Political landscapes of the late intermediate period in the southern Andes : the pukaras and their hinterlands / Alina Álvarez Larrain, Catriel Greco, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Álvarez Larrain, Alina, editor.

Greco, Catriel, editor.

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Argentina (19th : 2016 : San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina), issuing body.

Series:

Latin American studies book series

The Latin American studies book series, 2366-3421

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Politics and government.

Indians of South America.

Politics and government.

Land use.

History.

Social archaeology.

Landscape archaeology.

Indians of South America--Dwellings.

Andes Region.

Indians of South America--Dwellings--Andes Region.

Landscape archaeology--Andes Region.

Social archaeology--Andes Region.

Land use--Andes Region--History.

Indians of South America--Argentina--Antiquities.

Argentina.

Antiquities.

Indians of South America--Chile--Antiquities.

Chile.

Andes Region--Antiquities.

Southern Cone of South America--Antiquities.

Southern Cone of South America.

Andes--Politics and government.

Andes.

Argentina--Politics and government.

Chile--Politics and government.

Bolivia--Politics and government.

Bolivia.

Indians of South America--Politics and government.

Indians of South America--Antiquities.

South America--Southern Cone of South America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing AG, [2018]

Summary:

This book studies the relationship between pukaras and their surrounding landscape, focusing on the architectural and settlement variability registered in both contexts. It is the outcome of a symposium held at the XIX National Congress of Argentine Archaeology (San Miguel de Tucuman, August 8-12, 2016) entitled, "Pukaras, strategic settlements and dispersed settlements: Political landscapes of the Late Intermediate Period in the Southern Andes." Based on the topics discussed at the event, this book presents nine case studies covering a large geographic area within the Southern Andes (northwestern Argentina, northern Chile and southern Bolivia), and breaking the national barriers that tend to atomize pre-Hispanic landscapes. The respective chapters cover a wide range of themes: from architectural and settlement variability, ways to build and inhabit space, social segmentation and hierarchy; to endemic conflict, analysis of accessibility and visibility, spatiality and temporality ofhern Chile) / Cristián González-Rodríguez -- Interethnic conflicts in the highlands of northwestern Argentina during the late intermediate period: a case study / María Ester Albeck, María Elena de los Ángeles Tejerina, Domingo Chorolque, José Luis Tolaba and Paula Arévalo -- An approach to spatial configuration in the regional developments period in the Coranzulí area (Jujuy Province, Argentina) / María Carolina Rivet -- Agropastoral taskscapes and seasonal warfare in the southern Andes during the regional developments period (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries) / Axel E. Nielsen. landscapes; as well as new dating. This book goes beyond the Late Intermediate Period (LIP) analyses from the perspective of fortified settlements and material evidence related to war, by placing the focus on how ancient political landscapes were constructed from the relation between the pukaras and other sites as part of the same territory. The methodologies used include pedestrian surveys, photogrammetric surveys with UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) or drones, topographic and architectural surveys, excavations of households, ceramic and rock art analysis, and spatial analysis with geographic information systems (GISs). Given the numerous thematic interconnections between the contributions, the Editors have organized the chapters geographically, moving from south to north: from the southern valleys of Catamarca Province in Argentina to Lipez in the southern part of the Bolivian Altiplano, passing through the Calchaqui valleys of Catamarca, the puna and Quebrada de Humahuaca of Jujuy ile) / Cristián González-Rodríguez -- Interethnic conflicts in the highlands of northwestern Argentina during the late intermediate period: a case study / María Ester Albeck, María Elena de los Ángeles Tejerina, Domingo Chorolque, José Luis Tolaba and Paula Arévalo -- An approach to spatial configuration in the regional developments period in the Coranzulí area (Jujuy Province, Argentina) / María Carolina Rivet -- Agropastoral taskscapes and seasonal warfare in the southern Andes during the regional developments period (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries) / Axel E. Nielsen. n northwest Argentina and the Antofagasta region in northern Chile. The book provides valuable new theoretical and methodological perspectives on the study of political landscapes of the Late Intermediate Period in the Southern Andes.

Contents:

Introduction / Alina Álvarez Larrain, Catriel Greco and Federico Wynveldt

Defensibility analysis with geographical information systems in a pukara in the Hualfín Valley, Argentina / Federico Wynveldt, Juan Manuel Sallés and Luciano López

Photogrammetric survey with UAV of strategic villages of Yocavil (Catamarca, Argentina) / Catriel Greco

Chacras of the pukara : the late occupation (tenth-sixteenth centuries) of Mesada de Andalhuala Banda, Yocavil (Catamarca, Argentina) / Alina Álvarez Larrain

The monumentalization of dwelling spaces in west-central Santa María Valley during the late intermediate period (AD 1000-1450), northwest Argentina / Victoria Coll Moritan

Regional dynamics in the high quebradas of the Valle Calchaquí Medio (Salta, Argentina) between the eleventh and early seventeenth centuries / Verónica Isabel Williams

New approaches to the chullparian architecture and their spatial location within Pucará de Turi (Antofagasta region, northern Chile) / Cristián González-Rodríguez

Interethnic conflicts in the highlands of northwestern Argentina during the late intermediate period: a case study / María Ester Albeck, María Elena de los Ángeles Tejerina, Domingo Chorolque, José Luis Tolaba and Paula Arévalo

An approach to spatial configuration in the regional developments period in the Coranzulí area (Jujuy Province, Argentina) / María Carolina Rivet

Agropastoral taskscapes and seasonal warfare in the southern Andes during the regional developments period (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries) / Axel E. Nielsen.

Notes:

Outgrowth of a symposium entitled "Pukaras, strategic towns, and dispersed settlements: Political landscapes of the Late Intermediate Period in the Southern Andes," organized by the editors and held at the 19th National Congress of Argentine Archaeology in San Miguel de Tucuman, August 8-12, 2016. (Introduction)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3319767283

9783319767284

OCLC:

1022085192