We now have online access to an eBook that may be useful for students in Dr. Blake’s ANTH 232 class (Ancient Latin America) who are in the midst of the Andean Archaeology section of the course. “Andean Archaeology III” is the third volume in the Andean Archaeology series by William Isbell and Helaine Silverman.
From the dustjacket:
“The book focuses on the marked cultural differences between the northern and southern regions of the Central Andes, and considers the conditions under which these differences evolved, grew pronounced, and diminished.”
Since the book is online as part of SpringerLink, you can all access it without coming to the library (make sure you have set up the VPN.) To read the book, click here or on the book title above.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction:
Regional Patterns. Part II: The North
America’s First City? The Case of Late Archaic Caral. Religious Warfare at Chankillo. The Vicus-Mochica Relationship. Competitive Feasting, Religious Pluralism and Decentralized Power in the Late Moche Period. Northern Exposures: Recuay-Cajamarca Boundaries and Interaction. Chimu Craft Specialization and Political Economy: A View from the Provinces. Part III: The South
Early Village Society in the Formative Period in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin. The Emergence of Complex Society in the Titicaca Basin: The View from the North. Redefining Plant Use at the Formative Site of Chiripa in the Southern Titicaca Basin. Ritual and Society in Early Intermediate Period Ayacucho: A View from the Site of Nawinpukyo. Missing Links, Imaginary Links: Staff God Imagery in the South Andean Past. Water, Blood and Semen: Signs of Life and Fertility in Nasca Art. Burial Patterns and Sociopolitical Organization in Nasca 5 Society. When and Where Did the Nasca Proliferous Style Emerge? Violence and Rural Lifeways at Two Peripheral Wari Sites in the Majes Valley of Southern Peru. Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire. Part IV: Conclusion
Rethinking the Central Andean Co-Tradition.
Note: We also have all three print volumes in the Andean Archaeology series in Koerner at call number F2229.A555 2002.