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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 May 2011
      14 February 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511793790
      9781107005273
      9781107448667
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793790
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 215 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.98kg, 380 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Archaeology of The Americas, Area Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, Archaeology
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    Archeologists have always considered the beginnings of Andean civilization from c.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 the world.

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    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

    Reviews

    '… 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 Source: 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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