BAR Publishing, 2015. — 91 p. — (BAR International Series 2739/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 41). The Moche art style is best known through its highly refined ceramic vessels, which frequently accompanied burials. Estimates suggest that there are over 100,000 Moche vessels in museum and private collections worldwide (Donnan 1976: 13). The vessels, often decorated in...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 187 p. — (BAR International Series 2743). Evolutionary and ecological processes are important for modelling the patterns of morphological variation among human populations. Within the ecological dimensions, diet plays a key role in craniofacial variation, due both to the effect of the type and amount of nutrients consumed, on skeletal growth and the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 205 p. — (BAR International Series 2751). Studies of social complexity increasingly recognize the role of maritime communities in the development of large sociopolitical systems. The Central Andes present an ideal region for understanding maritime aspects of ancient social complexity, due to oneof the most productive sea biomasses in the world. In this...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 208 p. — (BAR International Series 2758/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 44). The history of European settlement of South Americas has been the subject of much historical, archaeological and anthropological research. Guianas in the Amazon region, however life and society in the pre-Columbianperiod remain comparatively neglected topics. Though the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 211 p. — (BAR International Series 2776). The strategies of production and consumption of lithic artifacts implemented by the hunter-gatherer societies who participated in the first peopling (final Pleistocene - 13,000/10,000 BP - and early Holocene - 10,000/7500 BP) of the southern end of the American continent are investigated in this book. The...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 195 p. — (BAR International Series 2803). This book deals with the disappearance of the Aguada Culture in the Catamarca Province Northwestern Argentina, focusing of the abandonment of several settlements in the Ambato Valley, which has shown evidence of fire and a rapid abandonment dated to around 900-1000 AD. A new method of analysing forest fires using...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 126 p. — (BAR International Series 2808). This volume presents current trends in the application of scientific methods to ceramic analysis throughout South America. Reports from ongoing ceramic research in the area capture the wide array of methods incorporated as a normal part of research in most countries while reflecting national variation in their...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 189 p. — (BAR International Series 2816). El siguiente estudio se focaliza en las modalidades de uso de las tecnologías líticas manufacturadas por diferentes grupos cazadores-recolectores, que habitaron la Meseta Central de Santa Cruz (Argentina), desde la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno al Holoceno Tardío (ca. 13.000 años C14 AP hasta tiempos...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 141 p. — (BAR International Series 2823). This is an archaeological study of social organization and change in a late prehispanic population of northern Chile. The research involves contextual examination of the occurrence of highland ceramic styles and materials and drawing inferences concerning local socio-political structures. Excavation at four sites...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 489 p. — (BAR International Series 2441). Volume 3 in this series on Pre-Columbian figurines concentrates on pottery figurines from the south coast, the highlands and the 'Selva' (tropical rain forests) of Peru. It details a collection of 784 figurines: 536 from the South Coast, 230 from the Sierra and 18 from the Selva. The main aim of this work has...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 437 p. — (BAR International Series 1941). Pre-Columbian pottery figurines from Peru occur in astonishingly large numbers in museum and private collections. However in the published literature they generally occupy a place of 'also ran'. The reason for this may be that because of their scarcity in controlled excavations their potential importance has been...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 199 p. — (BAR International Series 2957). El objetivo principal de este libro es brindar una aproximación al modo de vida y muerte de la gente común de la bahía de Ancón, ubicada en la Costa Central del Perú, quiénes vivieron y murieron bajo el dominio del imperio Wari e Inca, como también bajo el grupo local autónomo Chancay (800-1532d.C). Para esta...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 209 p. — (BAR International Series 2993). Este libro presenta la investigación sobre la explotación alimenticia y tecnológica de restos de artiodáctilos, Hippocamelus bisulcus (huemul) y Lama guanicoe (guanaco) provenientes de contextos arqueológicos heterogéneos del Holoceno medio y tardío de Fuego-Patagonia en Chile. Análisis específicos...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 181 p. — (BAR International Series 3003). En este libro se presentan y discuten resultados de estudios sobre diagénesis ósea en restos humanos y de mamíferos grandes, recuperados en una región subtropical del sur de Sudamérica: el centro-este de Argentina. Tales estudios se llevaron a cabo desde la perspectiva teórico-metodológica de la tafonomía...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 164 p. — (BAR International Series 3109). The Early Regional Development (100 BC-AD 300) funerary precinct at Salango, on the central coast of Ecuador, was situated at the point of convergence of the Bahía II and Early Guangala culture zones. With plentiful line drawings and colour photographs, this book uses pottery from the precinct to present a...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 225 p. — (BAR International Series 3114). En este libro se presentan los resultados del análisis de las representaciones sociales y la patrimonialización del registro arqueológico del pasado indígena en el Área de Ventania de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. La investigación se caracteriza por su transdisciplinariedad, dentro de la cual dialogan...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 331 p. — (BAR International Series 2966/Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology 1). Ce livre propose de réexaminer l’étude de l’occupation du basin lacustre du lac Titicaca durant la période Tiwanaku (500-1150 PCN) en développant le concept de paysage culturel lacustre. Souvent considérées comme des ‘cultures de la terre’ (agriculture,...
