Title From Foraging to Farming in the Andes : New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages) Contents Foreword / Peter Kaulicke -- Introduction / Tom D. Dillehay -- Research history, methods, and site types / Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen, and Greg Maggard -- Pleistocene and Holocene environments from the Zaña to the Chicama valleys 25,000 to 6,000 years ago / Patricia J. Netherly -- El Palto phase (13800-9800 BP) / Greg Maggard and Tom D. Dillehay -- Las Pircas phase (9800-7800 BP) / Jack Rossen -- Tierra Blanca phase (7800-5000 BP) / Kary Stackelbeck and Tom D. Dillehay -- Preceramic mounds and hillside villages / Tom D. Dillehay, Patricia J. Netherly, and Jack Rossen -- Human remains / John W. Verano and Jack Rossen -- Preceramic plant gathering, gardening and farming / Jack Rossen -- Faunal remains / Kary Stackelbeck -- Technologies and material cultures / Tom D. Dillehay, Greg Maggard, Jack Rossen, and Kary Stackelbeck -- Settlement and landscape patterns / Tom D. Dillehay -- Foraging to farming and community development / Tom D. Dillehay, Jack Rossen, and Kary Stackelbeck -- Northern Peruvian early and middle preceramic agriculture in Central and South American contexts / Dolores Piperno -- Conclusions / Tom D. Dillehay -- Appendix 1. Radiocarbon dates for all preceramic phases and subphases -- Appendix 2. Dry forest biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes in northwestern Peru / Patricia J. Netherly -- Appendix 3. Stable carbon isotopes / Patricia J. Netherly -- Appendix 4. Faunal species present in preceramic assemblages by phase in the Jequetepeque and Zaña valleys Summary This book proposes a new and more complex model for understanding the transition from hunting and gathering to cultivation Notes Print version record Subject Indians of South America -- Agriculture -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Indians of South America -- Food -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Hunting and gathering societies -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Agriculture -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley -- Origin Plants, Cultivated -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Irrigation farming -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Agriculture -- Origin Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Hunting and gathering societies Indians of South America -- Agriculture Indians of South America -- Food Irrigation farming Plant remains (Archaeology) Plants, Cultivated SUBJECT Jequetepeque River Valley (Peru) -- Antiquities Subject Peru -- Jequetepeque River Valley Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139083133 1139083139 1283112736 9781283112734

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