Where the Land Meets the Sea : : Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru / / ed. by Tom D. Dillehay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Adovasio, J. M.,; Andrus, C. Fred T.,; Beavins, Rachel,; Benson, Kristin,; Blair, Jessica,; Bonavia, Duccio,; Béarez, Philippe,; Chiou, Katherine L.,; Cummings, Linda Scott,; DeSantis, Larisa R. G.,; Dillehay, Tom D.,; Dufour, Elise,; Farley, Michelle L.,; Feranec, Robert S.,; Franco, Teresa C. B.,; Goodbred, Steven L.,; Grobman, Alexander,; Hastorf, Christine A.,; Holst, Irene,; Illingworth, Jeff,; Iriarte, José,; Latorre, Claudio,; Levi-Lazzarus, Gerson,; Lewis, Cecil,; Maggard, Greg,; Messner, Timothy,; Mink, Phillip,; Moreira, Daniel Fernandes,; Netherly, Patricia J.,; Pino, Mario,; Piperno, Dolores R.,; Pérez-Huerta, Alberto,; Ramírez, Michael,; Rey, Isabel,; Rodríguez, Gabino,; Sawakuchi, André Oliveira,; Silcox, Paige,; Solís, Marilaura López,; Splitstoser, Jeffrey,; Summar, Marshal,; Tham, Teresa Rosales,; Titelbaum, Anne R.,; Tito, Raúl,; Trombret, Olivier,; Tung, Tiffiny A.,; Verano, John W.,; Vásquez, Víctor F.,; Watling, Jennifer,; Wei, Jeixin,; Williams, Jack,
• HerausgeberIn: Dillehay, Tom D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (832 p.)

Huaca Prieta—one the world’s best-known, yet least understood, early maritime mound sites—and other Preceramic sites on the north coast of Peru bear witness to the beginnings of civilization in the Americas. Across more than fourteen millennia of human occupation, the coalescence of maritime, agricultural, and pastoral economies in the north coast settlements set in motion long-term biological and cultural transformations that led to increased social complexity and food production, and later the emergence of preindustrial states and urbanism. These developments make Huaca Prieta a site of global importance in world archaeology. This landmark volume presents the findings of a major archaeological investigation carried out at Huaca Prieta, the nearby mound Paredones, and several Preceramic domestic sites in the lower Chicama Valley between 2006 and 2013 by an interdisciplinary team of more than fifty international specialists. The book’s contributors report on and analyze the extensive material records from the sites, including data on the architecture and spatial patterns; floral, faunal, and lithic remains; textiles; basketry; and more. Using this rich data, they build new models of the social, economic, and ontological practices of these early peoples, who appear to have favored cooperation and living in harmony with the environment over the accumulation of power and the development of ruling elites. This discovery adds a crucial new dimension to our understanding of emergent social complexity, cosmology, and religion in the Neolithic period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Relevance -- Chapter 2 Foundational Understandings -- Chapter 3 Research Design -- Chapter 4 The Environmental Setting, Past and Present -- Chapter 5 Holocene Geology and Paleoenvironmental History of the Lower Chicama Valley -- Chapter 6 Cultural Phases and Radiocarbon Chronology -- Chapter 7 Site Data and Patterns -- Chapter 8 Bioarchaeology of the Huaca Prieta Remains -- Chapter 9 Faunal Remains -- Chapter 10 Plant Remains -- Chapter 11 Nontextile and Nonbasketry Material Culture -- Chapter 12 Twined and Woven Artifacts -- Part 1: Textiles -- Part 2: Basketry and Cordage from Huaca Prieta -- Chapter 13 Outlying Domestic House Mound Sites -- Chapter 14 Continuity, Change, and the Construction of the Early Sangamon Society -- Chapter 15 Beyond Matter to Foundations and Representations -- Appendices -- 1. Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Chronology at Huaca Prieta -- 2. Charcoal Analysis -- 3. Marine Shell Analysis for Seasonality -- 4. Chile Pepper Distribution and Use -- 5. Maize Analysis -- 6. Dietary Ecology, Stable Isotope, and Dental Microwear Texture Analysis -- 7. Phytolith Analysis -- 8. Sand and Salt Samples from Huaca Prieta -- 9. Starch Grains -- 10. Human Skeletal Remains from Various Excavations -- 11. Pigment Analysis -- 12. Pollen Analysis -- 13. Fish Otoliths from Huaca Prieta -- 14. Semele corrugata Microstructure and Oxygen Isotope Profiles as Indicators of Seasonality -- 15. Geophysical Prospection at Huaca Prieta and Paredones -- 16. Preliminary Use-Wear Study of Stone Tools -- 17. Estimating Haplogroup Affiliation through Ancient mtDNA Analysis from the Huaca Prieta Burials -- 18. Soil Chemistry Analysis -- 19. SEM-XRF Analysis of Green Stone -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index