Sidestone Press, 2015. — 755 p. Stratigraphic archaeological research in French Guiana is barely 50 years old and has been conducted primarily in the coastal zone, stretching approximately between 5 and 50 kilometres from the Atlantic coast to the Precambrian Shield. This bias, mainly caused by means of modern infrastructure, has sketched an archaeological record concerning...
Sidestone Press, 2016. — 276 p. — (Taboui 4). Cet ouvrage documente le réseau commercial de la Guyane de l’Ancien Régime par l’analyse du mobilier archéologique issu des fouilles de six habitations guyanaises, de même que par l’exploitation des archives de la correspondance officielle de la Guyane entre 1688 et 1794 qui fournissent des informations essentielles quant au trafic...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2007. — 257 p. — (Monograph 59). Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities in beautifully modeled and painted ceramic vessels, remarkable objects of gold, silver, and copper,...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2008. — 369 p. — (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology: Monograph 61). This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavin phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavin is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a...
Instituto nacional de cultura, proyecto especial arqueológico Caral-Supe, 2003. — 346 p. Caral, una de las más importantes civilizaciones del planeta, fue creada por el trabajo organizado de sus pobladores en un territorio de configuraciones geográficas singulares. Muchos conocen Cusco como la capital del imperio Inca y Machu Picchu como el predio de uno de los últimos incas;...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 1992. — 110 p. Este libro reseña los resultados de las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas en la pirámide de Akapana en Tiwanaku, Bolivia, durante los años de 1988 y 1989. La pirámide es la estructura principal del centro preincaico de Tiwanaku en el altiplano boliviano, que tuvo su auge en...
University of Michigan, 2013. — 401 p. — (Memoirs 53). This monograph is based on six months of systematic regional survey in the Wanka Region of Peru’s sierra central, carried out in two field seasons in 1975–1976 by the Junin Archaeological Research Project (JASP) under the co-direction of Jeffrey R. Parsons (University of Michigan) and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Universidad...
University of Michigan, 2000. — 564 p. — (Memoirs 34). An archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru’s rugged and diverse central highlands.
Smithsonian Books, 2015. — 240 p. This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced...
Springer, 2024. — 442 p. — (The Latin American Studies Book Series). This volume includes a selection of papers derived from the IX Conference of the Pampas region of Argentina, held virtually in 2021 in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and organized by the National University of Mar del Plata. Located in the southern cone of South America, the Pampas are vast plain...
Ministerio de Cultura, 2015. — 284 p. La Zona Arqueológica Caral (ZAC) es una institución pública que cuenta con autonomía de gestión científica, administrativa y financiera. Fue creada mediante el Decreto Supremo 003-2003-ED del 14 de febrero de 2003, ratificado por la Ley 28690 del 18 de marzo de 2006, y adscrita al Ministerio de Cultura, como Unidad Ejecutora 003, desde...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 300 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 33). Cazadores-recolectores del Holoceno medio en las sierras de Tandilia oriental (Argentina) presenta los resultados de una tesis doctoral sobre los grupos cazadores-recolectores que habitaron las sierras de Tandilia oriental (Argentina) durante el periodo del Holoceno medio. En este estudio se analizaron las...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 236 p. La ciudad de Buenos Aires, fundada en 1580, tras un intento fallido previo, fue establecida sobre una meseta natural frente al caudaloso Río de la Plata, con un pequeño puerto natural ubicado en un río cercano llamado Riachuelo. La presencia de población originaria en el lugar es un tema de discusión en este libro. La región era parte del sistema...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 368 p. — (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology). The Andean region is among the most fascinating and well-known centers of civilization. While understanding the Andes in local terms is crucial, Andean prehistory is also relevant to the comparative study of complex societies worldwide. This book addresses the need to explore the rich history of...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 296 p. — (BAR International Series 2969/Archaeology of Prehistoric Art 2). As landscape art, the rock art of the central Andes offers clues regarding relationships between ancestor veneration and the negotiation of rights to water. To understand these relationships this book focuses on a large complement of rock art situated in highland Ancash, Peru,...
