Lost Worlds of South America

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Call Number: DVD 980.01 Ba Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Course no. 3120."
Four videodiscs in one container (19 cm.)
Course guidebook includes professor biography, course scope, lecture outlines and notes, and bibliography (p. 180-189).
Disc 1. South America's lost cradle of civilization -- Discovering Peru's earliest cities -- South America's first people -- Ceramics, textiles, and organized states -- Chavín and the rise of religious authority -- Cupisnique to Salinar-- elite rulers and war -- Disc 2. Paracas-- mummies, shamans, and severed heads -- The Nazca lines and underground channels -- The Moche-- pyramids, gold, and warriors -- The Moche-- richest tombs in the world -- The Moche-- drugs, sex, music, and puppies -- Enigmatic Tiwanaku by Lake Titicaca -- Disc 3. The Amazon-- civilization lost in the jungle -- The Wari-- foundations of the Inca Empire? -- The Chimú-- empire of the northern coast -- The Sican-- goldsmiths of the Northern coast -- The Inca origins-- mythology v. archaeology -- Cuzco and the Tawantinsuyu Empire -- Disc 4. The Inca-- from raiders to empire -- The Inca-- gifts of the empire -- The Khipu-- language hidden in knots -- Machu Picchu and the sacred valley -- Spanish contact-- Pizarro conquers the Inca -- Remnants of the past-- Andean culture today.
24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture by Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center.
DVD.

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