Alan Grinnell

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Alan Grinnell has been on the faculty of the University of California Los Angeles since 1964, where he is now a Distinguished Research Professor and the Associate Dean of Life Sciences emeritus. His interest in ancient American cultures led to his being named a research associate of UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History in 1990.

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Books by Alan Grinnell

Painting the Cosmos

Art and Iconography of the Ceramics of Ancient Panama

By Alan Grinnell

The result of decades of study, Alan Grinnell’s Painting the Cosmos presents the spectacular and underappreciated art of Panama and its revealing iconography. Emphasizing brightly painted polychrome designs with complex iconography on myriad ceramic forms, the art of Central Panama (ca. 200 BCE–1...

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