Handbook of South American Archaeology

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Continental Introduction....Pages 3-26
Profiles in Pleistocene History....Pages 29-43
Chinchorro Culture: Pioneers of the Coast of the Atacama Desert....Pages 45-58
Early Occupations in the Southern Cone....Pages 59-77
The Process of Sedentism in Northwestern South America....Pages 79-90
Central Andean Environments....Pages 93-104
Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes....Pages 105-120
Animal Domestication in South America....Pages 121-130
High Elevation Foraging Societies....Pages 131-143
Early Fishing Societies in Western South America....Pages 145-156
Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape....Pages 157-183
The Archaeology of Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia....Pages 185-216
Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast....Pages 217-233
The Pampas and Campos of South America....Pages 235-260
Pre-Columbian Mound Complexes in the Upano River Valley, Lowland Ecuador....Pages 263-278
The Archaeology of the Guianas: An Overview....Pages 279-302
Barrancoid and Arauquinoid Mound Builders in Coastal Suriname....Pages 303-318
Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil....Pages 319-335
The Nonagricultural Chiefdoms of Marajó Island....Pages 339-357
Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-term History, and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain....Pages 359-379
Chiefdoms of Southwestern Colombia....Pages 381-403
Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Northern Colombia and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes....Pages 405-428
The Prehistory of Venezuela – Not Necessarily an Intermediate Area....Pages 429-458
The Ecuadorian Formative....Pages 459-488
Early Regional Polities of Coastal Ecuador....Pages 489-503
Late Pre-Hispanic Polities of Coastal Ecuador....Pages 505-525
Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Highland Ecuador....Pages 527-543
The Formative Period in the Titicaca Basin....Pages 545-561
Paracas and Nasca: Regional Cultures on the South Coast of Peru....Pages 563-585
Social Landscapes in Pre-Inca Northwestern Argentina....Pages 587-603
Early Cultural Complexity on the Coast of Peru....Pages 607-631
Andean Urbanism....Pages 633-657
The Tupi Expansion....Pages 659-670
Life on the Move: Bioarchaeological Contributions to the Study of Migration and Diaspora Communities in the Andes....Pages 671-680
Chavín de Huántar and Its Sphere of Influence....Pages 681-703
The Mochicas....Pages 707-729
Wari and Tiwanaku: International Identities in the Central Andean Middle Horizon....Pages 731-759
Between Horizons: Diverse Configurations of Society and Power in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Andes....Pages 761-782
The Chimú Empire....Pages 783-807
The Inca Empire....Pages 809-830
The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord Record Keeping in the Andes....Pages 831-843
Experiencing Inca Domination in Northwestern Argentina and the Southern Andes....Pages 845-861
Inter-zonal Relationships in Ecuador....Pages 865-888
Cultural Boundaries and Crossings: Ecuador and Peru....Pages 889-902
Chachapoyas: Cultural Development at an Andean Cloud Forest Crossroads....Pages 903-926
The Llanos de Mojos....Pages 927-939
Amazonian Mosaics: Identity, Interaction, and Integration in the Tropical Forest....Pages 941-961
The Archaeology of Northern Chile....Pages 963-977
Interaction and Social Fields in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile....Pages 979-1002
Prehistoric Funeral Practices in the Brazilian Amazon: The Maracá Urns....Pages 1005-1026
Ancestor Images in the Andes....Pages 1027-1045
Trophy Head-Taking and Human Sacrifice in Andean South America....Pages 1047-1060
Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador....Pages 1063-1072
Cultural Heritage Management in Peru: Current and Future Challenges....Pages 1073-1088
The Bennett Monolith: Archaeological Patrimony and Cultural Restitution in Bolivia....Pages 1089-1101
Modernity and Politics in Colombian Archaeology....Pages 1103-1113
From the Erasure to the Rewriting of Indigenous Pasts: The Troubled Life of Archaeology in Uruguay....Pages 1115-1126
Public Archaeology and Management of the Brazilian Archaeological-Cultural Heritage....Pages 1127-1133
Conclusion....Pages 1137-1157
Back Matter....Pages 1159-1191