Essays on archaeology and ethnology of Peruvian Andes: Ensayos sobre arqueología y etnología de los Andes peruanos

The Author is a geologist and archaeologist, researcher of the Andes and Latin Americanist, and a diplomat; a Habilitated Doctor of Humanities (archaeology); Chief of the Department of Latin America at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; in the years 1992-1997, the Ambassador of Poland to Venezue...

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1. Verfasser: Krzanowski, Andrzej 1947- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Krakow Jagiellonian University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:The Author is a geologist and archaeologist, researcher of the Andes and Latin Americanist, and a diplomat; a Habilitated Doctor of Humanities (archaeology); Chief of the Department of Latin America at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; in the years 1992-1997, the Ambassador of Poland to Venezuela and Guyana, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Grenada. Since 1998, the Honorary Consul of Peru in Cracow. A founding member and the long-term President of the Polish Society for Latin American Studies. An Honorary Member of the Institute of Andean Studies in Berkeley (USA).<br>He has authored and co-authored nine books devoted to the archaeology and history of the Andes. He is the first Pole to have conducted archaeological research in the Andes (Peru 1972). He led the 1978-1987 Polish Scientific Expedition to the Andes, which carried out interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geography, ethnography) on settlement in the high-mountain region of Huaura-Checras. Since 2009, he has been focusing on pre-Columbian fortifications on the Peruvian Central Coast.<br>This volume contains revised and updated re-editions of articles by Andrzej Krzanowski coming from different periods of his 40-year-long research activity in Peru, from the first expedition to the Huaura Valley up to the most recent research on the Central Coast
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ISBN:9788323395614