Variations in the Expression of Inka Power
Variations in the Expression of Inka Power

Author: Richard L. Burger

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780884023517

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Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture in Andean South America before the 16th-century arrival of the Spaniards. Using both theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars of the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history.

Comparative Perspectives on the Archaeology of Coastal South America
Comparative Perspectives on the Archaeology of Coastal South America

Author: Robyn E. Cutright

Publisher: Center for Comparative Arch

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1877812889

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Thirteen papers by archaeologists from North and South America on the archaeology of coastal Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. The authors have all emphasized comparative approaches to prehispanic societies along the Pacific coast. They give preference neither to high theory nor to case-specific empirical details, but rather attempt to answer theoretically important research questions with appropriate methodologies and empirical datasets--ones that are amenable to a broad comparative view.

The Articulated Peasant
The Articulated Peasant

Author: Enrique Mayer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-05

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0429976453

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Based on Enrique Mayer’s 30 years of research in Peru, this collection of new and revised essays presents in one accessible volume Mayer’s most significant statements on Andean peasant economies from pre-colonial times to the present. The Articulated Peasant is therefore noteworthy as a sustained examination of household economies through changing historical circumstances, while considering also the relationship of the environment to systems of land use, agricultural production, and economic exchange among ecological zones. Though the volume stresses the Andean context, its relevancy is wider. It will resonate with those who are struggling with issues of survival and development in Latin America or elsewhere where units of production and consumption are largely household based. This book is well suited for courses in Andean studies, economic anthropology, human ecology, peasants, and development.

Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes
Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes

Author: Peter Eeckhout

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-03-02

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107059348

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This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic 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. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely - if ever - been utilised in South America before. The book covers the Formative Period to the end of the Inca Empire, and the chapters together comprise a state-of-the-art summary of all the best research on Andean funerary archaeology currently being carried out around the globe.

Andean Civilization
Andean Civilization

Author: Joyce Marcus

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2009-12-31

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1938770366

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This volume brings together exciting new field data by more than two dozen Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor. These new studies cover the enormous temporal span of Moseley's own work from the Preceramic era to the Tiwanaku and Moche states to the Inka empire. And, like Moseley's own studies -- from Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization to Chan Chan: The Desert City to Cerro Baul's brewery -- these new studies involve settlements from all over the Andes -- from the far northern highlands to the far southern coast. An invaluable addition to any Andeanist's library, the papers in this book demonstrate the enormous breadth and influence of Moseley's work and the vibrant range of exciting new work by his former students and collaborators in fieldwork.

Andean Ecology
Andean Ecology

Author: Gregory Knapp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0429714947

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This book describes and analyzes the adaptive strategies of traditional and prehistoric farmers in one part of the Andes, in an effort to understand the varying interactions between people and their habitat over the last five hundred years.

Ancient South America
Ancient South America

Author: Karen Olsen Bruhns

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1009488031

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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. Independently of developments elsewhere, South American peoples invented agriculture, domesticated animals, and created pottery, elaborate architecture, and the arts of working metals. Tribes, chiefdoms, and immense conquest states rose, flourished, and disappeared, leaving only their ruined monuments and broken artifacts as testimonials to past greatness. This new edition is completely revised and updated to reflect archaeological discoveries and insights made in the past three decades. Incorporating new findings on northern and eastern lowlands, and discussions of the first civilizations, it also examines the first inhabitants of Brazil and Patagonia as well as the Andes. Accessibly written and abundantly illustration, the volume also includes chronological charts and new examples.