Impresión P.A.P., 1999. — 189 p. Tiwanaku’s zenith took place between the fifth and tenth centuries of our era, five centuries of extraordinary achievements that haracterized the evolutionary trajectory of one of the most outstanding civilizations of the prehispanic world. Tiwanaku still plays a pivotal role in Andean cosmogony. It is still part of a plethora of myths that...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 222 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 27). El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales...
BAR Publishing, 2008. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 10784; South American Archaeology Series 4). La Cerámica Yampara Presto Puno - Orlando Tapia Matamala La Política Imperial Inka en el Norte de Chuquisaca: Cambios y Reestructuraciones en la Capital Yampara de Quila – Quila, Bolivia - María del Pilar Lima Torrez Identidad vs. Estilo: Los Yamparaes y la Ocupación...
University Of Iowa Press, 1993. — 188 p. Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes is a comprehensive and challenging look at the burgeoning field of Andean domestic architecture. Aldenderfer and fourteen contributors use domestic architecture to explore two major topics in the prehistory of the south-central Andes: the development of...
University Of Iowa Press, 1998. — 344 p. All previous books dealing with prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the high Andes have treated ancient mountain populations from a troglodyte's perspective, as if they were little different from lowlanders who happened to occupy jagged terrain. Early mountain populations have been transformed into generic foragers because the basic nature of...
University of New Mexico Press, 2004. — 224 p. The Caste War of Yucatan (1847-1901) is widely regarded as the most successful Indian rebellion in the New World. An attempt by the Maya to rid themselves of foreign domination and revitalize their traditional culture, the conflict led to successful agrarian reform and the reassertion of traditional land use by the Maya. It also...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 448 p. This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its unique capacity to link local practices...
University of New Mexico Press, 2005. — 272 p. In this volume, thirteen anthropological archaeologists working in historical time frames in Mesoamerica, including editors Susan Kepecs and Rani Alexander, break down the artificial barrier between archaeology and history by offering new material evidence of the transition from native-ruled, prehispanic society to the age of Spanish...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 296 p. — (BAR International Series 2969/Archaeology of Prehistoric Art 2). As landscape art, the rock art of the central Andes offers clues regarding relationships between ancestor veneration and the negotiation of rights to water. To understand these relationships this book focuses on a large complement of rock art situated in highland Ancash, Peru,...
University Press of Florida, 2011. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-813035-26-0. "Using a bold combination of surface survey, excavation, and cutting-edge GIS modeling, Arkush examines the social conditions that existed in the Andes during this period of unprecedented regional conflict and provides critical insights into the culture of war which existed at this time."–Brian S. Bauer,...
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 2006. — 112 p. Representación volumétrica de dos tejedoras, cultura Chancay. En memoria de John Víctor Murra (1916 - 2006). Presentación – índice Tejidos precolombinos en el norte de Chile. Carole Sinclaire A. Volúmenes textiles: Recreación para el ritual. Soledad Hoces de la Guardia Ch. y Paulina Brugnoli B. Chimú: Sofisticadas imágenes de...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2007. — 147 p. — (Monographs 57). Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known concerning its pre-Inca inhabitants. Until recently it was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages along the valley floor (ca. 1000 BC) and...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2015. — 214 p. — ( Monograph 81). The sites of Vitcos and Espíritu Pampa are two of the most important Inca cities within the remote Vilcabamba region of Peru. The province has gained notoriety among historians, archaeologists and other students of the Inca, since it was from here that the last independent Incas waged a nearly forty...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2010. — 221 p. — ( Monograph 68). In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program of expansion. Conquering a host of smaller polities, their army had advanced well inside the territory...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2004. — 240 p. Beginning in 1994, the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka conducted a complete survey of the Islands of the Sun and Moon in southern Lake Titicaca, along with test excavations of important Inca, Tiwanaku, and pre-Tiwanaku sites. This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important locations in the...
Springer, 2021. — 386 p. This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of these practices in hunter-gatherer, shepherd and farmer societies. From the...
Springer, 2021. — 386 p. This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of these practices in hunter-gatherer, shepherd and farmer societies. From the...
Springer, 2021. — 386 p. This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of these practices in hunter-gatherer, shepherd and farmer societies. From the...
Göteborg University, Department of Archaeology / Etnografiska museet, 1998. — 224 p. The present work was originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation to the Department of Archaeology at Göteborg University, in June of 1998 (Bengtsson 1998). Fieldwork was carried out in the years 1983, 1985, 1986, and 1989. It was concentrated in the district of Ollantaytambo, which presents...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. — xvi + 211 p. — ISBN: 0-292-70893-9. Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper...
Springer, 2024. — 442 p. — (The Latin American Studies Book Series). This volume includes a selection of papers derived from the IX Conference of the Pampas region of Argentina, held virtually in 2021 in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and organized by the National University of Mar del Plata. Located in the southern cone of South America, the Pampas are vast plain...
Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2015. — xviii, 403 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60732-317-4. In this edited volume, Andean wak'as idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — In this edited volume, Andean wak'as idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — In this edited volume, Andean wak'as idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 485 p. Ancient South America , 2nd edition features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions Isolated for all of prehistory and much of history, the continent witnessed the rise of cultures and advanced civilizations rivalling those of Europe, Asia, and Africa....
