Isbell, William H.
The Handbook of South American Archaeology
I. Introduction
1. Continental Introduction
Helaine Silverman
II. Early Occupations Of South America
2. Profiles in Pleistocene History
Tom D. Dillehay
3. Chinchorro Culture: Pioneers of the Coast of the Atacama Desert
Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, Vicki Cassman, Calogero M. Santoro
4. Early Occupations in the Southern Cone
Luis Alberto Borrero
5. The Process of Sedentism in Northwestern South America
J. Scott Raymond
III. Environment And Subsistence
6. Central Andean Environments
Daniel H. Sandweiss, James B. Richardson
7. Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes
Deborah M. Pearsall
8. Animal Domestication in South America
Peter W. Stahl
9. High Elevation Foraging Societies
Mark S. Aldenderfer
10. Early Fishing Societies in Western South America
Daniel H. Sandweiss
11. Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape
Clark L. Erickson
12. The Archaeology of Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia
José R. Oliver
13. Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast
Stéphen Rostain
14. The Pampas and Campos of South America
Gustavo Politis
IV. Lowland Moundbuilders
15. Pre-Columbian Mound Complexes in the Upano River Valley, Lowland Ecuador
Ernesto Salazar
16. The Archaeology of the Guianas: An Overview
Stéphen Rostain
17. Barrancoid and Arauquinoid Mound Builders in Coastal Suriname
Aad H. Versteeg
18. Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil
Maria Dulce Gaspar, Paulo DeBlasis, Suzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish
V. Continental Variations In Non-State Complexity
19. The Nonagricultural Chiefdoms of Marajó Island
Denise Pahl Schaan
20. Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-term History, and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain
Eduardo Góes Neves
21. Chiefdoms of Southwestern Colombia
Robert D. Drennan
22. Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Northern Colombia and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes
Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo
23. The Prehistory of Venezuela – Not Necessarily an Intermediate Area
Rodrigo Navarrete
24. The Ecuadorian Formative
James A. Zeidler
25. Early Regional Polities of Coastal Ecuador
Maria A. Masucci
26. Late Pre-Hispanic Polities of Coastal Ecuador
Colin McEwan, Florencio Delgado-Espinoza
27. Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Highland Ecuador
Tamara L. Bray
28. The Formative Period in the Titicaca Basin
Christine A. Hastorf
29. Paracas and Nasca: Regional Cultures on the South Coast of Peru
Donald A. Proulx
30. Social Landscapes in Pre-Inca Northwestern Argentina
Juan B. Leoni, Félix A. Acuto
VI. Demographic And Cultural Expansions
31. Early Cultural Complexity on the Coast of Peru
Shelia Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski
32. Andean Urbanism
Krzysztof Makowski
33. The Tupi Expansion
Francisco Silva Noelli
34. Life on the Move: Bioarchaeological Contributions to the Study of Migration and Diaspora Communities in the Andes
Tiffiny A. Tung
35. Chavín de Huántar and Its Sphere of Influence
Richard L. Burger
VII. States And Empires Of The Central Andes
36. The Mochicas
Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Santiago Uceda Castillo
37. Wari and Tiwanaku: International Identities in the Central Andean Middle Horizon
William H. Isbell
38. Between Horizons: Diverse Configurations of Society and Power in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Andes
Jalh Dulanto
39. The Chimú Empire
Jerry D. Moore, Carol J. Mackey
40. The Inca Empire
R. Alan Covey
41. The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord Record Keeping in the Andes
Gary Urton
42. Experiencing Inca Domination in Northwestern Argentina and the Southern Andes
Félix A. Acuto
VIII. Interactions
43. Inter-zonal Relationships in Ecuador
Francisco Valdez
44. Cultural Boundaries and Crossings: Ecuador and Peru
Jean Guffroy
45. Chachapoyas: Cultural Development at an Andean Cloud Forest Crossroads
Warren B. Church, Adriana Hagen
46. The Llanos de Mojos
John H. Walker
47. Amazonian Mosaics: Identity, Interaction, and Integration in the Tropical Forest
Michael J. Heckenberger
48. The Archaeology of Northern Chile
Mario A. Rivera
49. Interaction and Social Fields in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile
Emily Stovel
IX. Death Practices And Beliefs
50. Prehistoric Funeral Practices in the Brazilian Amazon: The Maracá Urns
Vera Guapindaia
51. Ancestor Images in the Andes
George F. Lau
52. Trophy Head-Taking and Human Sacrifice in Andean South America
John W. Verano
X. Ethics And Practice In South American Archaeology
53. Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador
O. Hugo Benavides
54. Cultural Heritage Management in Peru: Current and Future Challenges
Alvaro Higueras
55. The Bennett Monolith: Archaeological Patrimony and Cultural Restitution in Bolivia
Isabel Scarborough
56. Modernity and Politics in Colombian Archaeology
Cristóbal Gnecco
57. From the Erasure to the Rewriting of Indigenous Pasts: The Troubled Life of Archaeology in Uruguay
Gustavo Verdesio
58. Public Archaeology and Management of the Brazilian Archaeological-Cultural Heritage
Rossano Lopes Bastos, Pedro Paulo A. Funari
XI. Conclusion
59. Conclusion
William H. Isbell
Keywords: Social Sciences, general, Archaeology, Anthropology
- Author(s)
- Isbell, William H.
- Silverman, Helaine
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 1217 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780387749075