Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas

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From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of essential individuals. These works in stone, ceramic, wood, and metal range from highly abstracted, minimalist representations of temples and houses to elaborate complexes populated with figures, conveying a wealthy sense of ancient ritual and day by day life. Despite the fact that described as models, these effigies were created not such a lot as reflections or prototypes of existing structures, but reasonably as critical, conceptual components of funerary practice and beliefs about an afterlife. 
 
Design for Eternity is the first publication in English to explore these architectural works, providing new insights into ancient American design and the way it reflected the practices of day by day life. The vivid illustrations and texts focal point on architectural representation, in addition to the role these intriguing sculptures played in mediating relationships a number of the living, the dead, and the divine. 
 

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