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Coastal ecosystems and economic strategies at Cerro Azul, Peru : the study of a late intermediate kingdom / edited by Joyce Marcus.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; no. 59.
- Studies in Latin American ethnohistory & archaeology ; v. 12.
- Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; number 59
- Studies in Latin American ethnohistory & archaeology ; volume XII
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnoarchaeology.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Economic conditions.
- Antiquities.
- Animal remains (Archaeology).
- Plant remains (Archaeology).
- Coastal ecology.
- History.
- Biotic communities.
- Environmental archaeology.
- Coastal archaeology.
- Cerro Azul Site (Peru).
- Coastal archaeology--Peru--Cerro Azul Region.
- Environmental archaeology--Peru--Cerro Azul Region.
- Biotic communities--Peru--Cerro Azul Region--History--To 1500.
- Coastal ecology--Peru--Cerro Azul Region--History--To 1500.
- Plant remains (Archaeology)--Peru--Cerro Azul Region.
- Animal remains (Archaeology)--Peru--Cerro Azul Region.
- Indigenous peoples--Peru--Cerro Azul Region--Antiquities.
- Indigenous peoples--Peru--Cerro Azul Region--Economic conditions.
- Ethnoarchaeology--Peru--Cerro Azul Region.
- Indians of South America--Antiquities.
- Indians of South America--Economic conditions.
- Peru--Cerro Azul Site.
- Peru.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Cerro Azul, a pre-Inca fishing community in the Kingdom of Huarco, Peru, stood at the interface between a rich marine ecosystem and an irrigated coastal plain. Under the direction of its noble families, Cerro Azul dried millions of fish for shipment to inland communities, from which it received agricultural products and dried llama meat. In this richly illustrated volume, a team of paleoethnobotanists and zooarchaeologists analyze the molluscs, crustaceans, fish, birds, mammals, edible and "industrial" plants, and coprolites from Cerro Azul. Making use of recent studies by Peruvian and Chilean ecologists, they reconstruct Cerro Azul's strategies for linking the marine and inland ecosystems."-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Part I. An introduction to the Kingdom of Huarco and its ecosystems
- The ecosystems of the Kingdom of Huarco / Joyce Marcus
- Provenience and context of the plant and animal remains at Cerro Azul / Joyce Marcus
- Part II. How Cerro Azul made use of trophic levels 2, 3, and 4
- The collection of shellfish / Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus
- The collection of crustaceans / Kent V. Flannery and Jeffrey D. Sommer
- Crayfish trapping / Joyce Marcus and Ramiro Matos
- The fish resources of Cerro Azul in the 1980s / Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus
- Fishing strategies and fishing gear / Joyce Marcus
- The drying of fish for export / Joyce Marcus
- The archaeological fish remains from Cerro Azul / Jeffrey D. Sommer and Kent V. Flannery
- The hunting of birds and mammals / Joyce Marcus
- The bird life of Cañete and the avifauna of Cerro Azul / Joyce Marcus and Christopher P. Glew
- The hunting of marine mammals / Christopher P. Glew and Kent V. Flannery
- Part III. The use of plants at Cerro Azul
- Edible, ritual, and medicinal plants / C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Joyce Marcus
- Comments on the late Intermediate maize / C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Joyce Marcus
- Phaseolus and erythrina from Cerro Azul / Lawrence Kaplan
- Industrial plants / C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Joyce Marcus
- Part IV. The domestic animals, their skeletal remains, and their by-products
- Camelids and ch'arki at Cerro Azul / Christopher P. Glew and Kent V. Flannery
- Domestic dogs / Kent V. Flannery and Christopher P. Glew
- The raising of guinea pigs / Christopher P. Glew and Kent V. Flannery
- Macrofossil and palynological analysis of the coprolites from Cerro Azul / John G. Jones
- Part V. The interface of ecology and economy
- The economy of the Kingdom of Huarco / Joyce Marcus
- Appendix A: Artisanal fishing at Cerro Azul, 1984-86 / Khalid Kattan, Robert G. Reynolds, and Joyce Marcus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-370) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9781951519674
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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