Routledge, 2012. — 224 p. Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 258 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 26). As part of a series of research projects on the Archaeology of hunter-gatherers societies in the Southern Pampean Hills this presents, among other things, the study of various aspects of the organization of lithic technology and strategies for the use of lithic resources by prehistoric populations. This is...
University of New Mexico Press, 2016. — 280 p. Andean pastoralism has long been considered a unique form of animal husbandry that is not comparable to Old World nomadic traditions. Recent archeological research has revealed that camelid pastoralism (the herding of llamas and alpacas) evolved independently in the New World. The essays in this book explore the archaeology of...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 114 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 24). This book collects the contributions to the symposium "The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina" that was held in Buenos Aires, for celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species" CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: IS...
Museo de Arte de Lima, 2009. — 324 p. De lo privado a lo público : la formación de colecciones precolombinas en el MALI - Cecilia Pardo La arqueología del valle de Jequetepeque y la colección Rodríguez Razzetto - Luis Jaime Castillo La cultura Cupisnique a partir de los datos arqueológicos de Puémape - Carlos G. Elera El estilo Mochica Temprano del valle de Jequetepeque -...
Editorial Universo, 1977. — 369 p. En vía de motivación debo hacer, en primer lugar, una salvedad: el lector, en cada párrafo o capít ulo de esta obra, encontrará nombres toponímicos que se han desfigurado con el transcurso del tiempo hasta quizás perder su sentido y significación propios ; por eso, vi, por conveniente reconstruir en 10 posible algunas raíces de sitios o...
University Press of Florida, 2021. — 328 p. This volume brings together archaeologists working in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to construct a new prehistory of the Upper Amazon, outlining cultural developments from the late third millennium B.C. to the Inca Empire of the sixteenth century A.D. Encompassing the forested tropical slopes of the eastern Andes as well as Andean...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 391 p. — (BAR International Series 2748/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 42). Around the tenth century AD, the Chimú culture emerged along the arid northern coast of Peru. In the fifteenth century AD, at its peak, the Chinú kingdom expanded over hundreds of kilometres, was controlled by a network of administrative centres from Chan Chan, the...
Springer, 2023. — 336 p. This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and landscape diversity. This geographic area has supported human populations since at least the transition from the Pleistocene to Holocene, but the nature and scale of these interactions are matters of debate...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2008. — 369 p. — (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology: Monograph 61). This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavin phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavin is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 300 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 33). Cazadores-recolectores del Holoceno medio en las sierras de Tandilia oriental (Argentina) presenta los resultados de una tesis doctoral sobre los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron las sierras de Tandilia oriental (Argentina) durante el periodo del Holoceno medio. En este estudio se analizaron las...
Dumbarton Oaks, 2016. — 496 p. Making Value, Making Meaning: Techné in the Pre-Columbian World adopts the concept of techné as an analytic tool useful for understanding how the production process created value and meaning for social valuables and public monuments in complex societies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes. In doing so, the archaeologists and art historians...
University of Michigan Press, 2014. — 241 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 55). The Cuzco region of highland Peru was the heartland of the Inca empire, the largest native state to develop in the Americas. Archaeologists have studied Inca monumental architecture for more than a century, but it is only in recent decades that regional survey work has systematically...
University of Michigan Press, 2008. — 390 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 44). In this volume, R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado González present an archaeological and historical introduction to the Yucay Valley, as well as the complete transcription of the first volume of documents in the Betancur Collection.
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 211 p. — (BAR International Series 2776). The strategies of production and consumption of lithic artifacts implemented by the hunter-gatherer societies who participated in the first peopling (final Pleistocene - 13,000/10,000 BP - and early Holocene - 10,000/7500 BP) of the southern end of the American continent are investigated in this book. The...
Springer, 2017. — 402 p. This groundbreaking volume presents, for the first time in English, a broad historical review of the researches carried out over 170 years in the region of Lagoa Santa, Brazil, one of the most important archaeological regions in the Americas. From the pioneering work of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the XIX century to the recent research on the...
Springer, 2001. — 404 p. — (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). The Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project, a multiyear program undertaken from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, is a benchmark for a new level of quality in Andean archaeological research and has brought the theory and substance of research in the region to the attention of the larger...
Barcelona: Editorial Crítica S.L., 1999. — 208 p. — (Crítica/Arqueología). — ISBN: 84-8432-004-9. El autor del gran libro Los incas , nos ofrece ahora un apasionante y riguroso estudio de las civilizaciones que les precedieron, a partir de la información acumulada tras las excavaciones más recientes y el estudio desde el aire de las siluetas de cóndor, ballenas o monos (algunas...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 2011. — 208 p. The crown jewel of the Inka Empire was their capital, Cusco. So celebrated was the Cusco of Inka times that we sometimes forget how little we know of earlier times in the region. This book presents Allison Davis’ pioneering excavations at the high-altitude Formative site of Yuthu. Davis presents all...
Springer, 2021. — 252 p. This work book contributes to the knowledge about human settlements in the Isla Grande of Tierra Del Fuego by the hunter-gatherer societies that inhabited the area until the early twentieth century. The central theme is the study of technological organization as an approach to the management strategies of biotic and abiotic resources, as well as the...
