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Prehistory Of The Ica-Nazca Littoral, Peru, Patrick Henry Carmichael, Alana Cordy-Collins
Prehistory Of The Ica-Nazca Littoral, Peru, Patrick Henry Carmichael, Alana Cordy-Collins
Andean Past Special Publications
Maritime resources played a significant economic role in the prehistoric coastal communities of Central and Northern Peru, and, prior to the current study, it was reasonable to assume they were equally important on the South Coast. In the 1980s, researchers postulated that the Nasca culture of the Early Intermediate Period was a state-level society based on inland agriculture, heavily augmented by aquatic foodstuffs gathered and processed at coastal settlements. Carmichael calls this the Nasca Maritime Hypothesis. It envisioned permanent, ocean front towns providing massive amounts of marine resources to inland centers, in exchange for agricultural produce. The research reported here …
Perspectives On Andean Prehistory And Protohistory: Papers From The Third Annual Northeast Conference On Andean Archaeology And Ethnohistory, Daniel H. Sandweiss, D. Peter Kvietok, Patricia Netherly, Michael A. Malpass, Dwight T. Wallace, Richard E. Daggett, John R. Topic, Tom D. Dillehay, Lawrence Kaplan, Elizabeth Bonnier, Coreen E. Chiswell, Stuart V. Arnold, Monica Barnes
Perspectives On Andean Prehistory And Protohistory: Papers From The Third Annual Northeast Conference On Andean Archaeology And Ethnohistory, Daniel H. Sandweiss, D. Peter Kvietok, Patricia Netherly, Michael A. Malpass, Dwight T. Wallace, Richard E. Daggett, John R. Topic, Tom D. Dillehay, Lawrence Kaplan, Elizabeth Bonnier, Coreen E. Chiswell, Stuart V. Arnold, Monica Barnes
Andean Past Special Publications
This volume represents eight of the eighteen papers presented at the Third Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on October 27 and 28, 1984. It also includes a paper presented at the Second NCAAE held at the American Museum of Natural History on November 19-20, 1983. The papers include: "Wandering Shellfish: New Insights from Southeastern Coastal Ecuador" by Patricia Netherly, "Late Prehistoric Terracing at Chijra in the Collca Valley, Peru: Preliminary Report I" by Michael A. Malpass, "The Topara Tradition: An Overview" by Dwight T. Wallace, "The Peruvian North Central Coast During …