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Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction | |
Continental Introduction | p. 3 |
Early Occupations of South America | |
Profiles in Pleistocene History | p. 29 |
Chinchorro Culture: Pioneers of the Coast of the Atacama Desert | p. 45 |
Early Occupations in the Southern Cone | p. 59 |
The Process of Sedentism in Northwestern South America | p. 79 |
Environment and Subsistence | |
Central Andean Environments | p. 39 |
Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes | p. 105 |
Animal Domestication in South America | p. 121 |
High Elevation Foraging Societies | p. 131 |
Early Fishing Societies in Western South America | p. 145 |
Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape | p. 157 |
The Archaeology of Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia | p. 185 |
Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast | p. 217 |
The Pampas and Campos of South America | p. 235 |
Lowland Moundbuilders | |
Precolumbian Mound Complexes in the Upano River Valley, Lowland Ecuador | p. 263 |
The Archaeology of the Guianas: An Overview | p. 279 |
Barrancoid and Arauquinoid Moundbuilders in Coastal Suriname | p. 303 |
Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil | p. 319 |
Continental Variations in Non-State Complexity | |
The Nonagricultural Chiefdoms of Marajo Island | p. 339 |
Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-term History, and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain | p. 359 |
Chiefdoms of Southwestern Colombia | p. 381 |
Late Pre-hispanic Chiefdoms of Northern Colombia and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes | p. 405 |
The Prehistory of Venezuela - Not Necessarily an Intermediate Area | p. 429 |
The Ecuadorean Formative | p. 459 |
Early Regional Polities of Coastal Ecuador | p. 489 |
Late Pre-hispanic Polities of Coastal Ecuador | p. 505 |
Late Pre-hispanic Chiefdoms of Highland Ecuador | p. 527 |
The Formative Period in the Titicaca Basin | p. 545 |
Paracas and Nasca: Regional Cultures on the South Coast of Peru | p. 563 |
Social Landscapes in Pre-Inca Northwestern Argentina | p. 587 |
Demographic and Cultural Expansions | |
Early Cultural Complexity on the Coast of Peru | p. 607 |
Andean Urbanism | p. 633 |
The Tupi Expansion | p. 659 |
Life on the Move: Bioarchaeological Contriubtions to the Study of Migration and Diaspora Communities in the Andes | p. 671 |
Chavin de Huantar and Its Sphere of Influence | p. 681 |
States and Empires of the Central Andes | |
The Mochicas | p. 707 |
Wari and Tiwanaku: International Identities in the Central Andean Middle Horizon | p. 731 |
Between Horizons: Diverse Configurations of Society and Power in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Andes | p. 761 |
The Chimu Empire | p. 783 |
The Inca Empire | p. 809 |
The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord Record Keeping in the Andes | p. 831 |
Experiencing Inca Domination in Northwestern Argentina and the Southern Andes | p. 845 |
Interactions | |
Inter-zonal Relationships in Ecuador | p. 865 |
Cultural Boundaries and Crossings: Eduador and Peru | p. 889 |
Chachapoyas: Cultural Development at an Andean Cloud Forest Crossroads | p. 903 |
The Llanos de Mojos | p. 927 |
Amazonian Mosaics: Identity, Interaction, and Integration in the Tropical Forest | p. 941 |
The Archaeology of Northern Chile | p. 963 |
Interaction and Social Fields in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile | p. 979 |
Death Practices and Beliefs | |
Prehistoric Funeral Practices in the Brazilian Amazon: The Maraca Urns | p. 1005 |
Ancestor Images in the Andes | p. 1027 |
Trophy Head-Taking and Human Sacrifice in Andean South America | p. 1047 |
Ethics and Practice in South American Archaeology | |
Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador | p. 1063 |
Cultural Heritage Management in Peru: Current and Future Challenges | p. 1073 |
The Bennett Monolith: Archaeological Patrimony and Cultural Restitution in Bolivia | p. 1089 |
Modernity and Politics in Colombian Archaeology | p. 1103 |
From the Erasure to the Rewriting of Indigenous Pasts: The Troubled Life of Archaeology in Uruguay | p. 1115 |
Public Archaeology and Management of the Brazilian Archaeological-Cultural Heritage | p. 1127 |
Conclusion | |
Conclusion | p. 1137 |
Index | p. 1159 |
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