Author: Carlos Ponce SanginésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Arqueología Boliviana
Author: Carlos Ponce SanginésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Andean Archaeology I
Author: William H. IsbellPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461506395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage knowledge, or are they the result of real constraints on and variations in the actual processes? Can such questions even be answered? We believe so, but not easily. By comparing evolutionary sequences from different world civilizations scholars can judge degrees of similarity and difference and then attempt explanation. Of course, we must be careful to assess the influence that societies of the ancient world had on one another (the issue of pristine versus non-pristine cultural devel opment: see discussion in Fried 1967; Price 1978). The Central Andes were the locus of the only societies to achieve pristine civilization in the southern hemi sphere and only in the Central Andes did non-literate (non-written language) civ ilization develop. It seems clear that Central Andean civilization was independent on any graph of archaic culture change. Scholars have often expressed appreciation of the research opportunities offered by the Central Andes as a testing ground for the study of cultural evolu tion (see, e. g. , Carneiro 1970; Ford and Willey 1949: 5; Kosok 1965: 1-14; Lanning 1967: 2-5).
Arqueología boliviana
Author: Ancient Titicaca
Author: Charles StanishPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520232453
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This landmark work brings the author's intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology in this region to bear on key theoretical issues in evolutionary anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
Lukurmata
Author: Marc BermannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863848
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Household archaeology, together with community and regional settlement information, forms the basis for a unique local perspective of Andean prehistory in this study of the evolution of the site of Lukurmata, a pre-Columbian community in highland Bolivia. First established nearly two thousand years ago, Lukurmata grew to be a major ceremonial center in the Tiwanaku state, a polity that dominated the south-central Andes from a.d. 400 to 1200. After the Tiwanaku state collapsed, Lukurmata rapidly declined, becoming once again a small village. In his analysis of a 1300-year-long sequence of house remains at Lukurmata, Marc Bermann traces patterns and changes in the organization of domestic life, household ritual, ties to other communities, and mortuary activities, as well as household adaptations to overarching political and economic trends. Prehistorians have long studied the processes of Andean state formation, expansion, and decline at the regional level, notes Bermann. But only now are we beginning to understand how these changes affected the lives of the residents at individual settlements. Presenting a "view from below" of Andean prehistory based on a remarkably extensive data set, Lukurmata is a rare case study of how prehispanic polities can be understood in new ways if prehistorians integrate the different lines of evidence available to them. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
El Instituto Nacional de Arquelogía de Bolivia
Author: Carlos Ponce SanginésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : es
Pages : 42
Book Description
Monograph series
Author: Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Notas de arqueología boliviana
Author: Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes
Author: John Wayne JanusekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135940886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins, development, and collapse of this ancient state through the lenses of social identities--gender, ethnicity, occupation, for example--and power relations. He combines recent developments in social theory with the archaeological record to create a fascinating and theoretically informed exploration of the history of this important civilization.
Arqueologia boliviana (Primera Mesa Redonda)
Author: Carlos Ponce SanginésPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arqueologia
Languages : es
Pages : 516
Book Description