Handbook of South American archaeology
Handbook of South American Archaeology Edited by Helaine Silverman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA and William H. Isbell State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA The Handbook of South American Archaeology has been created as a major reference work for archaeologists working in South America, professors and their upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in South American archaeology courses including areal courses (Central Andes, North Andes, tropical lowlands), archaeologists working elsewhere in the world who want to learn about South American prehistory in a single volume. The contributions of this seminal handbook have been commissioned from leading local and global authorities on South America. Authors present the dynamic evolutionary processes of the ancient societies and principal geographical regions of the continent and consider issues such as environmental setting and ecological adaptations, social equality/inequality, identity formation, long-distance/intercultural interaction, religious systems and their material manifestations, ideological orientations, and political and economic organization as these developed over time. The volume is organized thematically to promote and facilitate geographical comparisons, notably between the Andes and greater Amazonia. The bibliography section of each chapter is a valuable research tool in itself for readers wishing to delve deeper into the particular topics under consideration. Of particular merit and originality is the final section dealing with the ethics and practice of archaeology in South America today with each contribution written by a local scholar. This edited work presents long-term research results while simultaneously highlighting the most exciting new research and greatest archaeological problems recently resolved or still awaiting solution. Chapters are written in accessible language and each contribution includes maps and many other figures and photographs to illustrate the text. Handbook of South American Archaeology belongs on the bookshelf of every archaeologists working or living in South American but also will be of interest to those who study larger anthropological issues - such as cultural adaptation and state formation - in the prehistoric and historic periods
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xxvi, 1191 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
9780387749068, 9780387752280, 9780387794075, 0387749063, 0387752285, 0387794077
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Introduction. Continental introduction / Helaine Silverman
Early occupations of South America. Profiles in Pleistocene history / Tom D. Dillehay ; Chinchorro culture : pioneers of the coast of the Atacama Desert / Bernardo T. Arriaza [and others] ; Early occupations in the Southern Cone / Luis Alberto Borrero ; The process of sedentism in northwestern South America / J. Scott Raymond
Environment and subsistence. Central Andean environments / Daniel H. Sandweiss and James B. Richardson III ; Plant domestication and the shift to agriculture in the Andes / Deborah M. Pearsall ; Animal domestication in South America / Peter W. Stahl ; High elevation foraging societies / Mark S. Aldenderfer ; Early fishing societies in western South America / Daniel H. Sandweiss ; Amazonia : the historical ecology of a domesticated landscape/ Clark L. Erickson ; The archaeology of agriculture in ancient Amazonia / José R. Oliver ; Agricultural earthworks on the French Guiana coast / Stéphen Rostain ; The pampas and campos of South America / Gustavo Politis
Lowland moundbuilders. Pre-Columbian mound complexes in the Upano River Valley, lowland Ecuador / Ernesto Salazar ; The archaeology of the Guianas : an overview / Stéphen Rostain ; Barrancoid and arauquinoid mound builders in coastal Suriname / Aad H. Versteeg ; Sambaqui (shell mound) societies of coastal Brazil / Maria Dulce Gaspar [and others]
Continental variations in non-state complexity. The nonagricultural chiefdoms of Marajó Island / Denise Pahl Schaan ; Ecology, ceramic chronology and distribution, long-term history, and political change in the Amazonian floodplain / Eduardo Góes Neves ; Chiefdoms of southwestern Colombia / Robert D. Drennan ; Late pre-Hispanic chiefdoms of northern Colombia and the formation of anthropogenic landscapes / Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo ; The prehistory of Venezuela
not necessarily an intermediate area / Rodrigo Navarrete ; The Ecuadorian formative / James A. Zeidler ; Early regional polities of coastal Ecuador / Maria A. Masucci ; Late pre-Hispanic polities of coastal Ecuador / Colin McEwan and Florencio Delgado-Espinoza ; Late pre-Hispanic chiefdoms of highland Ecuador / Tamara L. Bray ; The formative period in the Titicaca Basin / Christine A. Hastorf ; Paracas and Nasca : regional cultures on the south coast of Peru / Donald A. Proulx ; Social landscapes in pre-Inca northwestern Argentina / Juan B. Leoni and Félix A. Acuto
Demographic and cultural expansions. Early cultural complexity on the coast of Peru / Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski ; Andean urbanism / Krzysztof Makowski ; The Tupi expansion / Francisco Silva Noelli ; Life on the move : bioarchaeological contributions to the study of migration and diaspora communities in the Andes / Tiffiny A. Tung ; Chavín de Huántar and its sphere of influence / Richard L. Burger
States and empires of the central Andes. The Mochicas / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters and Santiago Uceda Castillo ; Wari and Tiwanaku : international identities in the central Andean middle horizon / William H. Isbell ; Between horizons : diverse configurations of society and power in the late pre-Hispanic central Andes / Jalh Dulanto ; The Chimú empire / Jerry D. Moore and Carol J. Mackey ; The Inca empire / R. Alan Covey ; The Inca khipu : knotted-cord record keeping in the Andes / Gary Urton ; Experiencing Inca domination in northwestern Argentina and the southern Andes / Félix A. Acuto ; Inter-zonal relationships in Ecuador / Francisco Valdez ; Cultural boundaries and crossings : Ecuador and Peru / Jean Guffroy ; Chachapoyas : cultural development at an Andean cloud forest crossroads / Warren B. Church and Adriana von Hagen ; The Llanos de Mojos / John H. Walker ; Amazonian mosaics : identity, interaction, and integration in the tropical forest / Michael J. Heckenberger ; The archaeology of northern Chile / Mario A. Rivera ; Interaction and social fields in San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile / Emily Stovel
Death practices and beliefs. Prehistoric funeral practices in the Brazilian Amazon : the Maracá urns / Vera Guapindaia ; Ancestor images in the Andes / George F. Lau ; Trophy head-taking and human sacrifice in Andean South America / John W. Verano
Ethics and practice in South American archaeology. Archaeology, globalization and the nation : appropriating the past in Ecuador / O. Hugo Benavides ; Cultural heritage management in Peru : current and future challenges / Alvaro Higueras ; The Bennett monolith : archaeological patrimony and cultural restitution in Bolivia / Isabel Scarborough ; Modernity and politics in Colombian archaeology / Cristóbal Gnecco ; From the erasure to the rewriting of Indigenous pasts : the troubled life of archaeology in Uruguay / Gustavo Verdesio ; Public archaeology and management of the Brazilian archaeological-cultural heritage / Rossano Lopes Bastos and Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Conclusion / William H. Isbell