Patrick H Carmichael
Biographic Data
| ID | 6049287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick H Carmichael |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick H |
| FAMILY NAME | Carmichael |
| SIGNATURE | CARMICHAEL P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent researcher |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Proto-Nasca Iconography
Nasca Pottery Production
Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting aesthetic qualities, the actual production of Nasca pottery is little explored. In recent years the principal contributions have come from characterization studies of paste and mineral paints, along with fresh perspectives on the social context. This article reviews the work…
Stages, periods, epochs, and phases in Paracas and Nasca chronology
Chronology on the south coast of Peru is adrift. Researchers have a choice of using developmental stages or historical periods. Increasingly, fuzzy thinking has led to the publication of chronologies employing both stages and periods in the same chart. Authors seem unaware that stages and periods are fundamentally different ways of organizing the past, underpinned by different sets of assumptions which ask different questions. The current work is…
Nasca origins and Paracas progenitors
The origins and endings of Nasca culture lie with the appearance, florescence, and termination of Nasca religion (south-coastal Peru, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 600). Elaborate, polychrome iconography on ceramic vessels reveals a pantheon of supernatural creatures representing the materialized ideology of Nasca worldview. This article takes an iconographic approach to examine the origins of Nasca religion by tracing the central …
Proto-Nasca art and antaras
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography. As a contribution to archaeology and art history, this article re-invigorates the approach by demonstrating methods an…
Coastal but not littoral
We examine the contribution of marine resources to the Nasca dietary economy (Early Intermediate Period, circa 100 B.C.–A.D. 600, Peruvian south coast) through ceramic iconography, settlement patterns, maritime subsistence technology, fish and shell remains, and stable isotope analysis. Each data set has limitations but, when combined, a consistent pattern emerges. Although the rich marine biomass of the Peru Current offers potential for huge foo…
Nasca Pottery Construction
Coastal but not littoral
We examine the contribution of marine resources to the Nasca dietary economy (Early Intermediate Period, circa 100 B.C.–A.D. 600, Peruvian south coast) through ceramic iconography, settlement patterns, maritime subsistence technology, fish and shell remains, and stable isotope analysis. Each data set has limitations but, when combined, a consistent pattern emerges. Although the rich marine biomass of the Peru Current offers potential for huge foo…
Stages, periods, epochs, and phases in Paracas and Nasca chronology
Chronology on the south coast of Peru is adrift. Researchers have a choice of using developmental stages or historical periods. Increasingly, fuzzy thinking has led to the publication of chronologies employing both stages and periods in the same chart. Authors seem unaware that stages and periods are fundamentally different ways of organizing the past, underpinned by different sets of assumptions which ask different questions. The current work is…
Nasca Pottery Construction
Nasca origins and Paracas progenitors
The origins and endings of Nasca culture lie with the appearance, florescence, and termination of Nasca religion (south-coastal Peru, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 600). Elaborate, polychrome iconography on ceramic vessels reveals a pantheon of supernatural creatures representing the materialized ideology of Nasca worldview. This article takes an iconographic approach to examine the origins of Nasca religion by tracing the central …
Proto-Nasca art and antaras
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography. As a contribution to archaeology and art history, this article re-invigorates the approach by demonstrating methods an…
Nasca Pottery Production
Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting aesthetic qualities, the actual production of Nasca pottery is little explored. In recent years the principal contributions have come from characterization studies of paste and mineral paints, along with fresh perspectives on the social context. This article reviews the work…
Nasca Pottery Construction
Coastal but not littoral
We examine the contribution of marine resources to the Nasca dietary economy (Early Intermediate Period, circa 100 B.C.–A.D. 600, Peruvian south coast) through ceramic iconography, settlement patterns, maritime subsistence technology, fish and shell remains, and stable isotope analysis. Each data set has limitations but, when combined, a consistent pattern emerges. Although the rich marine biomass of the Peru Current offers potential for huge foo…
Proto-Nasca art and antaras
The Dawson Nasca pottery seriation has not been updated since 1970, and it was never published in its entirety. An elusive “master sequence” based primarily on whole pots, which bore limited relevance to field situations, dissuaded recent generations of south-coast researchers from the study of ceramic chronology and iconography. As a contribution to archaeology and art history, this article re-invigorates the approach by demonstrating methods an…
Nasca origins and Paracas progenitors
The origins and endings of Nasca culture lie with the appearance, florescence, and termination of Nasca religion (south-coastal Peru, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 B.C.–A.D. 600). Elaborate, polychrome iconography on ceramic vessels reveals a pantheon of supernatural creatures representing the materialized ideology of Nasca worldview. This article takes an iconographic approach to examine the origins of Nasca religion by tracing the central …
Stages, periods, epochs, and phases in Paracas and Nasca chronology
Chronology on the south coast of Peru is adrift. Researchers have a choice of using developmental stages or historical periods. Increasingly, fuzzy thinking has led to the publication of chronologies employing both stages and periods in the same chart. Authors seem unaware that stages and periods are fundamentally different ways of organizing the past, underpinned by different sets of assumptions which ask different questions. The current work is…
Nasca Pottery Production
Nasca polychrome pottery is renowned for the variety of vessel shapes painted in vivid colors with fantastic creatures from Nasca cosmology. But for all its fame and riveting aesthetic qualities, the actual production of Nasca pottery is little explored. In recent years the principal contributions have come from characterization studies of paste and mineral paints, along with fresh perspectives on the social context. This article reviews the work…
Proto-Nasca Iconography
Archaeology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Iconography (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works) · Pottery (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (2 works)