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Ancient Titicaca : the evolution of complex society in southern Peru and northern Bolivia
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Ancient Titicaca : the evolution of complex society in southern Peru and northern Bolivia

Author: Charles Stanish
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture, to the formation of the Tiwanaku and Pucara civilizations, and to the  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Stanish
ISBN: 0520232453 9780520232457
OCLC Number: 48817789
Description: xxiii, 354 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents: 1. Ancient Collasuyu --
2. The Evolution of Political Economies --
3. The Geography and Paleoecology of the Titicaca Basin --
4. The Ethnography and Ethnohistory of the Titicaca Basin --
5. The History of Archaeological Research in the Titicaca Basin --
6. The Origins and Elaboration of Rank in the Early and Middle Formative Periods --
7. The Rise of Competitive Peer Polities in the Upper Formative Period --
8. The First State of Tiwanaku --
9. The Rise of Complex Agro-Pastoral Societies in the Altiplano Period --
10. Conquest from Outside: The Inca Occupation of the Titicaca Basin --
11. The Evolution of Complex Society in the Titicaca Basin --
App. Selected Terms from the 1612 Aymara Dictionary of Ludovico Bertonio.
Responsibility: Charles Stanish.
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schema:reviewBody""One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture, to the formation of the Tiwanaku and Pucara civilizations, and to the double conquest of the region, first by the powerful neighboring Inca in the fifteenth century and then, a century later, by the Spanish Crown. In this book, based on more than fifteen years of field research in Peru and Bolivia, Charles Stanish brings together a wide range of ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, including material that has not previously been published. This landmark work brings the author's intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology in this region to bear on key theoretical issues in evolutionary anthropology."--Jacket."
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