From Foraging to Farming in the Andes
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From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

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eBook - PDF

From Foraging to Farming in the Andes

New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

About this book

Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.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 period, 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 30 years in two valleys in northern Peru, and then places the valleys in the context of recent scholarship studying similar developments around the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter One: Introduction
  9. Chapter Two: Research History, Methods, and Site Types
  10. Chapter Three: Pleistocene and Holocene Environments from the Zaña to the Chicama Valleys 25,000 to 6,000 Years Ago
  11. Chapter Four: El Palto Phase (13800–9800 bp)
  12. Chapter Five: Las Pircas Phase (9800–7800 bp)
  13. Chapter Six: Tierra Blanca Phase (7800–5000 bp)
  14. Chapter Seven: Preceramic Mounds and Hillside Villages
  15. Chapter Eight: Human Remains
  16. Chapter Nine: Preceramic Plant Gathering, Gardening, and Farming
  17. Chapter Ten: Faunal Remains
  18. Chapter Eleven: Technologies and Material Culture
  19. Chapter Twelve: Settlement and Landscape Patterns
  20. Chapter Thirteen: Foraging to Farming and Community Development
  21. Chapter Fourteen: Northern Peruvian Early and Middle Preceramic Agriculture in Central and South American Contexts
  22. Chapter Fifteen: Conclusions
  23. Appendix One: Radiocarbon Dates for All Preceramic Phases and Subphases
  24. Appendix Two: Dry Forest Biomes of the Coastal Valleys and Lower Western Slopes in Northwestern Peru
  25. Appendix Three: Stable Carbon Isotopes
  26. Appendix Four: Faunal Species Present in Preceramic Assemblages by Phase in the Jequetepeque and Zaña Valleys
  27. References Cited
  28. Index