Modern Library, 2002. — 352 p. — (Modern Library Paperbacks). — ISBN: 978-0-307-56571-6. J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow...
Routledge, 2017. — 324 p. This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in...
Routledge, 2017. — 324 p. This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in...
The Great Courses, 2012. — 197 p. The dramatic terrain of South America is one of the great and thrilling frontiers of archaeology. Buried by the centuries on soaring mountain slopes and beneath arid deserts and lush jungles, the remains of extraordinary, majestic civilizations—many completely unknown until recent decades—are now coming to light and raising tantalizing...
The Great Courses, 2015. — 353 p. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands to settle stumbled on a group of independent city-states in Mesoamerica, a region extending for more than a thousand miles from the desert of northern Mexico to the rain forest of Central America. Sophisticated beyond the Spaniards’ wildest imaginings, these people...
Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Trustees for Harvard University, 1972. — 166 p. Robert Woods Bliss began collecting Pre-Columbian art because he was lured by the beauty of the materials, the fineness of the craftsmanship, and the fascination of the iconography of the first Pre-Columbian objects he saw. The Bliss Collection has been, since its beginning...
Springer, 2016. - 267 p. - (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening...
University of Texas Press, 1981. — 471 p. The sixteen-volume Handbook of Middle American Indians, completed in 1976, has been acclaimed the world over as the most valuable resource ever produced for those involved in the study of Mesoamerica. When it was determined in 1978 that the Handbook should be updated periodically, Victoria Reifler Bricker, well-known cultural...
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 502 p. In studies of ancient civilizations, the focus is often on the temples, palaces, and buildings created and then left behind, both because they survive and because of the awe they still inspire today. From the Mississippian mounds in the United States to the early pyramids of Peru, these monuments have been well-documented, but less...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. — 288 p. — (The World of Art Library). Pre-Columbian art is one of the richest and most rewarding subjects in the history of both art and archaeology. It is also one of the most remarkable, not only because of the extremely varied and often prodigious output it covers, but because all the great pre-Columbian artifacts were produced during centuries...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1968. — 144 p. — (Library of the Early Civilizations). When Columbus arrived in America in 1492 he found a culture possessing many features which the Spanish invaders understood: hierarchical states, rulers living in splendour, fine buildings, specialist craftsmen and a religion that dominated the lives of the population. Yet the Spaniards must have been...
Springer, 2007. — 694 p. — (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). The Amerindian (American Indian or Native American - reference to both North and South America) practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies has long intrigued both the research community as well as the public. As a subject that is both controversial and politically charged, it has...
Pantheon, 2018. — 288 p. From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. In Atlas of a Lost World , Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got...
Facts on File, 1986. — 240 p. — (Cultural atlas series). — ISBN: 0-8160-1199-0. In the 15th and 16th centuries European explorers "discovered" the native populations of the Americas. The encounter provoked inquiry and debate. Who were these peoples? Did they have souls? Where had they come from? In succeeding centuries an astounding range of cultures came to light—some extinct,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 213 c. — ISBN 9780806175935. В поисках первых американцев. Наука, Власть, Политика Who were the First Americans? Where did they come from? When did they get here? Are they the ancestors of modern Native Americans? These questions might seem straightforward, but scientists in competing fields have failed to convince one another with their...
New York: Schocken Books, 1974. — 621 p. Here is a collection of first hand records by 42 New World archaeologists with an interpretation of each selection by Leo Deuel. Together they form a cohesive, intriguing study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere. Andean South America. Alexander von Humboldt. On to Cajamarca. E. George Squier. Chimu and Moche. Hiram Bingham. The...
New York, NY: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004. — 640 p. : maps. Scientists not so long ago unanimously believed that people first walked to the New World from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge at the end of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago. But in the last ten years, new tools applied to old bones have yielded evidence that tells an entirely different story. In Bones ,...
University Press of Colorado, 2012. — 468 p. In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures - Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are...
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1973. — 93 p. — ISBN: 0-7167-0864-7. It is now thought possible that man lived in the Western Hemisphere as much as 100,000 years ago. By reading the articles in this collection, the student can trace the acceptance during the past two decades of increasingly earlier dates for the arrival of man in America. A reading of these articles...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2004. - 246 p.
Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the...
Thames and Hudson, 1991. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0-500-05062-7. In this compelling account of pre-Columbian America, the author weaves together history and mythology, archaeology and ethnography to create a magnificent chronological narrative of the rise and fall of America's ancient civilizations. With 180 illustrations, 16 in color. Introduction: the Enchanted Vision. The...
