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Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 361 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9780511793790 (ebook)

Content: Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this period, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor projects, mound-building, and population aggregation formed ever-changing conditions across the Andes. From Foraging to Farming in the Andes proposes a new and more complex model for understanding the transition from hunting and gathering to cultivation. It argues that such developments evolved regionally, were fluid and uneven, and were subject to reversal. This book develops these arguments from a large body of archaeological evidence, collected over 30 years in two valleys in northern Peru, and then places the valleys in the context of recent scholarship studying similar developments around the world.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , The central Andean coastal plains and foothills -- , Environment and boundary of the study area -- , Cultural phase chronology -- , Setting the stage in the study area -- , Some guiding conceptual issues -- , Clarifications and the book's organization -- , Research history, methods, and site types / , Project methods -- , Definition of site types -- , Spatial and temporal boundaries of sites -- , 3. , Pleistocene and Holocene environments from the Zaña to the Chicama valleys 25,000 to 6,000 years ago / , An overview of climate in Northern South America from the late glacial maximum to the mid-Holocene -- , Biogeography of the Northern Andes from the Pleistocene/Holocene transition to the mid-Holocene -- , Environmental records in the study region -- , Entomological indicators for paleoclimate -- , Stable carbon isotope assays -- , El Palto phase (13800-9800 BP) / , El Palto subphase (~13800-11700 BP) -- , Pircas phase (9800-7800 BP) / , Environmental setting -- , Architecture and features -- , Human remains -- , House gardens -- , Other subsistence -- , The Nanchoc lithic tradition -- , Ritualization -- , Tierra Blanca phase (7800-5000 BP) / , Environment and settlement pattern -- , Subsistence patterns -- , Technology -- , Domestic architecture -- , Public architecture -- , Burial patterns/treatment of the dead -- , Preceramic mounds and hillside villages / , Cementerio de Nanchoc site: CA-09-04 -- , Non-mound excavation and workshop in zone B -- , Geo-chemical and micro-residue evidence for calcite (lime or cal) productions -- , Geophysical survey -- , Comparative implications of the cementerio de Nanchoc mounds -- , The terminal preceramic period at the hillside side of Cerro Guitarra (PV-19-54) -- , Human remains / , El Plato phase -- , Pircas phase -- , Tierra Blanca phase -- , The question of cannibalism -- , Preceramic plant gathering, gardening, and farming / , Conceptual beginnings -- , Environmental setting -- , El Plato phase -- , Pircas phase -- , Pircas phase plant use -- , Tierra Blanca phase -- , Terminal preceramic phase -- , Modeling early plant use -- , Faunal remains / , Methods -- , Habitats of the exploited fauna -- , Seasonality data -- , Technological considerations -- , Diachronic patterns of faunal exploitation -- , Faunal assemblages and domestic architecture -- , Technologies and material cultures / , Architecture -- , Canals -- , Preserved gardens and agricultural fields -- , Exotic curiosities -- , Chipped copper ore and smelted copper -- , Lithic technology -- , Settlement and landscape patterns / , Spatial variability and phase adaptations -- , Specific site and phase distributions -- , General patterns -- , Intact buried cultural deposits -- , Population dynamics and estimates -- , Population abandonment/aggregation -- , Foraging to farming and community development / , Pathways to farming -- , Early water control -- , The Nanchoc tradition : community land use, exchange, and interaction systems -- , The economic foundations of Andean civilizations -- , Northern Peruvian early and middle preceramic agriculture in Central and South American contexts / , The plants, their source areas, and time lines of appearance -- , The communities that first cultivated and domesticated plants -- , Ritual and technology -- , Social units and levels -- , Supra-household level -- , Landscapes and thresholds -- , Bridgehead communities and intergroup fronts -- , Widening the scope of interaction -- , Small thoughts, big changes -- , Radiocarbon dates for all preceramic phases and subphases -- , Dry forest biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes in northwestern Peru / , Stable carbon isotopes / , Faunal species present in preceramic assemblages by phase in the Jequetepeque and Zaña valleys.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781107005273

Language: English

Subjects: History , Ethnology

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793790

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