title: A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography: Reading a Culture through Its Art
author:  Donald A. Proulx 
description: &#8220;The art of ancient Peru is spectacular, and of all the beautiful Central Andean styles, Nasca pottery is without peer. In this comprehensive volume Donald Proulx, the leading authority on Nasca ceramic iconography, presents his definitive statement on this extraordinary art through sound scholarship and a cautious, rigorous, and carefully explained methodology. The volume excels for its detailed description of the Nasca ceramic style (forms, iconography, phases), stimulating interpretation of the iconography, penetrating linkage of the pots and their iconography to the archaeologically known Nasca society, and diachronic treatment of the evolution of Nasca art and society. This will be a foundational text for many decades of future research.&#8221;---Helaine Silverman, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
zlib_text: A Sourcebook of  
  Nasca Ceramic  
  Iconography
  Reading a Culture 
  Through Its Art
  Donald A. Proulx
  
  a sourcebook of nasca ceramic iconography
  
  university of iowa press
  donald a. proulx
  A Sourcebook of 
  Reading a Culture  
  through Its Art
  
  Nasca Ceramic Iconography
  
  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 
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