Archaeology in Latin America
By: edited by Gustavo G. Politis and Benjamin Alberti.
Contributors: Politis, Gustavo.; Alberti, Benjamin, 1968-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Antiquities; Archaeology -- Latin America; Indians -- Antiquities; Latin America -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Brazilian archaeology: a reappraisal / Pedro Paulo A. Funari; title: Some aspects of the French influence upon Uruguayan and Brazilian archaeology / José  M. López Mazz; title: Archaeology as a social science: its expression in Latin America / Iraida Vargas Arenas and Mario Sanoja; title: The archaeology of hunter-gatherers in South America: recent history and new directions / José Luis Lanata and Luis Alberto Borrero; title: The emergence of complex urban societies in central Mexico: the case of Teotihuacan / Linda Manzanilla; title: The domestication of Andean camelids / Duccio Bonavia; title: Early modes of life of the indigenous population of northeastern Venezuela / Mario Sanoja and Iraida Vargas Arenas; title: Tawantinsuyu: the frontiers of the Inca empire / Rodolfo Raffino and Rubén Stehberg; title: The archaeological culture of San Agustin: towards a new interpretation / César Velandia; title: Changing perspectives in Amazonian archaeology / Eduardo G. Neves; title: Pre-Columbian metallurgy and social change: two case studies from Colombia / Carl Henrik Langebaek R.; title: Archaeology and historical multivocality: a reflection from the Colombian multicultural context / Cristóbal Gnecco.