University of Michigan Press, 1988. — 328 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 21). Many archaeologists and ethnohistorians use historic documents to help interpret prehistoric archaeological sequences. A sixteenth-century Spanish document called Justicia 413 has been instrumental in helping researchers understand conflict among the prehistoric polities of coastal Peru....
University Alabama Press, 1996. — 240 p. Although long famous for its antiquities - notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds - the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most...
University Alabama Press, 1996. — 240 p. Although long famous for its antiquities - notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds - the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 331 p. — (BAR International Series 2966/Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology 1). Ce livre propose de réexaminer l’étude de l’occupation du basin lacustre du lac Titicaca durant la période Tiwanaku (500-1150 PCN) en développant le concept de paysage culturel lacustre. Souvent considérées comme des ‘cultures de la terre’ (agriculture,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 380 p. Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from ca. 13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of...
Springer International Publishing, 2014. — 388 p. This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of south-central Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical examination of previous...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985. — 289 p. Foreword Gordon R. Willey. Junius Bouton Bird and American Archaeology Michael E. Moseley. The Exploration and Explanation of Early Monumental Architecture in the Andes Thomas C. Patterson. The Huaca La Florida, Rimac Valley, Peru Robert A. Feldman. Preceramic Corporate Architecture: Evidence for the Development of...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 1985. — 212 p. — (Technical Reports 16). In this volume, Robert D. Drennan presents a preliminary report on his survey and excavation in the mountainous area of western Colombia in 1984. Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata contains a thorough description of the region's landscape, including geology, soils,...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-05934-4. This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the Prehispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death....
University Press of Florida, 2020. — 336 p. Presenting studies in Andean archaeology and iconography by leading specialists in the field, this volume tackles the question of how researchers can come to understand the intangible, intellectual worlds of ancient peoples. Archaeological Interpretations is a fascinating ontological journey through Andean cultures from the fourth...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 472 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 57). Durante el período prehispánico, la costa norte del Perú contempló el desarrollo de numerosas sociedades con ricas producciones artesanales, como las de las poblaciones Virú-Gallinazo y Mochica que coexistieron durante el primer milenio de nuestra era. En esta región, el análisis de las formas y...
Zahar, 2000. — 128 p.
Um mundo se desenvolveu por milênios à margem do Ocidente e do Oriente, até um dia ser descoberto e conquistado. Seus traços, que ficaram impressos na solidez da pedra e na fragilidade do barro, são o objeto desse livro. Das escarpas dos Andes ao Amazonas, do cerrado ao litoral, o leitor é convidado a conhecer esse mundo de antes de Cabral.
University of Michigan Press, 2019. — 221 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 60). Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The oldest stratigraphic level in...
CreateSpace, 2015. — 175 pp. — ISBN: 1507892810. Elongated human skulls have been found in the archaeological record on every inhabited continent, and most commonly these people existed about 2000 years ago. The vast majority were elite members of various societies and artificial cranial deformation was performed on them as infants in order to achieve a specific look so as to...
Museo de Arte de Lima, 2015. — 207 p. El concepto de “sociedad compleja” en la arqueología del nuevo mundo - Peter Fux ¿Qué es chavín? - Peter Fux La arqueología del desierto costeño: oasis ribereños, agricultura y cohesión ritual: Introducción/Los primeros pobladores y las primeras sociedades en el litoral - Tom D. Dillehay Procesos culturales tempranos en los andes del sur -...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 181 p. — (BAR International Series 3003). En este libro se presentan y discuten resultados de estudios sobre diagénesis ósea en restos humanos y de mamíferos grandes, recuperados en una región subtropical del sur de Sudamérica: el centro-este de Argentina. Tales estudios se llevaron a cabo desde la perspectiva teórico-metodológica de la tafonomía...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 325 p. — (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology). — ISBN: 978–0–19–968769–5. This book tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 396 p. Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly, people were also producing and...
Museo de Arte de Lima, 2014. — 348 p. La muestra de un descubrimiento. Castillo de Huarmey en el MALI - Cecilia Pardo El fenómeno Wari : tras las huella de un imperio prehispánico - Milosz Giersz, Krzysztof Makowski El hallazgo del mausoleo imperial - Milosz Giersz Ajuar personal : las mujeres de la élite wari y su atuendo - Patrycja Przadka Giersz El ajuar funerario de las...
University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 312 p. This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of...
University of New Mexico Press, 2019. — 312 p. This cohesive edited volume showcases data collected from more than seven thousand ceramic artifacts including pottery, figurines, clay pipes, and other objects from sites across South America. Covering a time span from 900 BC to AD 1500, the essays by leading archaeologists working in South America illustrate the diversity of...
Springer, 2020. — 386 p. Astronomy in the Inca Empire was a robust and fundamental practice. The subsequent Spanish conquest of the Andes region disrupted much of this indigenous culture and resulted in a significant loss of information about its rich history. Through modern archaeoastronomy, this book helps recover and interpret some of these elements of Inca civilization....
Springer, 2020. — 386 p. Astronomy in the Inca Empire was a robust and fundamental practice. The subsequent Spanish conquest of the Andes region disrupted much of this indigenous culture and resulted in a significant loss of information about its rich history. Through modern archaeoastronomy, this book helps recover and interpret some of these elements of Inca civilization....
