Note on Chronologies

Kubler, George

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Note on Chronologies

George Kubler

The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples

The tables seek to place sites and classes of objects in time: the criterion of selection is more by quality than quantity, and more by expressions than by serial events. All the placements prior to A.D. 1300 should be regarded as elastic at least in the degree required now by the margin of error used in radiocarbon measurements (± 200 years).

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George Kubler

PublisherYale University Press

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Note on Chronologies

Roman capitals = ethnic groups

Italic capitals = archaeological phases

Lower-case roman = places, areas

Lower-case italic = archaeological phases by sites

L. A. Pavlish and E. B. Banning, Am. A., XLV (1980), no. 2, 290, 297, report that direct detection of Carbon 14 atoms now can measure a radiocarbon age of about 75,000 years, from milligram samples, in minutes rather than days for 10,000-year-old samples. No dates relevant to this volume are as yet available.

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BOOKThe Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples

George Kubler

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123

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Yale University Press/Pelican History of Art

This important book examines the development of the principal styles of ancient American architecture, sculpture, and painting until the end of the Aztec and Inca empires in the sixteenth century. Written by esteemed scholar George Kubler, the volume aims to explain works of art as such, rather than dwelling upon those ideas about civilization that art is often made to illustrate in books of a more archaeological character. The Art and Architecture of Ancient America is arranged by geographical regions in three main divisions: Mexico, Central America and western South America. Architecture, sculpture, and painting occupy most of the volume, but town planning, pottery, textiles, and jewelry are also discussed. Many of the illustrations portray little known sites, buildings, and objects.

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George Kubler

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date November 1992 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300053258

EISBN 9780300225594

Illustrations 448

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