Precolumbian Gold: Technology, Style and Iconography

By: Colin McEwan

Publishing papers from an international conference held in May 1996 at the Museum of Mankind to mark the opening of the exhibition The Gilded Image: PreColumbian Gold from South and Central America, this text includes essays on gold funerary offerings from excavations at Batan Grande, Peru; the description of recently discovered Malagana goldwork from Columbia; and an accout of gold found in archaeological contexts from Panama.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714125342
• ISBN13: 9780714125343
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: BRITISH MUSEUM
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.