University of Texas Press, 2017. — 288 p. When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed by a few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 117 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 51). El sitio Chipana-1, situado en pleno corazón del Desierto de Atacama en la Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT) a 1200 msnm, refleja la adaptación de antiguas sociedades humanas a un ambiente hiper-árido, y aporta nuevos datos al debate sobre las primeras ocupaciones humanas en América del Sur. La buena...
Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1990. — 107 p. — (Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning. Serie B: Skrifter LXXXIX). — ISBN: 82-00-02879-8. (English and Spanish Texts). This is a reprint of an archaeologocial report originally published in 1956 as Vol. XXII, no. 2, part 3 in American Antiquity . Since the original edition has long since gone out of print and has had a...
University of Texas Press, 1997. — 392 p. Since prehistoric times, Andean societies have been organized around the ayllu , a grouping of real or ceremonial kinspeople who share labor, resources, and ritual obligations. Many Andean scholars believe that the ayllu is as ancient as Andean culture itself, possibly dating back as far as 6000 B.C., and that it arose to alleviate the...
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History Uppsala University, 2012. — 264 p. In Andean cognition the embodiment of the past is different from many other ways to spatiallyrelate the position of the body to time. This epistemology is for instance expressed in the Quechuaword ñawpa, which signifies that the past is “in front of us;” it is known and can be seen. Seeing...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 258 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 29). El estudio se llevó a cabo en dos instancias. La primera desarrollada entre los meses de Abril y Junio de 2014, consistiendo en diversas acciones relacionadas con la excavación arqueológica sistemática, el registro, conservación e interpretación de la cultura material recuperada a profundidades comprendidas...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 199 p. — (BAR International Series 2957). El objetivo principal de este libro es brindar una aproximación al modo de vida y muerte de la gente común de la bahía de Ancón, ubicada en la Costa Central del Perú, quiénes vivieron y murieron bajo el dominio del imperio Wari e Inca, como también bajo el grupo local autónomo Chancay (800-1532d.C). Para esta...
University of Texas Press, 2016. — 486 p. Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings to the...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 244 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 32). This volume presents a series of papers designed to offer a summary of ongoing research across Argentina that can come under the broad heading of Rural Archaeology. La vida cotidiana y su materialidad en Alexandra Colony. Alejandra, Santa Fe, Argentina – I. Dosztal "La 26 al fondo": historias de un lugar –...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 248 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 47). Ubicado en el noroeste de Suramérica (Ecuador), el valle del río Cuyes constituye una zona de transición entre los Andes y la Amazonia. La presente investigación busca determinar el origen étnico de los habitantes precolombinos del valle a través de la aplicación de un método de análisis cerámico...
Praeger Publishers, 1970. — 256 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 70). Since 1956, Professor Lathrap has pursued a long-term program of research into the ethnography and cultural history of the Peruvian Amazon. Working on the floor of the Amazon Basin near the eastern slope of the Andes, he and his co-workers found evidence to suggest that sedentary communities with...
Routledge, 2016. — 306 p. An Archaeology of Ancash is a well-illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of north-central Peru and, specifically, the stone remains of the mountainous Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland Ancash built impressive monuments, with no other region of South America showing such an early and continuous commitment to stone carving. Drawing on...
London, UK; New York, NY: Routledge, 2013. — xiv, 200 p, 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col maps. Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and...
University of Iowa Press, 2011. — 338 p. Flourishing from A.D. 1 to 700, the Recuay inhabited lands in northern Peru just below the imposing glaciers of the highest mountain chain in the tropics. Thriving on an economy of high-altitude crops and camelid herding, they left behind finely made artworks and grand palatial buildings with an unprecedented aesthetic and a high degree...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 195 p. — (BAR International Series 2803). This book deals with the disappearance of the Aguada Culture in the Catamarca Province Northwestern Argentina, focusing of the abandonment of several settlements in the Ambato Valley, which has shown evidence of fire and a rapid abandonment dated to around 900-1000 AD. A new method of analysing forest fires using...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2015. — 150 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 5). — ISBN13 9781784911607. — ISBN10 1784911607. Metallurgical activity was present in Ecuador from at least 1500 BC; by around the beginning of the Common Era metallurgical manufacture and use had extended to most of the Costa and Sierra. Regional styles soon evolved giving rise to high levels...
Sidestone Press, 2016. — 276 p. — (Taboui 4). Cet ouvrage documente le réseau commercial de la Guyane de l’Ancien Régime par l’analyse du mobilier archéologique issu des fouilles de six habitations guyanaises, de même que par l’exploitation des archives de la correspondance officielle de la Guyane entre 1688 et 1794 qui fournissent des informations essentielles quant au trafic...
