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Title Advances in Andean archaeology / edited by David L. Browman
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 580 pages)
Series World Anthropology
World anthropology.
Contents Frontmatter -- PART ONE: Analogy and Cultural Reconstruction of Lithic Industries -- Introduction -- The Aguas Verdes Industry of Northern Chile -- Toolmaking and Tool Use Among the Preceramic Peoples of Panama -- PART TWO: Origins of Plant and Animal Domestication -- Introduction -- Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru -- Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics -- Animal Domestication in the Andes -- The Pre-Columbian Araucanian Chicken (Gallus inauris) of the Mapuche Indians -- PART THREE: Cultural Development in the Northern Andes -- Introduction -- Formative-Period Interaction Spheres in the Intermediate Area: Archaeology of Central America and Adjacent South America -- Ridged-Field Excavations in the Central Orinoco Llanos, Venezuela -- Ecology, Economy, and Warfare in Lowland South America -- The Formative Cultures of the Venezuela Oriente -- Majolica Pottery: Determination of Its Provenience Using Thermoluminescence -- Interpretation of Buried Structures: Coastal Sites of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil -- PART FOUR: Economic and Urban Development in the Central Andes -- Introduction -- The Cultural and Ecological Context of the Mantaro Valley During the Formative Period -- Toward the Development of the Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) State -- Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? -- Prehistory and Petroglyphs in Southern Peru -- Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era -- Toward a Typology of Architecture and Urbanism in the Pre-Columbian Andes -- Manifestations of Inca Culture in Two Provinces of Chile -- PART FIVE: Paleoecological Studies in Argentina -- Introduction -- Considerations on the Periodizations of Northwest Argentina -- Paleoecology of the CalchaquĆ­ Valley, Salta Province, Argentina -- Concerning the Archaeology of the Humahuaca Quebrada -- Contribution to the San Jose and Santa Maria Cultures, Northwest Argentina -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Notes Originally published in 1978
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Online resource; title from cover (de Gruyter ReferenceGlobal, viewed November 14, 2011)
Subject Indians of South America -- Andes -- Antiquities -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Antiquities.
Indians of South America -- Antiquities.
SUBJECT Andes -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject Andes.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Browman, David L
ISBN 9789027975508
9027975507
9783110810011
3110810018