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Title

The first South Americans : the peopling of a continent from the earliest evidence to high culture / Danièle Lavallée ; translated by Paul G. Bahn.

Author

Lavallée, Danièle.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2000.

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Description

xii, 260 p. : ill., maps, plans; 26 cm.

Summary

• "In The First South Americans, Daniele Lavallee presents all current evidence and claims for the early traces of a human presence on the continent, surveying the territory from Tierra del Fuego to the Caribbean shores of Colombia and from Brazil to Ecuador. She discusses the continent's earliest occupants, then continues to explore cultural development that include the hunters of the Holocene, the rise of horticulture and animal domestication, maritime adaptations, the Andean development of ceramics and weaving, social stratification, and finally the emergence of the first Andean civilization of Chavin."
• "Lavallee shows how, little by little, people occupied this mosiac of territories over the millennia, sometimes yielding to the constraints of the environment, sometimes controlling and transforming it."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Promesse d'Amérique. English

Alternative Title

• Promesse d'Amérique.
• Peopling of a continent from the earliest evidence to high culture

Subject

• Indians of South America > Antiquities
• Indians of South America > History
• South America > Antiquities

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Translation of Promesse d'Amérique.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-249) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The discovery of a world -- The first occupants -- The time of the hunters -- The Andean boom -- The other side of the cordillera -- Peasants, artisans, priests -- Epilogue : civilization.

ISBN

0874806658 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00010190^

OCLC

44509071

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library