University Press of Florida, 2019. — 384 p. Andean Ontologies is a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how ancient Andean people understood their world and the nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, space, and the human body, these essays highlight a range of beliefs across the region’s different cultures, emphasizing the relational aspects of...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 164 p. — (BAR International Series 3109). The Early Regional Development (100 BC-AD 300) funerary precinct at Salango, on the central coast of Ecuador, was situated at the point of convergence of the Bahía II and Early Guangala culture zones. With plentiful line drawings and colour photographs, this book uses pottery from the precinct to present a...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 189 p. — (BAR International Series 2816). El siguiente estudio se focaliza en las modalidades de uso de las tecnologías líticas manufacturadas por diferentes grupos cazadores-recolectores, que habitaron la Meseta Central de Santa Cruz (Argentina), desde la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno al Holoceno Tardío (ca. 13.000 años C14 AP hasta tiempos...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 1992. — 110 p. Este libro reseña los resultados de las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas en la pirámide de Akapana en Tiwanaku, Bolivia, durante los años de 1988 y 1989. La pirámide es la estructura principal del centro preincaico de Tiwanaku en el altiplano boliviano, que tuvo su auge en...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 284 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 31). This book presents the results and discussion of archaeofaunal studies which took place in the northern San Matías Gulf (Rio Negro Province) during the last six years, focussing on terrestrial mammals and birds. The general objective of this research is to determine what was the mode of operation of...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 403 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 59). Cerro Azul, a pre-Inca fishing community in the Kingdom of Huarco, Peru, stood at the interface between a rich marine ecosystem and an irrigated coastal plain. Under the direction of its noble families, Cerro Azul dried millions of fish for shipment to inland communities, from which it...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2008. — 356 p. — (Monographs 62). During the Late Intermediate period (AD 1100-1470), the lower Cañete Valley of Peru was controlled by the walled Kingdom of Huarco. While inland sites produced irrigated crops, the seaside community of Cerro Azul, 130 km south of Lima, produced fish for the rest of the kingdom. Cerro Azul's noble families...
Praeger Publishers, 1966. — 220 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 49). Bordered by the Pacific Ocean, crossed by numerous rivers, and easily accessible through the mountain passes of Colombia and Peru, Ecuador was the meeting place of many cultures throughout Latin America's prehistory. Yet relatively little is known of its earliest civilizations. In this first detailed...
Smithsonian Books, 2015. — 240 p. This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced...
Springer, 2022. — 552 p. This book highlights the knowledge about landscapes and characteristics of the earliest hunter-gatherer lifeway in Southern Patagonia. It presents an analysis of the archaeological investigations carried out during three decades by an interdisciplinary team that involved archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists and specialists in...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 560 p. A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000...
University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 560 p. A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 276 p. In this 1996 volume, Jerry D. Moore discusses public architecture in the context of the cultural, political and religious life of the pre-hispanic Andes. Archaeologists have invested enormous effort in excavating and documenting prehistoric buildings, but analytical approaches to architecture remain as yet undeveloped. Architecture and...
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 294 p. In Incidence of Travel , archaeologist Jerry Moore draws on his personal experiences and historical and archaeological studies throughout South America to explore and understand the ways traditional peoples created cultural landscapes in the region. Using new narrative structures, Moore introduces readers to numerous archaeological...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 437 p. — (BAR International Series 1941). Pre-Columbian pottery figurines from Peru occur in astonishingly large numbers in museum and private collections. However in the published literature they generally occupy a place of 'also ran'. The reason for this may be that because of their scarcity in controlled excavations their potential importance has been...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 489 p. — (BAR International Series 2441). Volume 3 in this series on Pre-Columbian figurines concentrates on pottery figurines from the south coast, the highlands and the 'Selva' (tropical rain forests) of Peru. It details a collection of 784 figurines: 536 from the South Coast, 230 from the Sierra and 18 from the Selva. The main aim of this work has...
American Museum of Natural History, 2011. — 239 p. — (Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History 96). This volume represents the first in a series of publications detailing the archaeological research conducted by Craig Morris and his colleagues at Huánuco Pampa, an Inka provincial administrative center located in highland Peru. The site offers a unique...
Menlo Park, California: Cummings Publishing Company, 1975. — xii, 131 p. ill. — (Cummings Archaeology Series). — ISBN: 0-8465-4800-3. "In this fascinating little volume, Moseley examines the roots of Peruvian civilization which developed on the Central Coast by 1800 B.C. He theorizes that mollusks, rather than cultivated plants, were the essential food resource of these early...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 225 p. — (BAR International Series 3114). En este libro se presentan los resultados del análisis de las representaciones sociales y la patrimonialización del registro arqueológico del pasado indígena en el Área de Ventania de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. La investigación se caracteriza por su transdisciplinariedad, dentro de la cual dialogan...
Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2014. — 544 pages : illustrations. Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica...
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 158 p. This study focuses the relationship between man, territory and water resources in the area of Andean Lake Puruhuay (Ancash, Peru). This region is rich in cochas (lakes), each of which has a special place in the local ancient and modern history. Highly specialized hydraulic structures were found in many of the sites investigated during the course...
University of Alabama Press, 2005. — 248 p. A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics. Few topics in the development of humans have prompted as much interest and debate as those of the origins of pottery and agriculture. The first appearance of pottery in any area of the world is heralded as...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 430 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 28). En su versión original, Magallania es el nombre acuñado por Martinic para definir la región comprendida entre la cuenca del río Santa Cruz al norte hasta la expresión fueguina de la cordillera de los Andes al sur. Es uno de los espacios más australes del mundo y de los últimos en ser ocupados por humanos,...
University of Michigan, 2000. — 564 p. — (Memoirs 34). An archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru’s rugged and diverse central highlands.
