Andean Archaeology III

1. The South

   1. When and Where Did the Nasca Proliferous Style Emerge?

      • Joerg Haeberli

      Pages 401-434

   2. Violence and Rural Lifeways at Two Peripheral Wari Sites in the Majes Valley of Southern Peru

      • Tiffiny A. Tung, Bruce Owen

      Pages 435-467

   3. Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire

      • Brian S. Bauer

      Pages 468-493

2. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XI

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   2. Rethinking the Central Andean Co-Tradition

      • William H. Isbell, Helaine Silverman

      Pages 497-518

3. Back Matter

   Pages 519-523

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Andean Archaeology III represents a continuation in our effort to highlight the ?nest of current archaeological scholarship conducted in the Central Andean c- ture area. Each paper contributes in a signi?cant way to understanding prehistoric processes in the Central Andean culture tradition, adding importantly to the rich base provided by Andean Archaeology I and II. As in those former volumes we do not seek a balanced presentation of the entirety of the Andean past, but instead showcase what is new, what is innovative, and what is controversial in thinking about and investigating the great sweep of Andean cultural development. We wholeheartedly agree with Pauketat (2001:xiii) that it is “more satisfying to compare how cultural phenomena happened,” than for researchers to hasten to answer “why questions” that tend more to “reify their initial assumptions” than to inform us about prehistoric people and their embodied, cultural practices. We supporttherevitalizedstudyofsocioculturalevolution,especiallythatchampioned by Bruce Trigger (e.g., 1998, 2003), which has bene?ted by several decades of valuable critique. Ontheotherhand,explanationsofthepastnotbasedoncomparisonsofhistorical processes carefully argued from well-studied archaeological records sacri?ce the rigor that was such an important part of the ?rst processual archaeology advocated byLewisBinford(1962,1964,1972;Sabloff1998;seealsoYoffee2005interalia). In some recent and current Andean archaeology we ?nd explanatory conclusions, especiallyprocessualevolutionarytransformations,andclimatechange-basedrise or collapse accounts, to have been reached too hastily, constituting more of a reading of material remains in terms of theoretical expectations than a rigorous interrogation of the archaeological record.

• Andean archaeology
• Archaic period in North America
• Incan Empire
• Late Archaic Caral
• Peru
• Prehistoric
• cultural difference
• inca
• inca empire
• sociopolitical organization

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

  William H. Isbell

• Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

  Helaine Silverman

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