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Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru - Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Adaptive Transitions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru - Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Adaptive Transitions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
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This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into
diet, subsistence regimes, and nutrition-and corresponding insights
into adaptation, suffering, and resilience-among indigenous
north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through
European colonial periods. The Spanish invasion and colonization of
Andean South America left millions dead, landscapes transformed,
and traditional ways of life annihilated. However, the nature and
magnitude of these changes were far from uniform. By the time the
Spanish arrived, over four millennia of complex societies had
emerged and fallen, and in the 16th century, the region was home to
the largest and most expansive indigenous empire in the western
hemisphere. Decades of Andean archaeological and ethnohistorical
research have explored the incredible sophistication of regional
agropastoral traditions, the importance of food and feasting as
mechanisms of control, and the significance of maritime economies
in the consolidation of complex polities. Bioarchaeology is
particularly useful in studying these processes. Beyond identifying
what resources were available and how they were prepared,
bioarchaeological methods provide unique opportunities and
humanized perspectives to reconstruct what individuals actually
ate, and whether their diets changed within their own lifespans.
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