The Handbook of South American Archaeology

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Silverman, Helaine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Isbell, William H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

Handbook of South American Archaeology Edited by Helaine Silverman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA and William H. Isbell State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA The Handbook of South American Archaeology has been created as a major reference work for archaeologi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Continental Introduction
• Early Occupations Of South America
• Profiles in Pleistocene History
• Chinchorro Culture: Pioneers of the Coast of the Atacama Desert
• Early Occupations in the Southern Cone
• The Process of Sedentism in Northwestern South America
• Environment And Subsistence
• Central Andean Environments
• Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes
• Animal Domestication in South America
• High Elevation Foraging Societies
• Early Fishing Societies in Western South America
• Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape
• The Archaeology of Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia
• Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast
• The Pampas and Campos of South America
• Lowland Moundbuilders
• Pre-Columbian Mound Complexes in the Upano River Valley, Lowland Ecuador
• The Archaeology of the Guianas: An Overview
• Barrancoid and Arauquinoid Mound Builders in Coastal Suriname
• Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil
• Continental Variations In Non-State Complexity
• The Nonagricultural Chiefdoms of Marajó Island
• Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-term History, and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain
• Chiefdoms of Southwestern Colombia
• Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Northern Colombia and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes
• The Prehistory of Venezuela – Not Necessarily an Intermediate Area
• The Ecuadorian Formative
• Early Regional Polities of Coastal Ecuador
• Late Pre-Hispanic Polities of Coastal Ecuador
• Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Highland Ecuador
• The Formative Period in the Titicaca Basin
• Paracas and Nasca: Regional Cultures on the South Coast of Peru
• Social Landscapes in Pre-Inca Northwestern Argentina
• Demographic And Cultural Expansions
• Early Cultural Complexity on the Coast of Peru
• Andean Urbanism
• The Tupi Expansion
• Life on the Move: Bioarchaeological Contributions to the Study of Migration and Diaspora Communities in the Andes
• Chavín de Huántar and Its Sphere of Influence
• States And Empires Of The Central Andes
• The Mochicas
• Wari and Tiwanaku: International Identities in the Central Andean Middle Horizon
• Between Horizons: Diverse Configurations of Society and Power in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Andes
• The Chimú Empire
• The Inca Empire
• The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord Record Keeping in the Andes
• Experiencing Inca Domination in Northwestern Argentina and the Southern Andes
• Interactions
• Inter-zonal Relationships in Ecuador
• Cultural Boundaries and Crossings: Ecuador and Peru
• Chachapoyas: Cultural Development at an Andean Cloud Forest Crossroads
• The Llanos de Mojos
• Amazonian Mosaics: Identity, Interaction, and Integration in the Tropical Forest
• The Archaeology of Northern Chile
• Interaction and Social Fields in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile
• Death Practices And Beliefs
• Prehistoric Funeral Practices in the Brazilian Amazon: The Maracá Urns
• Ancestor Images in the Andes
• Trophy Head-Taking and Human Sacrifice in Andean South America
• Ethics And Practice In South American Archaeology
• Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador
• Cultural Heritage Management in Peru: Current and Future Challenges
• The Bennett Monolith: Archaeological Patrimony and Cultural Restitution in Bolivia
• Modernity and Politics in Colombian Archaeology
• From the Erasure to the Rewriting of Indigenous Pasts: The Troubled Life of Archaeology in Uruguay
• Public Archaeology and Management of the Brazilian Archaeological-Cultural Heritage
• Conclusion
• Conclusion.