Unexpected Faces in Ancient America, 1500 B.C. -A.D. 1500: The Historical Testimony of Pre-Columbian Artists
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1975.
First edition, first printing. xv, [i], 240 pp. Bound in publisher's brown paper boards over red cloth with spine lettered in black. Copiously illustrated with photographs of terracotta sculptures, stone reliefs, etc. Light foxing to top edge, else Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor soiling, one tape repair at verso. The German-Mexican anthropologist and art historian's collection of speculative essays arguing that, contrary to established archaeology, Semitic and African cultural subgroups occupied ancient Pre-Columbian America. Through the examination of skillfully produced terracotta figurines and sculptures von Wuthenau argues that the ancient continent was ethnically heterogeneous by comparing and contrasting racial features to art produced prior to European colonization in the 15th century. Long out of print.
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