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Technical Evidence for Temporal Placement: Sculpted Adobe Friezes of Chan Chan, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Joanne Pillsbury
Joanne Pillsbury*
Affiliation:
Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
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Abstract

Recent research on the technical aspects of the architectural reliefs at the site of Chan Chan, Peru, has yielded new evidence with which to assess conflicting relative sequences for the monumental compounds of the imperial city.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 267: Symposium J – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III , 1992 , 989
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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