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A foundational resource for Isthmo-Colombian material culture

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Colin McEwan & John W. Hoopes (ed.). 2021. Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: toward an integrated approach. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press; 978-0-88402-470-5 hardback $75.
Colin McEwan & John W. Hoopes (ed.). 2021. Pre-Columbian art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press; 978-0-88402-469-9 hardback $95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2022

Julia Burtenshaw
Julia Burtenshaw*
Affiliation:
Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (✉ jburtenshaw@lacma.org)
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As the fifth and final volume in a series of publications dedicated to the description and study of the pre-Columbian collection at Dumbarton Oaks (beginning with Andean art at Dumbarton Oaks in 1996; Hill Boone 1996), Pre-Columbian art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks and its companion volume, Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: toward an integrated approach, lend new meaning to the phrase ‘going out with a bang’, with a combined 1262 pages and over 30 separate essays. Clearly an enormous undertaking, these books are the outcome of countless collaborations, technical analyses and workshops over many years, gathering the participation of an impressive number of scholars from all over the Americas. The sheer amount of data and detail presented in these volumes, as well as updated topics for discussion and interpretation, make them an absolutely fundamental resource for any scholar of the region.

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Antiquity , Volume 96 , Issue 389 , October 2022 , pp. 1337 - 1340
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.

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Boone, Hill, E. (ed.). 1996. Andean art at Dumbarton Oaks. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
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