Thames and Hudson, 1987. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0-500-05045-7. Familiar as we are with air travel and instant communications, we may find it hard to imagine what it would be like to encounter a wholly new continent peopled by an unknown race. But that was the experience of the Spanish conquistadors in the New World nearly 500 years ago. Who, they wondered, were the mysterious...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 109 p. Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 2, Session XXV-3 L’art rupestre des Amériques a été produit à des époques et par des cultures très différentes, tant par les chasseurs cueilleurs pêcheurs que par les agriculteurs inscrits dans des sociétés villageoises ou étatiques. Chaque groupe ou société a...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 176 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 17). This volume draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian characterization, material application, and theoretical...
Thirty-fourth annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1912-1913. — Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922. — 281 p. The operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, were conducted in accordance with the act of Congress approved August 24, 1912, making appropriations for...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — x+386 p. — ISBN: 0-521-32773-3. When and now did people first colonize the Americas? How did village life and agriculture arise? Why did complex societies develop in certain regions? These are some of the questions discussed in this wide-ranging book, which explores the development of the prehistoric cultures of North, Central, and South...
Routledge, 2012. — 365 p. This book is the first to describe indigenous archaeology in Latin America for an English speaking audience. Eighteen chapters primarily by Latin American scholars describe relations between indigenous peoples and archaeology in the frame of national histories and examine the emergence of the native interest in their heritage. Relationships between...
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971. — 224 p. A revolutionary treatise by one of the world's most eminent scholars, Before Columbus provides startling new evidence linking ancient Mesoamerica with the civilizations of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Thoroughly documented, the culmination of a lifetime of research, the book vividly demonstrates that transoceanic travel across the...
Texas A&M University Press, 2014. — 573 p. — ISBN: 978-1-62349-192-5. As research continues on the earliest migration of modern humans into North and South America, the current state of knowledge about these first Americans is continually evolving. Especially with recent advances in human genomic studies, both of living populations and ancient skeletal remains, new light is...
University Alabama Press, 2005. — 240 p. This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today - politically, economically, culturally - if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world's other societies? It assumes that Columbus did not embark from Spain in 1492 and that no Europeans found or...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 384 p. This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, ethnography, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramics has been divided among these three disciplines, this volume shows that integrating approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American...
Abingdon, U.K., New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. — 217 pages : illustrations, maps. Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not...
Routledge, 2019. — 332 p. In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology, anthropology, economics and archaeology, this diverse...
University Press of Florida, 2011. — 264 p. This innovative collection of essays brings together archaeological research on French colonial sites from Maryland, South Carolina, the Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi Valley, the Caribbean, and French Guiana to explore the nature of French colonization. Specific contributions explore foodways, ceramics, plantations, architecture,...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 214 p. This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr., begins with a historigraphical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both...
Bear & Company, 2015. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-159143193X. The real history of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled to the Americas long before 1492. • Provides more than 300 photographs and drawings, including Celtic runes in New England, Gaelic inscriptions in Colorado, and Asian symbols in the West • Reinterprets many archaeological finds, such...
University of Michigan Press, 2009. — 281 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 46). With major differences in size, urban plans, and population density, the capitals of New World states had large heterogeneous societies, sometimes multiethnic and highly specialized, making these cities amazing backdrops for complex interactions. List of Illustrations List of Tables...
Second printing with revisions. — Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1973. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0-202-33027-3. Based on the chapter entitled Prehistoric New World cultural development , which is included in volume III of the History of mankind: cultural and scientific development. In this succinct, well-organized, and profusely illustrated history of the aboriginal settlement of...
Second Edition — Aldine Pullishing Co., 1979. — 220 p. The cultural parallels between widely separated but environmentally similar regions are often extraordinary, yet these parallels are discounted by anthropologists on the basis that they ignore a large mass of less similar data. Too often cultural parallels between distant regions have been taken for granted rather than...
Montreal: St. Remy Press; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1993. — 176 p. — (Exploring the Ancient World). — ISBN: 0-89599-035-0. The questions of who peopled the New World, when, and how, have generated much interest and considerable controversy for more than two centuries — theories argued by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries are still debated today. Even though, as...
University Press of Florida, 2007. — 288 p. Since the 1997 report of investigations into the Monte Verde site in Chile, there has been a surge of interest in early habitation sites and a polarization of opinion about the antiquity of humans in the Americas. While Clovis remains the earliest undisputed cultural complex in the New World and one of the fastest and most successful...
Routledge, 2021. — 578 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas brings together scholars from across the hemisphere to examine how archaeology can highlight the myriad ways that Indigenous people have negotiated colonial systems from the fifteenth century through to today. The contributions offer a comprehensive look at...
Routledge, 1999. — 300 pp. — ISBN: 0-203-98481-1. The archaeology of Latin America contains many unique features, both in focus and approach. This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by scholars native to the region, and it makes their collective expertise available to an Englishspeaking...
