Handbook of South American Archaeology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Continental Introduction

      • Helaine Silverman

      Pages 3-26

3. Early Occupations Of South America

   1. Profiles in Pleistocene History

      • Tom D. Dillehay

      Pages 29-43

   2. Chinchorro Culture: Pioneers of the Coast of the Atacama Desert

      • Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, Vicki Cassman, Calogero M. Santoro

      Pages 45-58

   3. Early Occupations in the Southern Cone

      • Luis Alberto Borrero

      Pages 59-77

   4. The Process of Sedentism in Northwestern South America

      • J. Scott Raymond

      Pages 79-90

4. Environment And Subsistence

   1. Central Andean Environments

      • Daniel H. Sandweiss, James B. Richardson III

      Pages 93-104

   2. Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes

      • Deborah M. Pearsall

      Pages 105-120

   3. Animal Domestication in South America

      • Peter W. Stahl

      Pages 121-130

   4. High Elevation Foraging Societies

      • Mark S. Aldenderfer

      Pages 131-143

   5. Early Fishing Societies in Western South America

      • Daniel H. Sandweiss

      Pages 145-156

   6. Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape

      • Clark L. Erickson

      Pages 157-183

   7. The Archaeology of Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia

      • José R. Oliver

      Pages 185-216

   8. Agricultural Earthworks on the French Guiana Coast

      • Stéphen Rostain

      Pages 217-233

   9. The Pampas and Campos of South America

      • Gustavo Politis

      Pages 235-260

5. Lowland Moundbuilders

   1. Pre-Columbian Mound Complexes in the Upano River Valley, Lowland Ecuador

      • Ernesto Salazar

      Pages 263-278

   2. The Archaeology of the Guianas: An Overview

      • Stéphen Rostain

      Pages 279-302

   3. Barrancoid and Arauquinoid Mound Builders in Coastal Suriname

      • Aad H. Versteeg

      Pages 303-318

   4. Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil

      • Maria Dulce Gaspar, Paulo DeBlasis, Suzanne K. Fish, Paul R. Fish

      Pages 319-335

6. Continental Variations In Non-State Complexity

   1. The Nonagricultural Chiefdoms of Marajó Island

      • Denise Pahl Schaan

      Pages 339-357

Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.

• Chavín de Huántar
• Chinchorro
• archaeological patrimony
• archaeology of agriculture
• chimú empire
• inca empire
• mochicas
• pleistocene history
• pre-hispanic chiefdoms
• pre-inca
• prehistoric funeral practice
• quipu

Aus den Rezensionen: “Mit dem vorliegenden Handbuch (HSAA) bekommt der Leser nicht nur ein besonders umfangreiches und schweres Werk in die Hand. Auch inhaltlich hat das Buch eine Menge zu bieten. ... Eine umfangreiche Bibliografie am Ende jedes Beitrages zeigt dem Leser, wo er weitere und ausführliche Informationen finden kann. ... Ziel ist eine fundierte archäologische Information für ausgewählte Gesellschaften und Regionen. ... Die einzelnen Beiträge selbst sind sehr informativ, bieten einen aktuellen Forschungsstand und weisen zahlreiche Abbildungen, Karten und Fotos ...“ (in: Amerindian Research, 2009, Vol. 474, Issue 14, S. 258 f.)

• Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

  Helaine Silverman

• Department of Anthropology, State University of New York Binghamton, Binghamton, USA

  William H. Isbell

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