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Where the Land Meets the Sea - Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru (Hardcover)
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Where the Land Meets the Sea - Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru (Hardcover)
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Huaca Prieta-one the world's best-known, yet least understood,
early maritime mound sites-and other Preceramic sites on the north
coast of Peru bear witness to the beginnings of civilization in the
Americas. Across more than fourteen millennia of human occupation,
the coalescence of maritime, agricultural, and pastoral economies
in the north coast settlements set in motion long-term biological
and cultural transformations that led to increased social
complexity and food production, and later the emergence of
preindustrial states and urbanism. These developments make Huaca
Prieta a site of global importance in world archaeology. This
landmark volume presents the findings of a major archaeological
investigation carried out at Huaca Prieta, the nearby mound
Paredones, and several Preceramic domestic sites in the lower
Chicama Valley between 2006 and 2013 by an interdisciplinary team
of more than fifty international specialists. The book's
contributors report on and analyze the extensive material records
from the sites, including data on the architecture and spatial
patterns; floral, faunal, and lithic remains; textiles; basketry;
and more. Using this rich data, they build new models of the
social, economic, and ontological practices of these early peoples,
who appear to have favored cooperation and living in harmony with
the environment over the accumulation of power and the development
of ruling elites. This discovery adds a crucial new dimension to
our understanding of emergent social complexity, cosmology, and
religion in the Neolithic period.
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