Join us at the SAAs in St. Louis – meet authors Karen Bruhns, Miriam Davis, Marcel Kornfeld, and Mary Lou Larson!!

Left Coast Press invites you to meet our authors and have your copies of their latest books signed! 

LOCATION: At the Left Coast Press Booth (Booth 417)

Faking the Ancient Andes and Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
Karen O. Bruhns and Nancy L. Kelker
Thursday, April 16: 10-11 am

Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean and Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker examine the phenomenon in these eye-opening volumes. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated centuries ago. More important, they describe the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system. Unique to this volume are biographies of several of the forgers, who describe their craft and how they are able to effectively fool connoisseurs and specialists. An important, accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud for archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike.

Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land
Miriam C. Davis
Friday, April 16: 10-11 am

Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. In the first full-length biography of Kenyon, Miriam Davis recounts not only her many achievements in the field but also her personal side, known to very few of her contemporaries. Her public side is a catalog of major successes: discovering the oldest city at Jericho with its amazing collection of plastered skulls; untangling the archaeological complexities of ancient Jerusalem and identifying the original City of