University of Michigan, 2013. — 401 p. — (Memoirs 53). This monograph is based on six months of systematic regional survey in the Wanka Region of Peru’s sierra central, carried out in two field seasons in 1975–1976 by the Junin Archaeological Research Project (JASP) under the co-direction of Jeffrey R. Parsons (University of Michigan) and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Universidad...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 226 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 30). La meta de este libro es aportar al desarrollo de una metodología para abordar el estudio de artefactos arqueológicos de cuarzo, focalizándose en la combinación de diversas herramientas analíticas que permitan estudiar estos utensilios y contribuir así a una mejor comprensión de las estrategias tecnológicas...
Springer, 2019. — 343 p. This volume combines 10 years of accomplished research at the Pilauco site. The studies are focused on a variety of scientific areas including geological, sedimentological, geomorphological and paleobotanical topics, as well as paleontology of vertebrata and invertebrata, micropaleontology, archaeology, biochemistry, taxonomy, taphonomy, astrophysics...
Springer, 2019. — 343 p. This volume combines 10 years of accomplished research at the Pilauco site. The studies are focused on a variety of scientific areas including geological, sedimentological, geomorphological and paleobotanical topics, as well as paleontology of vertebrata and invertebrata, micropaleontology, archaeology, biochemistry, taxonomy, taphonomy, astrophysics and...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 348 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). In this book, Gustavo G. Politis and Luis A. Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina's Pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene until the 20th century. Offering a history of the nomadic foragers living in the harsh habitats...
University of Florida Press, 2020. — 462 p. Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes examines how settlements along South America’s Pacific coastline played a role in the emergence, consolidation, and collapse of Andean civilizations from the Late Pleistocene era through Spanish colonization. Providing the first synthesis of data from Chile, Peru, and Ecuador, this...
New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1965. — 231 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 44). Colombia, the legendary land of El Dorado, is one of South America's most complex countries, both geographically and culturally. For millennia man had to cope with the most diverse physical conditions, from tropical jungle to barren highlands, from narrow mountain valleys to the...
National Geographic, 2005. — 400 p. Johan Reinhard's discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of an Inca girl made international headlines in 1995, reaching more than a billion people worldwide. One of the best-preserved mummies ever found, it was a stunning and significant time capsule, the spectacular climax to an Andean quest that yielded no fewer than ten ancient human...
Springer, 2020. — 298 p. This book describes an archaeological investigation of human occupation in the northern area of the Patagonian archipelago in the far south of South America. It is of global anthropological and archaeological interest, dealing as it does with an archipelago characterised by a maze of islands, fiords, channels, volcanoes and continental glaciers, in an...
Springer, 2020. — 298 p. This book describes an archaeological investigation of human occupation in the northern area of the Patagonian archipelago in the far south of South America. It is of global anthropological and archaeological interest, dealing as it does with an archipelago characterised by a maze of islands, fiords, channels, volcanoes and continental glaciers, in an...
Montreal: St. Remy Press; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1994. — 176 p. — (Exploring the Ancient World). — ISBN: 0-89599-041-5. The pre-Hispanic cultures of the Andean area of South America have been of great interest to archaeologists and the general public alike for many years. As a result of a recent burst of archaeological activity, scholarly knowledge of the area has...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 78 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 52). Les objets n’ont pas un seul objectif. Prémisse centrale qui guide le dénouement de ce livre. Dans les pages suivantes le lecteur trouvera une réflexion sur une société des chasseurs-collecteurs marins à partir d’un de ces biens matériaux iconiques et un des plus importantes, le harpon. Cet objet...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 165 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 25). This book is about how hunter-gatherer groups maintained a relationship with the use and management of fire in the Late Holocene of Southern Precordillera. The line of study developed here as part of the anthracology made use of methodologically systematic analysis of the remains of charcoal from the...
University Press of Colorado, 2017. — 344 p. "Rituals of the Past" explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 208 p. — (BAR International Series 2758/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 44). The history of European settlement of South Americas has been the subject of much historical, archaeological and anthropological research. Guianas in the Amazon region, however life and society in the pre-Columbianperiod remain comparatively neglected topics. Though the...
Foreword by Philippe Descola. — Left Coast Press, 2012. — 274 p. Stéphen Rostain’s book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing...
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. — (University of California Publications in American Archaeology end Ethnology; Vol. 46, No. 1). — 134 p. Max Uhle, 1856-1944. Bibliography of Max Uhle. Appendix A. The Aims and Results of Archaeology, by Max Uhle. Appendix B. Letters from Argentina and Bolivia, 1893-1895, by Max Uhle. Appendix C. Documents Relating to the Years...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 141 p. — (BAR International Series 2823). This is an archaeological study of social organization and change in a late prehispanic population of northern Chile. The research involves contextual examination of the occurrence of highland ceramic styles and materials and drawing inferences concerning local socio-political structures. Excavation at four sites...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 304 p. La Quebrada de Humahuaca ha sido espacio de importantes y diversos desarrollos culturales continuados y presenta lugares que son referencias claves en la arqueología de Argentina. Sin embargo, numerosos espacios, como Tumbaya, aún no han sido objeto de una investigación sistemática e intensiva. Allí, el estudio se inició frente al interés de la...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 236 p. La ciudad de Buenos Aires, fundada en 1580, tras un intento fallido previo, fue establecida sobre una meseta natural frente al caudaloso Río de la Plata, con un pequeño puerto natural ubicado en un río cercano llamado Riachuelo. La presencia de población originaria en el lugar es un tema de discusión en este libro. La región era parte del sistema...
Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1973. — 296 p. — (Nueva Colección Labor, 95). — ISBN: 84-335-5723-8. Según no deja de recordamos oportunamente el propio autor del libro, el catedrático de la universidad de Mendoza Juan Schobinger, la prehistoria suramericana que hasta hace bien pocos años carecia de relieve alguno, reducida a mero apéndice de la norteamericana, emerge ahora en el...
Instituto nacional de cultura, proyecto especial arqueológico Caral-Supe, 2003. — 346 p. Caral, una de las más importantes civilizaciones del planeta, fue creada por el trabajo organizado de sus pobladores en un territorio de configuraciones geográficas singulares. Muchos conocen Cusco como la capital del imperio Inca y Machu Picchu como el predio de uno de los últimos incas;...
Ministerio de Cultura, 2015. — 284 p. La Zona Arqueológica Caral (ZAC) es una institución pública que cuenta con autonomía de gestión científica, administrativa y financiera. Fue creada mediante el Decreto Supremo 003-2003-ED del 14 de febrero de 2003, ratificado por la Ley 28690 del 18 de marzo de 2006, y adscrita al Ministerio de Cultura, como Unidad Ejecutora 003, desde...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 209 p. — (BAR International Series 2993). Este libro presenta la investigación sobre la explotación alimenticia y tecnológica de restos de artiodáctilos, Hippocamelus bisulcus (huemul) y Lama guanicoe (guanaco) provenientes de contextos arqueológicos heterogéneos del Holoceno medio y tardío de Fuego-Patagonia en Chile. Análisis específicos...
Springer, 2008. — 1191 p. — ISBN: 978-0-387-75528-0. 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),...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 368 p. — (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology). The Andean region is among the most fascinating and well-known centers of civilization. While understanding the Andes in local terms is crucial, Andean prehistory is also relevant to the comparative study of complex societies worldwide. This book addresses the need to explore the rich history of...
University of Michigan Press, 2014. — 424 p. — (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology 56). This landmark book synthesizes the results of more than a decade of fieldwork in southern Peru—where Stanish and his team systematically surveyed more than 1000 square kilometers in the northern Titicaca Basin—and it details several hundred new sites in the Huancané-Putina River valley.
University of Gothenburg, 2016. — 128 p. This book is one of the outcomes of the project Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia (http://www.cultivated-wilderness.org/). The project has particularly focused on the previously relatively unknown prehistory of the Amazonian hinterland. Our work has revealed that...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 126 p. — (BAR International Series 2808). This volume presents current trends in the application of scientific methods to ceramic analysis throughout South America. Reports from ongoing ceramic research in the area capture the wide array of methods incorporated as a normal part of research in most countries while reflecting national variation in their...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 250 p. — (BAR International Series 2687). This book focuses on archaeological sites and artifacts related to the Formative societies known as Qaluyu and Pukara (1400 BC-350 AD). These societies developed in the northern basin of Titicaca, in the Department of Puno, Peru. Focussing on the site of Chaupisawakasi, Chapter 1 describes the natural environment...
Fondo Editorial del Pedagógico San Marcos, 2008. — 301 p. Este libro se centra en el polémico, trillado y, hasta quizá para algun@s, teórico- aburrido tema de la formación del Estado prehistórico. Entonces, por qué razón hacerlo. Desde nuestra perspectiva, hemos llegado a esto por dos razones principales. La primera es que nuestra práctica en arqueología andina nos ha sometido...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 459 p. — (BAR International Series 2150). This study explains the social development of archaeological settlements and artefacts related to the first sedentary societies (1400 BC- AD 350) of the Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru. Such societies passed through a very wide event horizon, but a major influence was the qualitative and quantitative changes in the...
Translated by Charles Stanish. — Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2014. — 215 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61132-991-9. This book offers a unique, critical perspective on the history of Peruvian archaeology by a native scholar. Leading Peruvian archaeologist Henry Tantaleán illuminates the cultural legacy of colonialism beginning with "founding father" Max Uhle and traces key...
University Alabama Press, 2020. — 160 p. Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establish the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries. Recent popular discourse on nationalism and ethnicity assumes that humans by nature prefer "tribalism", as if people cannot help but divide themselves along lines of social and ethnic difference. Research from...
University Press of Florida, 2013. — 270 p. The Wari Empire thrived in the Peruvian Andes between AD 600 and 1000. This study of human skeletons reveals the biological and social impact of Wari imperialism on people's lives, particularly its effects on community organization and frequency of violence of both ruling elites and subjects. The Wari state was one of the first...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 74 p. This work presents an anthropological study of crania and mandibles from the osteological collection from Chinchero (Peru), currently housed at the American Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1968 to 1971, a team of archaeologists of the Spanish Scientific Mission in Hispanic America excavated the...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 755 p. Stratigraphic archaeological research in French Guiana is barely 50 years old and has been conducted primarily in the coastal zone, stretching approximately between 5 and 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast to the Precambrian Shield. This bias, mainly caused by means of modern infrastructure, has sketched an archaeological record concerning...