Routledge, 2018. — 482 p. Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology. The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and...
Springer, 1993. — 238 p. — (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). Incorporating both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, this volume reexamines the role played by native peoples in structuring interaction with Europeans. The more complete historical picture presented will be of interest to scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
Routledge, 2016. — 288 p. Lavishly illustrated in full color and black and white, this handsome reference provides a broad survey of the rich artistic heritage of pre-Columbian North and South America. Meticulously researched by archaeologists and anthropologists, the set features dramatic close-ups of engraved rock artifacts, cave paintings, pottery, and inscribed and sculpted...
Translation: Carys Evans-Corrales. — Sharp Reference, 1997. — 151 p. — ISBN: 0-7656-8034-3. Lavishly illustrated in full color and black and white, this handsome reference provides a broad survey of the rich artistic heritage of pre-Columbian North and South America. Covering the entire two continents from present-day Canada in the far north through Central America and down to...
Routledge, 2019. — 242 p. Vernacular Architecture in the Pre-Columbian Americas reveals the dynamism of the ancient past, where social relations and long-term history were created posthole by posthole, brick by brick. This collection shifts attention away from the elite and monumental architectural traditions of the region to instead investigate the creativity, subtlety and...
Getty Conservation Institute, 1994. - 437 p.
Archaeometry is the application of scientific methods and analyses to the study of culture in its archaeological context. Garnered from a conference called to study the material culture from North and South America, the book's twenty essays on a broad range of subjects represent the full scope of study in this field. They include...
National Museum of the American Indian, 2005. — 98 p. The museum’s holdings are rich in examples of Native ceramics from throughout the Western Hemisphere, stretching across forty centuries to the present day. In this book, four scholars introduce important and little-known ceramic figures and vessels representing the cultures of the Andes, Mexico, the American Southwest, and...
Springer, 2008. — 389 р.
Pre-Columbian Andean and Mesoamerican cultures have inspired a special fascination among historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, as well as the general public. As two of the earliest known and studied civilizations, their origin and creation mythologies hold a special interest. The existing and Pre-Columbian cultures from these regions are...
Oxford University Press, 2013. - 278 p. Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic manifestations, some representing primary deities, as in the case of Zeus and Jupiter in the Greco/Roman tradition, and Thor in Norse myth....
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 320 p. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people...
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 320 p. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people...
University of Texas Press, 2011. - 244 p. Shamanism--the practice of entering a trance state to experience visions of a reality beyond the ordinary and to gain esoteric knowledge--has been an important part of life for indigenous societies throughout the Americas from prehistoric times until the present. Much has been written about shamanism in both scholarly and popular...
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2001. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0-7922-7874-7. Who were the first americans? Where did they come from, and when? What do we know, or think we know, about their migrations, their ways of life, their villages, cities, and civilizations? These are just a few of the fascinating questions explored in this lavishly illustrated and informative...
Harper & Row, 1976. — 430 р. Probes the history, origins, and purpose of the pyramids in the Valley of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America, with emphasis on the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon near Mexico City. Recounts the history of these structures from their first sighting by Cortes as rubble-covered mounds through four centuries of efforts to solve the...
Collected works. — Cambridge: University of New Mexico Press and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1983. — 519 p. Foreword Introduction, Evon Z. Vogt and Richard M. Leventhal Settlement Pattern Themes Some New Themes in Settlement Pattern Research, Evon Z. Vogt Household Studies To the Salt of the Earth: Some Comments on Household Archaeology Among the Maya, William...
University of Texas Press, 1971. — 947 p. Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica comprises the tenth and eleventh volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). Volume editors of Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica are Gordon...
University of Texas Press, 1966. — 377 p. Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections is the fourth volume in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). Volume editors are Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002), Bowditch Professor of...
University of Texas Press, 1965. — 1098 p. Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica comprises the second and third volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002), Bowditch...
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966. — 525 p. — (Prentice-Hall Anthropology Series). This book has been written to introduce both the lay reader and the student to the broad field of American archaeology. The work is projected in two volumes: the present one, on North and Middle America, and a second, now in preparation, on South America. The Early Americans....
Paper Prepared to commemorate the Silver Anniversary of The Filson Club. — John P. Morton & Company: Louisville, Kentucky, 1910. — 343 p. — (Filson club publications No. 25). A History of what is known of their Lives and Habits, together with a description of their Implements and other Relics and of the Tumuli which have earned for them the designation of Mound Builders. In...
Сборник статей. — М.: Наука, 1990. — 272 с. — ISBN: 5-02-010000-5. В книге рассматривается древняя история аборигенного населения Латинской Америки: заселение региона, формирование производящей экономики, развитие древних цивилизаций вплоть до контактов с европейцами. Вместе с ведущими советскими американистами в сборнике принимают участие видные археологи Мексики, Колумбии,...
