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Examines how settlements along South America's Pacific coastline played a role in the emergence, consolidation, and collapse of Andean civilizations from the Late Pleistocene era through Spanish colonization. This wide-ranging volume evaluates and revises long-standing research on ancient maritime sites across the region.

Table of Contents
  • Content
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Historical Perspective on the Studies of Andean Maritime Communities
  • Part I Early Maritime Adaptations (BP 13000 to 5500)
  • Chapter 2. Maritime Communities in the Atacama Desert. Masters of the Sub Tropical Pacific Coast of South America.
  • Chapter 3. Economic Organization and Social Dynamics of Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities in the Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Northern Chile).
  • Chapter 4. The Use and Construction History of Huaca Prieta, North Coast of Peru.
  • Part II Maritime Communities Between 5,500 and 2,500 BP.
  • Chapter 5. Changing Complexity in the Norte Chico, 3000-1800 BCE.
  • Chapter 6. Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization: Preliminary Insights from Early Horizon Samanco, Nepeña, North-Central Peru.
  • Chapter 7. The Supply and Consumption of Marine Resources at the Inland Center of Caylan, Coastal Ancash.
  • Chapter 8. The Fisherman's Garden: Horticultural Practices in a Second Millennium Maritime Community of the North Coast of Peru.
  • Chapter 9. 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.
  • Part III Maritime Communities Between 2,500 and 600 BP.
  • Chapter 10. Fisherman, Farmer, Rich Man, Poor Man, Weaver, Parcialidad Chief? Household Archaeology at Cerro la Virgen, a Chimu Town within the Hinterland of Chan Chan.
  • Chapter 11. Subsistence economies in margin areas with natural constraints: interactions between social dynamics, natural resource management and paleoenvironment in the Sechura Desert, Peru.
  • Chapter 12. Late Prehistoric Maritime Communities in Coastal Ecuador.
  • Part 4. Maritime Communities between 600 and 300 BP.
  • Chapter 13. Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: A Comparison of Late Intermediate and 20th Century Fishing.
  • Chapter 14. El Contrato del Mar: Colonial Life and Maritime Subsistence at Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru.
  • Chapter 15. Fish[i]stories: Seafolk of the Northern Peruvian Coast.
  • NotesList of Contributors
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida
      Publication Date: 1/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813066141, 978-0813066141
      ISBN10: 081306614X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines how settlements along South America's Pacific coastline played a role in the emergence, consolidation, and collapse of Andean civilizations from the Late Pleistocene era through Spanish colonization. This wide-ranging volume evaluates and revises long-standing research on ancient maritime sites across the region.

      Table of Contents
      • Content
      • List of Figures
      • List of Tables
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1. A Historical Perspective on the Studies of Andean Maritime Communities
      • Part I Early Maritime Adaptations (BP 13000 to 5500)
      • Chapter 2. Maritime Communities in the Atacama Desert. Masters of the Sub Tropical Pacific Coast of South America.
      • Chapter 3. Economic Organization and Social Dynamics of Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities in the Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Northern Chile).
      • Chapter 4. The Use and Construction History of Huaca Prieta, North Coast of Peru.
      • Part II Maritime Communities Between 5,500 and 2,500 BP.
      • Chapter 5. Changing Complexity in the Norte Chico, 3000-1800 BCE.
      • Chapter 6. Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization: Preliminary Insights from Early Horizon Samanco, Nepeña, North-Central Peru.
      • Chapter 7. The Supply and Consumption of Marine Resources at the Inland Center of Caylan, Coastal Ancash.
      • Chapter 8. The Fisherman's Garden: Horticultural Practices in a Second Millennium Maritime Community of the North Coast of Peru.
      • Chapter 9. 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.
      • Part III Maritime Communities Between 2,500 and 600 BP.
      • Chapter 10. Fisherman, Farmer, Rich Man, Poor Man, Weaver, Parcialidad Chief? Household Archaeology at Cerro la Virgen, a Chimu Town within the Hinterland of Chan Chan.
      • Chapter 11. Subsistence economies in margin areas with natural constraints: interactions between social dynamics, natural resource management and paleoenvironment in the Sechura Desert, Peru.
      • Chapter 12. Late Prehistoric Maritime Communities in Coastal Ecuador.
      • Part 4. Maritime Communities between 600 and 300 BP.
      • Chapter 13. Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: A Comparison of Late Intermediate and 20th Century Fishing.
      • Chapter 14. El Contrato del Mar: Colonial Life and Maritime Subsistence at Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru.
      • Chapter 15. Fish[i]stories: Seafolk of the Northern Peruvian Coast.
      • NotesList of Contributors
      • Index

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