Beyond the Nasca Lines
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Beyond the Nasca Lines

Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert

  1. 313 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beyond the Nasca Lines

Ancient Life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert

About this book

Inhabited for over 5,000 years before European colonization, the site of La Tiza in Peru's Nasca Desert provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the dynamics of ancient complex societies. This volume takes a long temporal perspective on La Tiza from the Preceramic through the Inca era, studying the site within the context of broader developments such as the rise of Nasca culture, subsequent conquest by the Wari Empire, collapse, abandonment, and the reformation of a new society.

Christina Conlee synthesizes data she obtained while directing a multi-year excavation at the site with data from other investigations to reconstruct the development of social complexity over time. She includes detailed descriptions of the stratigraphy and artifacts, carefully separating materials from each period. Exploring how political integration, religious practices, economics, and the environment shaped societal transformations at La Tiza, Conlee offers patterns that can be found in other areas and can be used to understand the development of other long-lasting civilizations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Beyond the Nasca Lines
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. Ancient Society in Nasca: An Introduction
  10. 2. The Dynamics of Complex Societies
  11. 3. Life in the Nasca Desert
  12. 4. Earliest Inhabitants: The Beginnings of Complexity
  13. 5. Farmers in the Desert: The Development of Complexity
  14. 6. The Nasca Culture: Civilization in the Desert
  15. 7. The Middle Horizon: Imperial Entanglement and Collapse
  16. 8. Local Resurgence: The Regeneration of Complexity
  17. 9. The Rise and Fall of Complex Societies in Nasca
  18. References
  19. Index