Research Catalog

Title

From foraging to farming in the Andes : new perspectives on food production and social organization / edited by Tom D. Dillehay ; contributors, Peter Kaulicke ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Dillehay, Tom D.
• Kaulicke, Peter.

Description

xviii, 361 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 26 cm.

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"--

Subjects

• Hunting and gathering societies > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley
• Plant remains (Archaeology) > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley
• Indians of South America > Agriculture > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley
• Plants, Cultivated > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley
• Jequetepeque River Valley (Peru) > Antiquities
• Agriculture > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley > Origin
• Indians of South America > Food > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley
• Irrigation farming > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Peru > Jequetepeque River Valley

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Foreword Peter Kaulicke; 1. Introduction Tom D. Dillehay; 2. Research history, methods, and site types Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen and Greg Maggard; 3. Pleistocene and Holocene environments Patricia J. Netherly; 4. El Palto phase Greg Maggard and Tom D. Dillehay; 5. Las Pircas phase Jack Rossen; 6. Tierra Blanca phase Kary Stackelbeck and Tom D. Dillehay; 7. Preceramic mounds and hillside villages Tom D. Dillehay, Patricia J. Netherly and Jack Rossen; 8. Human remains John Verano and Jack Rossen; 9. Preceramic plant use Jack Rossen; 10. Faunal remains Kary Stackelbeck; 11. Material cultures Tom D. Dillehay, Greg Maggard, Jack Rossen and Kary Stackelbeck; 12. Forager and farming land use systems Tom D. Dillehay; 13. From foraging to farming and community development Tom D. Dillehay, Jack Rossen and Kary Stackelbeck; 14. Northern Peruvian early and middle preceramic agriculture in Central and South American context Dolores Piperno; 15. Conclusions Tom D. Dillehay; Appendix 1. Radiocarbon dates from the study area; Appendix 2. Dry forests and biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes of northwestern Peru Patricia J. Netherly; Appendix 3. Stable carbon isotopes Patricia J. Netherly; Appendix 4. Faunal remains from all phases Kary Stackelbeck.

Call Number

JGF 11-35

ISBN

• 9781107005273 (hardback)
• 1107005272 (hardback)

LCCN

2010043693

OCLC

YBP 2010043693

Title

From foraging to farming in the Andes : new perspectives on food production and social organization / edited by Tom D. Dillehay ; contributors, Peter Kaulicke ... [et al.].

Imprint

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dillehay, Tom D.

Kaulicke, Peter.

Research Call Number

JGF 11-35