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From Foraging to Farming in the Andes
New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization

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Peter Kaulicke, Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen, Greg Maggard, Patricia J. Netherly, John Verano, Dolores Piperno
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  • Date Published: October 2014
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107448667

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  • Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from ca. 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 world.

    • Detailed archeological and paleoecological data
    • Visual graphics of archeological sites and artifacts
    • Succinct summaries of a wide variety of interdisciplinary data
    • New data and ideas about the beginnings of social complexity and Andean civilization
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    Awards

    • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

    Reviews & endorsements

    "The editor, Dillehay, and his colleagues and students … have produced a seminal volume that will be referenced and discussed for decades … Essential for any anthropologist, archaeologist, or botanist, interested in the origins of New World agriculture or domestic plants, as well as for model-building in this issue worldwide."
    David Browman, Choice

    "[This book] brings us altogether closer to rooting our particular devil out of these emerging details. It will be required reading for those interested in the foundations of Andean civilisation, or indeed the origins of food production worldwide."
    David Beresford-Jones, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

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    Product details

    • Date Published: October 2014
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107448667
    • length: 380 pages
    • dimensions: 246 x 168 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.66kg
    • contains: 96 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. 15 maps 9 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Foreword Peter Kaulicke
    1. Introduction Tom D. Dillehay
    2. Research history, methods, and site types Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen and Greg Maggard
    3. Pleistocene and Holocene environments Patricia J. Netherly
    4. El Palto phase Greg Maggard and Tom D. Dillehay
    5. Las Pircas phase Jack Rossen
    6. Tierra Blanca phase Kary Stackelbeck and Tom D. Dillehay
    7. Preceramic mounds and hillside villages Tom D. Dillehay, Patricia J. Netherly and Jack Rossen
    8. Human remains John Verano and Jack Rossen
    9. Preceramic plant use Jack Rossen
    10. Faunal remains Kary Stackelbeck
    11. Material cultures Tom D. Dillehay, Greg Maggard, Jack Rossen and Kary Stackelbeck
    12. Forager and farming land use systems Tom D. Dillehay
    13. From foraging to farming and community development Tom D. Dillehay, Jack Rossen and Kary Stackelbeck
    14. Northern Peruvian early and middle preceramic agriculture in Central and South American context Dolores Piperno
    15. Conclusions Tom D. Dillehay
    Appendix 1. Radiocarbon dates from the study area
    Appendix 2. Dry forests and biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes of northwestern Peru Patricia J. Netherly
    Appendix 3. Stable carbon isotopes Patricia J. Netherly
    Appendix 4. Faunal remains from all phases Kary Stackelbeck.

  • Editor

    Tom D. Dillehay, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
    Tom D. Dillehay is Rebecca Web Wilson University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He has conducted numerous archaeological and anthropological projects in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and other South American countries and the United States. He is the author of Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives, as well as numerous other books and articles.

    Contributors

    Peter Kaulicke, Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen, Greg Maggard, Patricia J. Netherly, John Verano, Dolores Piperno

    Awards

    • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

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