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Chapter 1 - Still a New World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2024

Karen Olsen Bruhns
Karen Olsen Bruhns
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San Francisco State University
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South America was cut off from Eurasia for some 15,000 years and is generally ignored by North Americans and Europeans in any manner but superficial tourism. Yet the separate development of such features of civilization as agriculture, monumental architecture, conquest states and elite art allow us to test our own, Eurasian centric views, of what is a civilization and how do they arise.

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Ancient South America , pp. 1 - 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Still a New World
  • Karen Olsen Bruhns, San Francisco State University
  • Book: Ancient South America
  • Online publication: 10 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511843006.002
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  • Still a New World
  • Karen Olsen Bruhns, San Francisco State University
  • Book: Ancient South America
  • Online publication: 10 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511843006.002
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  • Still a New World
  • Karen Olsen Bruhns, San Francisco State University
  • Book: Ancient South America
  • Online publication: 10 May 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511843006.002
Available formats
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