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, agricu...

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