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Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
Faking Ancient Mesoamerica, Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomen, Faking Ancient Mesoamerica has a rating of 4 stars
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Faking Ancient Mesoamerica, Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomen, Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
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  • Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
  • Written by author Nancy L. Kelker
  • Published by Left Coast Press, December 2009
  • Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomen
  • This is an important accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud of Central Americafor archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike.
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Illustrations and Credits 6

Acknowledgments 9

Introduction 11

1 The Secret Lies of Fakes 15

2 Forgery Is Not New 31

3 The Nine Lives of Fakes 45

4 A Rogues' Gallery oh Forgers, Fakers, and Facilitators 59

5 Escaping De Landa's Bonfire of the Vanities 81

6 Between a Rock and a Hard Fake 111

7 Feat of Clay 129

8 The Lapidary's Lament 161

9 Skullduggery 191

10 Wooden Men, Golden Gods, and Tales on the Wall 203

Epilogue: A Word to the Wise 219

Notes 225

References 229

Index 245

About the Authors 256


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