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 1985. — 212 p. — (Technical Reports 16). In this volume, Robert D. Drennan presents a preliminary report on his survey and excavation in the mountainous area of western Colombia in 1984. Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata contains a thorough description of the region's landscape, including geology, soils,...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 391 p. — (BAR International Series 2748/Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 42). Around the tenth century AD, the Chimú culture emerged along the arid northern coast of Peru. In the fifteenth century AD, at its peak, the Chinú kingdom expanded over hundreds of kilometres, was controlled by a network of administrative centres from Chan Chan, the...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 260 p. Este libro presenta los resultados obtenidos durante los estudios geoarqueológicos realizados en la localidad Touro Passo, municipio de Uruguaiana, Brasil. Alli se reubicaron los sitios paleoindios estudiados por el equipo del PRONAPA-Programa Nacional de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en las décadas de 1960 y 1970 y han sido reconocidos otros con...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 165 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 25). This book is about how hunter-gatherer groups maintained a relationship with the use and management of fire in the Late Holocene of Southern Precordillera. The line of study developed here as part of the anthracology made use of methodologically systematic analysis of the remains of charcoal from the...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 258 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 26). As part of a series of research projects on the Archaeology of hunter-gatherers societies in the Southern Pampean Hills this presents, among other things, the study of various aspects of the organization of lithic technology and strategies for the use of lithic resources by prehistoric populations. This is...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 222 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 27). El presente libro tiene como objetivo estudiar el uso de las materias primas líticas en la costa del golfo San Matías (Río Negro, Argentina) durante el Holoceno medio y tardío. El entendimiento de este aspecto de la tecnología de los grupos humanos es de fundamental importancia ya que los principales...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 258 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 29). El estudio se llevó a cabo en dos instancias. La primera desarrollada entre los meses de Abril y Junio de 2014, consistiendo en diversas acciones relacionadas con la excavación arqueológica sistemática, el registro, conservación e interpretación de la cultura material recuperada a profundidades comprendidas...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 430 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 28). En su versión original, Magallania es el nombre acuñado por Martinic para definir la región comprendida entre la cuenca del río Santa Cruz al norte hasta la expresión fueguina de la cordillera de los Andes al sur. Es uno de los espacios más australes del mundo y de los últimos en ser ocupados por humanos,...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 284 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 31). This book presents the results and discussion of archaeofaunal studies which took place in the northern San Matías Gulf (Rio Negro Province) during the last six years, focussing on terrestrial mammals and birds. The general objective of this research is to determine what was the mode of operation of...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 244 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 32). This volume presents a series of papers designed to offer a summary of ongoing research across Argentina that can come under the broad heading of Rural Archaeology. La vida cotidiana y su materialidad en Alexandra Colony. Alejandra, Santa Fe, Argentina – I. Dosztal "La 26 al fondo": historias de un lugar –...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 226 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 30). La meta de este libro es aportar al desarrollo de una metodología para abordar el estudio de artefactos arqueológicos de cuarzo, focalizándose en la combinación de diversas herramientas analíticas que permitan estudiar estos utensilios y contribuir así a una mejor comprensión de las estrategias tecnológicas...
Routledge, 2016. — 306 p. An Archaeology of Ancash is a well-illustrated synthesis of the archaeology of north-central Peru and, specifically, the stone remains of the mountainous Ancash region. All the major cultures of highland Ancash built impressive monuments, with no other region of South America showing such an early and continuous commitment to stone carving. Drawing on...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 114 p. — (South American Archaeology Series 24). This book collects the contributions to the symposium "The current state of evolutionary archeology in Argentina" that was held in Buenos Aires, for celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species" CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS: IS...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 117 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 51). El sitio Chipana-1, situado en pleno corazón del Desierto de Atacama en la Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT) a 1200 msnm, refleja la adaptación de antiguas sociedades humanas a un ambiente hiper-árido, y aporta nuevos datos al debate sobre las primeras ocupaciones humanas en América del Sur. La buena...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 78 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 52). Les objets n’ont pas un seul objectif. Prémisse centrale qui guide le dénouement de ce livre. Dans les pages suivantes le lecteur trouvera une réflexion sur une société des chasseurs-collecteurs marins à partir d’un de ces biens matériaux iconiques et un des plus importantes, le harpon. Cet objet...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 74 p. This work presents an anthropological study of crania and mandibles from the osteological collection from Chinchero (Peru), currently housed at the American Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1968 to 1971, a team of archaeologists of the Spanish Scientific Mission in Hispanic America excavated the...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 248 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 47). Ubicado en el noroeste de Suramérica (Ecuador), el valle del río Cuyes constituye una zona de transición entre los Andes y la Amazonia. La presente investigación busca determinar el origen étnico de los habitantes precolombinos del valle a través de la aplicación de un método de análisis cerámico...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 472 p. — (Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 57). Durante el período prehispánico, la costa norte del Perú contempló el desarrollo de numerosas sociedades con ricas producciones artesanales, como las de las poblaciones Virú-Gallinazo y Mochica que coexistieron durante el primer milenio de nuestra era. En esta región, el análisis de las formas y...