Handbook of South American Archaeology (Hardcover)

Continental Introduction.- Early Occupations Of South America.- Profiles in Pleistocene History.- Chinchorro Culture: Pioneers of the Coast of the Atacama Desert.- Early Occupations in the Southern Cone.- The Process of Sedentism in Northwestern South America.- Environment And Subsistence.- Central Andean Environments.- Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes.- Animal Domestication in South America.- High Elevation Foraging Societies.- Early Fishing Societies in Western South America.- Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape.- The Archaeology of Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia.- Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast.- The Pampas and Campos of South America.- Lowland Moundbuilders.- Pre-Columbian Mound Complexes in the Upano River Valley, Lowland Ecuador.- The Archaeology of the Guianas: An Overview.- Barrancoid and Arauquinoid Mound Builders in Coastal Suriname.- Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil.- Continental Variations In Non-State Complexity.- The Nonagricultural Chiefdoms of Marajo Island.- Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-term History, and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain.- Chiefdoms of Southwestern Colombia.- Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Northern Colombia and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes.- The Prehistory of Venezuela - Not Necessarily an Intermediate Area.- The Ecuadorian Formative.- Early Regional Polities of Coastal Ecuador.- Late Pre-Hispanic Polities of Coastal Ecuador.- Late Pre-Hispanic Chiefdoms of Highland Ecuador.- The Formative Period in the Titicaca Basin.- Paracas and Nasca: Regional Cultures on the South Coast of Peru.- Social Landscapes in Pre-Inca Northwestern Argentina.- Demographic And Cultural Expansions.- Early Cultural Complexity on the Coast of Peru.- Andean Urbanism.- The Tupi Expansion.- Life on the Move: Bioarchaeological Contributions to the Study of Migration and Diaspora Communities in the Andes.- Chavin de Huantar and Its Sphere of Influence.- States And Empires Of The Central Andes.- The Mochicas.- Wari and Tiwanaku: International Identities in the Central Andean Middle Horizon.- Between Horizons: Diverse Configurations of Society and Power in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Andes.- The Chimu Empire.- The Inca Empire.- The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord Record Keeping in the Andes.- Experiencing Inca Domination in Northwestern Argentina and the Southern Andes.- Interactions.- Inter-zonal Relationships in Ecuador.- Cultural Boundaries and Crossings: Ecuador and Peru.- Chachapoyas: Cultural Development at an Andean Cloud Forest Crossroads.- The Llanos de Mojos.- Amazonian Mosaics: Identity, Interaction, and Integration in the Tropical Forest.- The Archaeology of Northern Chile.- Interaction and Social Fields in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile.- Death Practices And Beliefs.- Prehistoric Funeral Practices in the Brazilian Amazon: The Maraca Urns.- Ancestor Images in the Andes.- Trophy Head-Taking and Human Sacrifice in Andean South America.- Ethics And Practice In South American Archaeology.- Archaeology, Globalization and the Nation: Appropriating the Past in Ecuador.- Cultural Heritage Management in Peru: Current and Future Challenges.- The Bennett Monolith: Archaeological Patrimony and Cultural Restitution in Bolivia.- Modernity and Politics in Colombian Archaeology.- From the Erasure to the Rewriting of Indigenous Pasts: The Troubled Life of Archaeology in Uruguay.- Public Archaeology and Management of the Brazilian Archaeological-Cultural Heritage.- Conclusion.- Conclusion.