The Economic Organization Of Early Camelid Pastoralism In The Andean Highlands Of Bolivia

Author : José M. Capriles Flores
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1407312294

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The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia by José M. Capriles Flores Pdf

The domestication of South American camelids (llamas and alpacas) transformed the use of the Andean landscape. In the central altiplano of Bolivia, during the Formative Period (1500 BC - AD 500) a cultural complex known as Wankarani developed. This book discusses the development of early camelid pastoralism by testing a set of hypotheses related to Wankarani economic organization. In contrast with previous ideas that suggested the emergence of sedentary agricultural villages in this region, settlement patterns, site layouts and faunal remains analyses support the interpretation that the development and persistence of mobile pastoralist communities occurred in the Bolivian central altiplano.

Author : Jos{acute}e M. Capriles Flores,Nicholas Tripcevich
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826357021

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The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism by Jos{acute}e M. Capriles Flores,Nicholas Tripcevich Pdf

12: Offering Llamas to the Sea: The Economic and Ideological Importance of Camelids in the Chimu Society, North Coast of Peru Nicolas Goepfert and Gabriel Prieto -- 13: The Ethnoarchaeology of a Cotahuasi Salt Caravan: Exploring Andean Pastoralist Movement Nicholas Tripcevich -- 14: Home-Making among South Andean Pastoralists Axel E. Nielsen -- 15: Andean Prehistoric Camelid Pastoralism: A Commentary David L. Browman -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover

Author : Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317935247

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The Ancient Central Andes by Jeffrey Quilter Pdf

The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina. The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and provides a balanced view of current research. Two opening chapters present the intellectual, political, and practical background and history of research in the Central Andes and the spatial, temporal, and formal dimensions of the study of its past. Chapters then proceed in chronological order from remote antiquity to the Spanish Conquest. A number of important themes run through the book, including: the tension between those scholars who wish to study Peruvian antiquity on a comparative basis and those who take historicist approaches; the concept of "Lo Andino," commonly used by many specialists that assumes long-term, unchanging patterns of culture some of which are claimed to persist to the present; and culture change related to severe environmental events. Consensus opinions on interpretations are highlighted as are disputes among scholars regarding interpretations of the past. The Ancient Central Andes provides an up-to-date, objective survey of the archaeology of the Central Andes that is much needed. Students and interested readers will benefit greatly from this introduction to a key period in South America’s past.

Author : Scott Cameron Smith
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 9780826357090

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Landscape and Politics in the Ancient Andes by Scott Cameron Smith Pdf

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Biographies of Place -- 2: Place-Making and Politics -- 3: The Lake Titicaca Basin, Past and Present -- 4: The Site of Khonkho Wankane -- 5: Making Ritual Places: Caravan Routes and the Founding of Khonkho Wankane -- 6: Experiencing Ritual Places: Stelae, Sunken Courts, and the Creation of an Axis Mundi -- 7: The Power of Ritual Places: Politics and Social Difference through Time -- 8: The Political Cartography of an Axis Settlement -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover

Author : Justin Jennings
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826356611

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Killing Civilization by Justin Jennings Pdf

The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a “civilization bias” shapes academic explanations of urbanization, colonization, state formation, and cultural horizons. Earlier theorists have criticized the concept, but according to Jennings the critics remain beholden to it as a way of making sense of a dizzying landscape of cultural variation. Relying on the idea of civilization, he suggests, holds back understanding of the development of complex societies. Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences, using excavation and survey data from Çatalhöyük, Cahokia, Harappa, Jenne-jeno, Tiahuanaco, and Monte Albán to create a more accurate picture of the turbulent social, political, and economic conditions in and around the earliest cities. The book will influence not just anthropology but all of the social sciences.

Author : Matthew P. Sayre,Maria C. Bruno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319528496

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Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives from Paleoethnobotanical Data by Matthew P. Sayre,Maria C. Bruno Pdf

This volume contributes to the emerging topic of social paleoethnobotany with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants. The contributors to this volume illustrate how one can bridge differences between the natural and social sciences through the more socially-focused interpretations of botanical datasets. The chapters in this volume draw on a diversity of plant-derived datasets, macrobotanical, microbotanical, and molecular, which contribute to general paleoethnobotanical practice today. They also carefully consider the contexts in which the plant remains were recovered. These studies illustrate that the richest interpretations come from projects that are able to consider the widest range of data types, particularly as they aim to move beyond simple descriptions of food items and environmental settings. The authors in this volume address several themes including: the collection of wild resources, the domestication of crops and spread of agriculture, the role of plant remains in questions regarding domestic life, ritual, and gender as well as the broader implications of a socially-engaged paleoethnobotany. These studies point a path forward for the constantly evolving field of paleoethnobotany, one that is methodologically rigorous and theoretically engaged. Together, these papers shed light on ways in which the specialized analysis of plant remains can contribute to theory building and advancing archaeological understanding of past lifeways.