Springer, 2013. - 359 p. - (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Over the millennia, from stone tools among early foragers to clays to prized metals and mineral pigments used by later groups, mineral resources have had a pronounced role in the Andean world. Archaeologists have used a variety of analytical techniques on the materials that ancient peoples procured...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 260 p. Este libro presenta los resultados obtenidos durante los estudios geoarqueológicos realizados en la localidad Touro Passo, municipio de Uruguaiana, Brasil. Alli se reubicaron los sitios paleoindios estudiados por el equipo del PRONAPA-Programa Nacional de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en las décadas de 1960 y 1970 y han sido reconocidos otros con...
University Press of Florida, 2012. — 224 p. Melissa Vogels Frontier Life in Ancient Peru offers a new perspective on ancient Peruvian life and geopolitics during a pivotal period of Andean cultural transformation between AD 900 and AD 1300. Focusing on the frontier site of Cerro la Cruz in the Chao Valley (located on the northern border of the Casma polity), this volume richly...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013. — 224 p. — (Monograph 77). This volume, the second in a series of studies on the archaeology of the Titicaca Basin, serves as an excellent springboard for broader discussions of the roles of ritual, authority, coercion, and the intensification of resources and trade for the development of archaic states worldwide. Over the last...
University of New Mexico Press, 2018. — 224 p. Archaeologists have long associated the development of agriculture with the rise of the state. But the archaeology of the Amazon Basin, revealing traces of agriculture but lacking evidence of statehood, confounds their assumptions. John H. Walker's innovative study of the Bolivian Amazon addresses this contradiction by examining the...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 166 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 11). Excavations at the Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site brought to light the first intact burial of female high-elite members of the Wari culture. It was found beneath a large Adobe mausoleum, a landmark and focal point of the lower Huarmey Valley. Abundant grave goods, among which were...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 212 с. Книга посвящена доинкским цивилизациям Центральных Анд. Она содержит очерк всех археологических культур этого района с X в. до и. э. по XIV в. и. э. В книге прослеживается процесс становления, развития и гибели древнейших цивилизаций и рассматриваются некоторые проблемы этнической истории этой части Латинской Америки. Введение. История исследования...
М.: Наука, 1972. — 212 с. Книга посвящена доинкским цивилизациям Центральных Анд. Она содержит очерк всех археологических культур этого района с X в. до н. э. по XIV в. н. э. В книге прослеживается процесс становления, развития и гибели древнейших цивилизаций и рассматриваются некоторые проблемы этнической истории этой части Латинской Америки. Введение. История исследования...
М.: Знание, 1982. — 64 с.
Книжка посвящена новейшим исследованиям по истории Древнего Перу, приблизившим нас к решению многих загадок, которые казались неразрешимыми. Например, была ли у перуанцев письменность? Знали ли они колесо? В чем причина гибели города Тиауанако? Что известно о некоторых загадочных памятниках цивилизации наска? Отвечая на эти, казалось бы, частные...
М.: Институт Латинской Америки АН СССР, 1969. — 200 с. Монография С.А. Созиной — первая в советской, да, пожалуй, и в зарубежной историографии, обобщающая работа о социально-экономических институтах муисков Колумбии в доиспанский период. В научный оборот вводится совершенно новая для нашего читателя, крайне интересная и оригинальная культура древней Америки, во всем ее...
М.: Институт Латинской Америки АН СССР, 1969. — 200 с. Предисловие Вместо введения. Вторжение в "Долину замков" Вклад испанских хронистов и современных ученых в изучение культуры муисков Рассказывают древние хроники Литература XVII-XX вв. Археологическое изучение муисков Хозяйство муисков Природные условия и расселение Основные виды хозяйственной деятельности Ремесло...
Москва: Прогресс, 1983. — 212 с.
В своей новой книге он рассказывает о древнейших цивилизациях Америки, об увлекательном труде ученых-археологов и историков. Посвятивших себя поискам доинкских культур на Американском континенте.
М.: Прогресс, 1983. — 212 с. Чешский этнограф, путешественник и писатель Милослав Стингл хорошо известен советским читателям. В своей новой книге он рассказывает о древнейших цивилизациях Америки, об увлекательном труде ученых, археологов, историков, посвятивших себя поискам доинкских культур на Американском континенте. Почему? Произнесем это слово: Перу. Снег, вода и песок....
М.: Прогресс, 1983. — 212 с. Чешский этнограф, путешественник и писатель Милослав Стингл хорошо известен советским читателям. В своей новой книге он рассказывает о древнейших цивилизациях Америки, об увлекательном труде ученых, археологов, историков, посвятивших себя поискам доинкских культур на Американском континенте. Почему? Произнесем это слово: Перу. Снег, вода и песок....
Учебное пособие. — Новосибирск: Сибирская научная книга, 2006. — 244 с. Настоящая книга знакомит с историей археологических исследований в Андах и на тихоокеанском побережье Южной Америки, освещает основные аспекты проблемы времени первоначального заселения человеком данного региона, рассказывает о наиболее древних поселениях и погребальных комплексах. Издание содержит обширный...
Новосибирск: Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН, 2015. — 102 с. Научно-популярная книга "Каука: Таинственная река" посвящена археологии одной из наиболее колоритных и загадочных стран Южной Америки - Колумбии. В ней рассказывается об истории и курьезах археологического поиска, о самобытных культурах (Илама, Йотоко, Сонсо, Кимбайя и др.) в бассейне р. Каука, об удивительных...
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