Сборник статей. — М.: Наука, 1990. — 272 с. В книге рассматривается древняя история аборигенного населения Латинской Америки: заселение региона, формирование производящей экономики, развитие древних цивилизаций вплоть до контактов с европейцами. Вместе с ведущими советскими американистами в сборнике принимают участие видные археологи Мексики, Колумбии, Эквадора, Венесуэлы,...
М.: ОГИ, 2007. — 360 с.: карты. — (Нация и культура / Новые исследования: Фольклор). — ISBN: 978-5-94282-285-9. В книге дан обзор истории заселения Америки от появления человека до эпохи европейских контактов. Использованы материалы археологии, этнографии, лингвистики, физической антропологии. Основное внимание уделено вопросам преемственности культурного развития в отдельных...
М.: ОГИ, 2007. — 195 с.: карты. — (Нация и культура / Новые исследования: Фольклор). В книге дан обзор истории заселения Америки от появления человека до эпохи европейских контактов. Использованы материалы археологии, этнографии, лингвистики, физической антропологии. Основное внимание уделено вопросам преемственности культурного развития в отдельных регионах от Арктики до...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2015. — 678 с. — (Archaeologica Varia). — ISBN: 978-5-4469-0650-5 Книга посвящена одной из главных проблем дописьменной истории — заселению человеком Нового Света, древнейшим археологическим памятникам Америки, связям культур и популяций Америки и Азии. Отечественному читателю впервые представлена полная сводка современных сведений на междисциплинарной...
СПб.: Нестор-История, 2015. — 678 с. — (Archaeologica Varia). — ISBN: 978-5-4469-0650-5 Книга посвящена одной из главных проблем дописьменной истории — заселению человеком Нового Света, древнейшим археологическим памятникам Америки, связям культур и популяций Америки и Азии. Отечественному читателю впервые представлена полная сводка современных сведений на междисциплинарной...
Научное издание. — 2-е изд. — СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2011. — 176 с., ил. — (Archaeologica Varia). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1117-0. Книга посвящена одной из основных проблем мировой истории ― заселению человеком Нового Света, древнейшим археологическим памятникам Америки, связям культур Сибири и Америки. Отечественному читателю впервые представлена полная сводка...
Научное издание. — 2-е изд. — СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2011. — 176 с., ил. — (Archaeologica Varia). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1117-0. Книга посвящена одной из основных проблем мировой истории ― заселению человеком Нового Света, древнейшим археологическим памятникам Америки, связям культур Сибири и Америки. Отечественному читателю впервые представлена полная сводка...
Научное издание. — 2-е изд. — СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2011. — 176 с., ил. — (Archaeologica Varia). — ISBN: 978-5-8465-1117-0. Книга посвящена одной из основных проблем мировой истории ― заселению человеком Нового Света, древнейшим археологическим памятникам Америки, связям культур Сибири и Америки. Отечественному читателю впервые представлена полная сводка...
Научно-популярное издание. — Новосибирск: Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН, 2014. — 124 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7803-0241-4. В книге рассматриваются ключевые проблемы происхождения первых американцев в контексте восприятия европейцами неевропейцев. В научно-популярной форме освещаются основные этапы изучения заселения Американского континента отечественными, североамериканскими...
Научно-популярное издание. — Новосибирск: Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН, 2014. — 124 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7803-0241-4. В книге рассматриваются ключевые проблемы происхождения первых американцев в контексте восприятия европейцами неевропейцев. В научно-популярной форме освещаются основные этапы изучения заселения Американского континента отечественными, североамериканскими...
Новосибирск: Институт археологии и этнографии Сибирского отделения РАН, 2013. — 145 с. В книге в популярной форме рассказывается об истории открытия и ранних этапах исследования наиболее значимых археологических памятников и комплексов на территории Северных Анд (Колумбия, Эквадор) и Центральной Америки (Панама, Никарагуа, Коста-Рика). В основу легли многочисленные книги и статьи...
თბილისი: მწიგნობარი, 2017. — 232 გვ. — (Archaeology of Pre-Columbian America). — ISBN: 978-9941-465-89-5. წინამდებარე წიგნი მოგვითხრობს ამერიკის უძველესი ცივილიზაციების შესახებ, მათ აღმოჩენასა და მკვლევარებზე. ზოგადადაა მოთხრობილი მეზოამერიკის და ანდების ცივილიზაციების ისტორია უძველესი დროიდან ესპანელების მიერ ამერიკის დაპყრობამდე. წიგნში მნიშვნელოვანი ყურადღება ეთმობა...
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