From foraging to farming in the Andes [electronic resource] : new perspectives on food production and social organization / edited by Tom D. Dillehay ; contributors, Peter Kaulicke ... [et al.].
Dillehay, Tom D.; Kaulicke, Peter.
2011
F3429.1.J46 F76 2011eb
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Title From foraging to farming in the Andes [electronic resource] : new perspectives on food production and social organization / edited by Tom D. Dillehay ; contributors, Peter Kaulicke ... [et al.].
ISBN 9781139078597 (electronic bk.)
1139078593 (electronic bk.)
9781107005273
1107005272
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 361 p.) : ill., maps (some col.)
Call Number F3429.1.J46 F76 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 980/.01
Summary "Archaeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from ca. 13,000 to 6,000 years ago to be important in terms of the appearance of domesticated plants and animals, social differentiation, and a sedentary lifestyle, but there is more to this period than just these developments. During this time, the spread of crop production and other technologies, kinship-based labor projects, mound building, and population aggregation formed ever-changing conditions across the Andes. From Foraging to Farming in the Andes proposes a new and more complex model for understanding the transition from hunting and gathering to cultivation. It argues that such developments evolved regionally, were fluid and uneven, and were subject to reversal. This book develops these arguments from a large body of archaeological evidence, collected over thirty years in two valleys in northern Peru, and then places the valleys in the context of recent scholarship studying similar developments around world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Kaulicke, Peter.
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Foreword / Peter Kaulicke
Introduction / Tom D. Dillehay
Research history, methods, and site types / Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen, and Greg Maggard
Pleistocene and Holocene environments from the Zaña to the Chicama valleys 25,000 to 6,000 years ago / Patricia J. Netherly
El Palto phase (13800-9800 BP) / Greg Maggard and Tom D. Dillehay
Las Pircas phase (9800-7800 BP) / Jack Rossen
Tierra Blanca phase (7800-5000 BP) / Kary Stackelbeck and Tom D. Dillehay
Preceramic mounds and hillside villages / Tom D. Dillehay, Patricia J. Netherly, and Jack Rossen
Human remains / John W. Verano and Jack Rossen
Preceramic plant gathering, gardening and farming / Jack Rossen
Faunal remains / Kary Stackelbeck
Technologies and material cultures / Tom D. Dillehay, Greg Maggard, Jack Rossen, and Kary Stackelbeck
Settlement and landscape patterns / Tom D. Dillehay
Foraging to farming and community development / Tom D. Dillehay, Jack Rossen, and Kary Stackelbeck
Northern Peruvian early and middle preceramic agriculture in Central and South American contexts / Dolores Piperno
Conclusions / Tom D. Dillehay
Appendix 1. Radiocarbon dates for all preceramic phases and subphases
Appendix 2. Dry forest biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes in northwestern Peru / Patricia J. Netherly
Appendix 3. Stable carbon isotopes / Patricia J. Netherly
Appendix 4. Faunal species present in preceramic assemblages by phase in the Jequetepeque and Zaña valleys.

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