Author : Jeffrey R. Parsons,Charles M. Hastings,Ramiro Matos M.
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780915703494

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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru by Jeffrey R. Parsons,Charles M. Hastings,Ramiro Matos M. Pdf

Author : William H. Isbell,Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461506393

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Andean Archaeology I by William H. Isbell,Helaine Silverman Pdf

Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage knowledge, or are they the result of real constraints on and variations in the actual processes? Can such questions even be answered? We believe so, but not easily. By comparing evolutionary sequences from different world civilizations scholars can judge degrees of similarity and difference and then attempt explanation. Of course, we must be careful to assess the influence that societies of the ancient world had on one another (the issue of pristine versus non-pristine cultural devel opment: see discussion in Fried 1967; Price 1978). The Central Andes were the locus of the only societies to achieve pristine civilization in the southern hemi sphere and only in the Central Andes did non-literate (non-written language) civ ilization develop. It seems clear that Central Andean civilization was independent on any graph of archaic culture change. Scholars have often expressed appreciation of the research opportunities offered by the Central Andes as a testing ground for the study of cultural evolu tion (see, e. g. , Carneiro 1970; Ford and Willey 1949: 5; Kosok 1965: 1-14; Lanning 1967: 2-5).

Author : Linda J. Seligmann,Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317220770

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The Andean World by Linda J. Seligmann,Kathleen S. Fine-Dare Pdf

This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Charles Stanish
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520928190

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Ancient Titicaca by Charles Stanish Pdf

One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture, to the formation of the Tiwanaku and Pucara civilizations, and to the double conquest of the region, first by the powerful neighboring Inca in the fifteenth century and a century later by the Spanish Crown. Based on more than fifteen years of field research in Peru and Bolivia, Charles Stanish's book brings together a wide range of ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, including material that has not yet been published. This landmark work brings the author's intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology in this region to bear on major theoretical concerns in evolutionary anthropology. Stanish provides a broad comparative framework for evaluating how these complex societies developed. After giving an overview of the region's archaeology and cultural history, he discusses the history of archaeological research in the Titicaca Basin, as well as its geography, ecology, and ethnography. He then synthesizes the data from six archaeological periods in the Titicaca Basin within an evolutionary anthropological framework. Titicaca Basin prehistory has long been viewed through the lens of first Inca intellectuals and the Spanish state. This book demonstrates that the ancestors of the Aymara people of the Titicaca Basin rivaled the Incas in wealth, sophistication, and cultural genius. The provocative data and interpretations of this book will also make us think anew about the rise and fall of other civilizations throughout history.

Author : Franco Pedrotti,Elgene Owen Box
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030749507

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Tools for Landscape-Scale Geobotany and Conservation by Franco Pedrotti,Elgene Owen Box Pdf

This book contains the papers presented at the conferences of the International Association Vegetation Science of Pirenopolis (2016) on Applied Mapping for Conservation and Management: from Plant and of Palermo (2017) on Vegetation Patterns in relation to multi-scale levels of ecological complexity: from associations to geoseries. The reports refer to general themes (semiological bases of mapping, dynamic-catenal mapping, nature conservation, plant biodiversity, biogeography, and geosynphytosociology) and their application to vegetation in different parts of the world (Andes of Bolivia, California, Kaga Coast in Japan, Southeastern USA, Morocco, Europe: Carpathians mountains, Swiss Alps, Sicily, Southern Portugal, Spain, and French Atlantic coastal). One of the benefits of the book is that it offers the possibility of comparing the different methodologies used in very different types of vegetation in the world (Boreal, Mediterranean, Tropical, Neotropical, etc.). The book is intended for researchers, Ph.D. students, and university professors.

Author : José M. Capriles,Nicholas Tripcevich
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826357038

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The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism by José M. Capriles,Nicholas Tripcevich Pdf

In this book leading experts uncover and discuss archaeological topics and themes surrounding the long-term trajectory of camelid (llama and alpaca) pastoralism in the Andean highlands of South America. The chapters open up these studies to a wider world by exploring the themes of intensification of herding over time, animal-human relationships, and social transformations, as well as navigating four areas of recent research: the origins of domesticated camelids, variation in the development of pastoralist traditions, ritual and animal sacrifice, and social interaction through caravans. Andeanists and pastoral scholars alike will find this comprehensive work an invaluable contribution to their library and studies.

Author : Adrian J. Pearce,David G. Beresford-Jones,Paul Heggarty
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787357358

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Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide by Adrian J. Pearce,David G. Beresford-Jones,Paul Heggarty Pdf

Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).

Author : Adam Herring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107094369

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Art and Vision in the Inca Empire by Adam Herring Pdf

This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.

Author : Kenn Hirth,Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Indians of Central America
ISBN : 0884023869

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Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World by Kenn Hirth,Joanne Pillsbury Pdf

This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.