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Life and death at Paloma : society and mortuary practices in a preceramic Peruvian village
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quilter, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites--Peru.
- Indians of South America--Peru--Antiquities.
- Paloma Site (Peru).
- Peru--Antiquities.
- Indians of South America.
- Peru.
- Local Subjects:
- Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites--Peru.
- Indians of South America--Peru--Antiquities.
- Paloma Site (Peru).
- Peru--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Life and Death at Paloma, when published in 1989, was the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village. It remains a valuable resource used by students and scholars of Andean archaeology. Jeffrey Quilter analyzes the life of Paloma's people during the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society and offers a study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and their contents.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword, by Robert A. Benfer; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Climate, Chronology, and Culture in Early Peru; 2. The Site of Paloma; 3. The Archaeological Discoveries at Paloma; 4. Quantitative Analyses of the Paloma Burials; 5. Discussion of Faloma Mortuary Practices; 6. Paloma and Preceramic Cultural History and Processes; Appendix 1. Burial Illustrations and Data; Appendix 2. Supplementary Tables; References Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781587291982
- 1587291983
- OCLC:
- 45729767
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