Lost worlds of South America
By: Professor Edwin Barnhart, Maya Exploration Center
Contributors: Teaching Company; Maya Exploration Center
Series: The great courses. History. Ancient history; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781598039108; 9781629971582; 9781598039115
Subjects: Civilization; Antiquities; History
Description: Antiquity, period art and lost civilizations in pre-hispanic South America are analysed.
Notes: "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).

24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture by Professor Edwin Barnhart, Director of the Maya Exploration Center.

DVD format.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1.; title: South America's lost cradle of civilization --; title: Discovering Peru's earliest cities --; title: South America's first people --; title: Ceramics, textiles, and organized states --; title: Chavín and the rise of religious authority --; title: Cupisnique to Salinar-- elite rulers and war.; title: Disc 2.; title: Paracas-- mummies, shamans, and severed heads --; title: The Nazca lines and underground channels --; title: The Moche-- pyramids, gold, and warriors --; title: The Moche-- richest tombs in the world --; title: The Moche-- drugs, sex, music, and puppies --; title: Enigmatic Tiwanaku by Lake Titicaca.; title: Disc 3.; title: The Amazon-- civilization lost in the jungle --; title: The Wari-- foundations of the Inca Empire? --; title: The Chimú-- empire of the northern coast --; title: The Sican-- goldsmiths of the Northern coast --; title: The Inca origins-- mythology v. archaeology --; title: Cuzco and the Tawantinsuyu Empire.; title: Disc 4.; title: The Inca-- from raiders to empire --; title: The Inca-- gifts of the empire --; title: The Khipu-- language hidden in knots --; title: Machu Picchu and the sacred valley --; title: Spanish contact-- Pizarro conquers the Inca --; title: Remnants of the past-- Andean culture today.