A5011157094- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Latin American history and culture
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Ion Channels and Receptors
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
University of California, Berkeley
2014-2024
Hearst (United States)
2019
California Academy of Sciences
2019
University of California System
2014
Université de Bordeaux
2013
University of Minnesota System
1985-1993
University of Minnesota
1984-1993
Twin Cities Orthopedics
1990
University of California, Los Angeles
1985
List of contributors Preface Christine Hastorf 1. Introduction Margaret W. Conkey and A. 2. Experimenting with style in archaeology: some historical theoretical issues 3. Style history art Whitney Davis 4. ethnicity the case for isochrestism James R. Sackett 5. as quality Ian Hodder 6. Investigating style: an exploratory analysis Plains burials William K. Macdonald 7. Sociopolitical implications stylistic variation American southwest Stephen Plog 8. iconography legitimation complex chiefdoms...
While archeologists have the capacity to track changing food use in archeological record, they not tended systems study of social and political change. To do so, an awareness must be gained meanings foods, which then can illuminate strategic a particular creation relationships dependence prestige. Archeological evidence from central Andes Peru indicates that role maize changed between A.D. 500 1500, shifting culinary item, simply prepared by boiling, more complex symbolic food, transformed...
Through detailed paleoethnobotanical data analysis, this paper discusses the agricultural production of prehistoric Sausa people Andean central highlands in context their autonomous regional political organization. This pattern then is compared with changes when were part Inka empire. The evidence implies that not only required local residents to work for state but also influenced individual household and access resources. suggest intervened at level, perhaps even requiring groups produce...
Recent archaeological work in Peru suggests a slower-paced movement of early humans along the Pacific coast.
Abstract Because the 14 C calibration curves IntCal and SHCal are based on data from temperate latitudes, it remains unclear which curve is more suitable for archaeological paleoenvironmental records tropical South America. A review of climate dynamics reveals a significant influx Northern Hemisphere air masses moisture over substantial part continent during American Summer Monsoon (SASM). Areas affected by SASM receive unknown amounts input both hemispheres, where an argument could be made...
We consider the daily practices of food preparation and consumption at Neolithic Anatolian site Çatalhöyük. present major activities suggested from archaeological evidence, including timing range possible ingredients eaten by residents this thousand-year settlement. Plant, animal, mineral resources, as well production practices, are viewed in context seasonal cycle. The food-related practiced Çatalhöyük within each seasons placed into five primary groups: procurement, processing, cooking,...
List of illustrations tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: politics, agriculture, and inequality Part I. Political Inequality Economics: 2. The onset political 3. economics intensive Andean agriculture II. Socio-Political Change in the Mantaro Region: 4. Sausa cultural setting region 5. Upper archaeological site settlement data 6. Regional socio-political structures: Wanka II hierarchical developments III. Agricultural Production 7. regional environment its crops 8. Defining modern...
Abstract Since the Formative times, maize is and has been a highly valued social commodity in Andes, particularly form of traditional beer called chicha. While chicha production well attested archaeology ethnohistory Andean states, emergence symbolism earlier societies not systematically addressed. In this study phytolith starch grain analyses are used to trace production, processing, consumption at sites on Taraco Peninsula Bolivia thus entrance into region. We examine role by addressing...
Chemical analyses of carbonized and absorbed organic residues from archaeological ceramic cooking vessels can provide a unique window into the culinary cultures ancient people, resource use, environmental effects by identifying ingredients used in meals. However, it remains uncertain whether recovered represent only final foodstuffs prepared or are accumulation various events within same vessel. To assess this, we cooked seven mixtures C3 C4 unglazed pots once per week for one year, then...
The historical landscape - pre-state societies in the Andes, class and state formation some theoretical considerations, Andes Inca society before Empire creation of society, prelude to Empire, constitution impact organization Imperial State, conquest, succession, changing composition ruling quiescence rebellion State border wars expansion, civil clash Empires colonial plunder economy war, resistance, immigration, crisis 1560s, society.
Certain kinds of food can be classed as “luxurious” because they are difficult to procure and reserved for an élite – but luxury foods more surely defined from their context use. Using examples Andean archaeology the author shows how different foodstuffs perform ceremonial roles in sectors society. Many ordinary people use them feed ancestors, while may put significance on a variety consumables, including human blood.
AbstractAbstractInka rule in the northern Calchaquí Valley NW Argentina employed a varied strategy that drew region's societies into empire 15th century A.C. Surface survey, site mapping, and excavation, combined with review of historical documents, show Inkas applied measures designed to ensure security, intensify production agropastoral mineral resources, introduce state ideology, administer activities, establish cultural relations compliant subjects. Because tailored their approaches...
AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART 1: The ethnography of head-taking ad power1. Heads in pre-state economies2. captured fetish, the mountain chest, offerings and sacrifice3. Drinking power dead 4. nested modern Andean hierarchiesPart 2: archaeology power5. consolidation political power6. historical changeConclusions