Magdalena de Cao
Subtitle: An Early Colonial Town on the North Coast of Peru
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, Publications Department; Peabody Museum Press; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780873652162
Subjects: America, history
Description: "During the early Colonial Period in the Americas, as an ancient way of life ended and the modern world began, indigenous peoples and European invaders confronted, resisted, and compromised with one another. Yet archaeological investigations of this complex era are rare. Magdalena de Cao is an exception: the first in-depth and heavily illustrated examination of what life was like at one culturally mixed town and church complex during the early Colonial Period in Peru"--