Word: donnan
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...last two Marshall coaches, Jim Donnan and Bob Pruett, have made it a point to make Dawson feel welcome. Red was on the sidelines when the Herd won its national championship in '92, and this year Pruett invited him to be the honorary assistant coach for the season opener against West Virginia--the first time the two schools had met since...
...located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing the delicate objects of metal, shell and stone that gradually unraveled the mysteries surrounding the lost culture. Pre-Columbian expert Christopher Donnan, of the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the project: photographs of tomb objects were made and sent for comparative analysis to UCLA's Fowler Museum, which has more than 135,000 pictures of Moche artifacts in its archives...
...previously imagined that the Moche had amassed such riches or produced so powerful a ruling elite. Donnan compares interpreting the Moche with no information about Sipan's Senor to "trying to reconstruct ancient Egypt without knowing anything of the existence of the pharaohs." Our understanding of Moche social organization, religion, art and technology is now divided, says Alva, into periods he calls "before Sipan and after Sipan...
...Moche craftsmanship was found atop the royal corpse in Tomb 3, oldest of the chambers: on each of 10 gold beads is a spider with a human face etched on its back. "The Moche communicated very effectively through their artistic depictions in the absence of a writing system," observes Donnan. "We need to become more sophisticated in our ability to work with that kind of symbolism...