From foraging to farming in the Andes : new perspectives on food production and social organization /
Dillehay, Tom D.
Kaulicke, Peter.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2011.
"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".
"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".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Indians of South America
Indians of South America
Hunting and gathering societies
Agriculture
Plants, Cultivated
Irrigation farming
Excavations (Archaeology)
Plant remains (Archaeology)