Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. To Be Human is to Dwell; 2. Environmental Paradoxes; 3. Survey Methodology; 4. Site 165; 5. Nasca 1 Settlement Patterns; 6. Nasca 2 Settlement Patterns; 7. Nasca 3 Settlement Patterns; 8. Nasca 4 Settlement Patterns; 9. Nasca 5 Settlement Patterns; 10. Nasca 6 Settlement Patterns; 11. Nasca 7 Settlement Patterns; 12. Nasca 8/Loro Settlement Patterns; 13. Nasca Settlement Patterns in Other Valleys; 14. The Identifiable Components of Nasca Settlement Patterns; 15. Reconstruction of Nasca Economy; 16. Theorizing Nasca Society
17. Nasca Archaeology in the Twenty-First CenturyBibliography; Index
Summary
Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru two thousand years ago and evolved over the course of the next seven hundred years. Helaine Silverman's long-term, multistage work on the south coast of Peru has established her as one of the world's preeminent authorities on this brilliant and enigmatic civilization. Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society is the first extended treatment of the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art, largest ground drawings, most intense hunting of human heads as trophies, and most ingenious hydraulic engineering of the
