Tag: Feathered

Spitfire Audio Jon Meyer The Feathered Flute KONTAKT


Free Download Spitfire Audio Jon Meyer The Feathered Flute KONTAKT | 1.25 GB
Written and created by Pianobook Artist – Jon Meyer. The Feathered Flute is a cinematic dreamscape generator of featherlike textures and undulating swells, carved from cedar in the Texas Hill country. An inspiring Native American flute library with additional ethereal textures, which sounds both haunting and beautiful.

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Feathered Gods and Fishhooks The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai’i, Revised Edition Ed 2


Free Download Patrick Vinton Kirch, "Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai’i, Revised Edition Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0824894499 | 2023 | 528 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian civilization from an archaeological perspective. This long-awaited revised edition now brings the field up to date, incorporating the results from hundreds of archaeological projects undertaken throughout the Hawaiian Islands over the past thirty-five years that have benefited from tremendous technological advancements, and presents an authoritative account of the origins and progression of Hawaiian culture prior to the arrival of Europeans. Generously illustrated, this revision includes dozens of new photographs and maps, along with a selection of color plates.

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Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents The Public Sculpture of El Tajín


Free Download Rex Koontz, "Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajín"
English | 2009 | pages: 152 | ISBN: 0292718993 | PDF | 25,7 mb
El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city’s singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the context of Mesoamerican history. In Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents, Rex Koontz undertakes the first extensive treatment of El Tajín’s iconography in over thirty years, allowing us to view its imagery in the broader Mesoamerican context of rising capitals and new elites during a period of fundamental historical transformations.

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