Author: Sarah Osgood Brooks
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Prehistoric Agricultural Terraces in the Río Japo Basin, Colca Valley, Peru
Author: Sarah Osgood Brooks
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Ancient People of the Andes
Author: Michael A. Malpass
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703935
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing system, making archaeology the only way we know about most of the prehispanic societies of the Andes. The earliest Spaniards on the continent provided first-person accounts of the latest of those societies, and, as descendants of the Inkas became literate, they too became a source of information. Both ethnohistory and archaeology have limitations in what they can tell us, but when we are able to use them together they are complementary ways to access knowledge of these fascinating cultures. Malpass focuses on large anthropological themes: why people settled down into agricultural communities, the origins of social inequalities, and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity. Ample illustrations, including eight color plates, visually document sites, societies, and cultural features. Introductory chapters cover archaeological concepts, dating issues, and the region's climate. The subsequent chapters, divided by time period, allow the reader to track changes in specific cultures over time.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703935
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing system, making archaeology the only way we know about most of the prehispanic societies of the Andes. The earliest Spaniards on the continent provided first-person accounts of the latest of those societies, and, as descendants of the Inkas became literate, they too became a source of information. Both ethnohistory and archaeology have limitations in what they can tell us, but when we are able to use them together they are complementary ways to access knowledge of these fascinating cultures. Malpass focuses on large anthropological themes: why people settled down into agricultural communities, the origins of social inequalities, and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity. Ample illustrations, including eight color plates, visually document sites, societies, and cultural features. Introductory chapters cover archaeological concepts, dating issues, and the region's climate. The subsequent chapters, divided by time period, allow the reader to track changes in specific cultures over time.
Tenahaha and the Wari State
Author: Justin Jennings
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Tenahaha and the Wari State presents new findings and interpretations that challenge existing theories of Wari state dominance during the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) in Peru.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Tenahaha and the Wari State presents new findings and interpretations that challenge existing theories of Wari state dominance during the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) in Peru.
Journal of Field Archaeology
Author: Association for Field Archaeology
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology–III
Author: Alexei Vranich
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703785
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The focus of this volume is the northern Titicaca Basin, an area once belonging to the quarter of the Inka Empire called Collasuyu. The original settlers around the lake had to adapt to living at more than 12,000 feet, but as this volume shows so well, this high-altitude environment supported a very long developmental sequence.
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703785
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The focus of this volume is the northern Titicaca Basin, an area once belonging to the quarter of the Inka Empire called Collasuyu. The original settlers around the lake had to adapt to living at more than 12,000 feet, but as this volume shows so well, this high-altitude environment supported a very long developmental sequence.
An Archaeo-history of Andean Community and Landcape
Author: Steven Arlyn Wernke
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Category : Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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People in the Mountains: Current Approaches to the Archaeology of Mountainous Landscapes
Author: Andrzej Pelisiak
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784918180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book studies current approaches to the archaeology of mountainous landscapes, presenting research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions it incorporates archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784918180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book studies current approaches to the archaeology of mountainous landscapes, presenting research results from different scientific contexts. To discuss these issues, and to study different aspects of human activity in the mountains and adjacent regions it incorporates archaeological, botanical, zooarchaeological and ethnological information.
Andean Past
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Category : Andes Region
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Andes Region
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Foundations of Power in the Prehispanic Andes
Author: Kevin J. Vaughn
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Investigates how the issue of power is approached by scholars of the South American Andes Represent a wide range of regional, temporal, methodological, and theoretical perspectives on the prehispanic Andes from the Preceramic Period (representing the earliest sedentary societies) through the Late Horizon (the expansionary phase of the Inca Empire) Brings together an array of approaches-both theoretical and methodological--as they are currently being employed by archaeologists in the Andes Enriches the study of the emergence of complex societies, the origins of the state, and dynamics of sociopolitical organization in well-known societies like the Chav ́ýn, Nasca, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca and in less-well-known groups, such as the pre- and post-Tiwanaku societies of the altiplano and the Late Intermediate Period groups of the south coast of Peru
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Investigates how the issue of power is approached by scholars of the South American Andes Represent a wide range of regional, temporal, methodological, and theoretical perspectives on the prehispanic Andes from the Preceramic Period (representing the earliest sedentary societies) through the Late Horizon (the expansionary phase of the Inca Empire) Brings together an array of approaches-both theoretical and methodological--as they are currently being employed by archaeologists in the Andes Enriches the study of the emergence of complex societies, the origins of the state, and dynamics of sociopolitical organization in well-known societies like the Chav ́ýn, Nasca, Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inca and in less-well-known groups, such as the pre- and post-Tiwanaku societies of the altiplano and the Late Intermediate Period groups of the south coast of Peru
Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Author: Alexei Vranich
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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