Maritime communities of the ancient Andes / edited by Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prieto, Gabriel, editor.

Sandweiss, Daniel H., editor.

Thompson, Victor D., writer of foreword.

Series:

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underwater archaeology--Andes Region.

Underwater archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2020]

Summary:

The main purpose of this book is to evaluate the "state of the art" of the research on ancient maritime communities along the South American Pacific coastline. Using multidisciplinary approaches, this volume spans the earliest occupation in South America to the early years of the Spanish occupation.

Contents:

Introduction: a historical perspective on the studies of Andean maritime communities / Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss

Early maritime adaptations (BP 13000 to 5500)

Maritime communities in the Atacama Desert. Masters of the sub tropical Pacific coast of South America / Calogero M. Santoro, Victoria Castro, Christopher Carter and Daniela Valenzuela

Economic organization and social dynamics of middle-holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher communities in the coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Northern Chile) / Diego Salazar, Carola Flores, Cesar Borie, Laura Olguin, Sandra Rebolledo

Manuel Escobar and Ariadna Cifuentes

The use and construction history of Huaca Prieta, north coast of Peru / Tom D. Dillehay

Maritime communities between 5,500 and 2,500 BP

Changing complexity in the Norte Chico, 3000-1800 bce / Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas

Maritime communities and coastal Andean urbanization: preliminary insights from early horizon Samanco, Nepeña Valley, North-central Peru / Matthew Helmer

The supply and consumption of marine resources at the inland center of Caylán, Coastal Ancash / David Chicoine, Carol Rojas, Victor Vasquez and Teresa Rosales

The fisherman's garden: horticultural practices in a second millennium maritime community of the north coast of Peru / Gabriel Prieto

The ethnogenesis of Pescador identity: the implications of biodistance analyses of initial period (1500 - 1200 BC) human remains from Gramalote Peru, for our understanding of the social and economic dyamics of ancient Andean maritime communities / Richard C. Sutter and Gabriel Prieto

Maritime communities between 2,500 and 600 BP

Fisherman, farmer, rich man, poor man, weaver, parcialidad chief? household archaeology at Cerro la Virgen, a Chimu town within the hinterland of Chan Chan / Brian R. Billman, Dana Bardolph, Jean Hudson and Jesús Briceño Rosario

Subsistence economies in margin areas with natural constraints: interactions between social dynamics, natural resource management and paleoenvironment in the Sechura Desert, Peru / Nicolas Goepfert, Philippe Barez, Aurlien Christol, Patrice Wuscher and Belkys Gutierrez

Late prehistoric maritime communities in coastal Ecuador / Karen E. Stothert, Maria Masucci and Benjamin Carter

Maritime communities between 600 and 300 BP

Maritime adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: a comparison of late intermediate and 20th century fishing / Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery, Jeffrey Sommer and Robert G. Reynolds

El Contrato del Mar: maritime subsistence at Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru / Parker Vanvalkenburgh, Sarah Kennedy, Carol Rojas Vega and Gabriel Hassler

Fish[i]stories: seafolk of the northern Peruvian coast / Susan Elizabeth Ramírez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5835-X

0-8130-5727-2

OCLC:

1137756376