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Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World
examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems
in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands
of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the central Andes. Civilization
in each region was characterized by complex political and religious
institutions, highly skilled craft production, and the
long-distance movement of finished goods. Scholars have long
focused on the differences in economic organization between these
civilizations. Societies in the Mexican highlands are recognized as
having a highly commercial economy centered around one of the
world's most complex market systems; those of the Maya region are
characterized as having reciprocal exchange networks and periodic
marketplaces that supplemented the dominant role of the palace; and
those of the central Andes are recognized as having multiple forms
of resource distribution, including household-to-household
reciprocity, barter, environmental complementarity, and limited
market exchange. Essays in this volume examine various dimensions
of these ancient economies, including the presence of marketplaces,
the operation of merchants (and other individuals) who exchanged
and moved goods across space, the role of artisans who produced
goods as part of their livelihood, and the trade and distribution
networks through which goods were bought, sold, and exchanged.
A new perspective on early Andean civilization focused on emergent
social complexity during the first and second millennia B.C. This
Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents
investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early
developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments.
The contributors provide new perspectives on early Andean
civilization by exploring patterns of interaction, authority, and
socioeconomic organization during the first and second millennia
B.C. in the Central Andes of Peru. Large-scale subjects such as
architecture, organization, technology, and ideology are examined,
in addition to fine-grained topics including animal bones, pottery
style and technology, site orientation, and religious iconography.
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region.
Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been
dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean
South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the
Spaniards. While the Inka have been traditionally viewed through
the textual sources of early colonial histories, this volume draws
on recent archaeological research to challenge theories on the
chronology and development of the Inka Empire and how this culture
spread across such a vast area. The volume demonstrates the great
regional diversity of the Inka realm, with strategies of expansion
that were shaped to meet a variety of local situations beyond the
capital in Cusco. Using a range of theoretical and methodological
approaches, scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and
humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and
history.
In this collection, prominent archaeologists explore the
sophisticated political and logistical organizations that were
required to plan and complete these architectural marvels. They
discuss the long-term political, social, and military impacts these
projects had on their respective civilizations, and illuminate the
significance of monumentality among early complex societies in the
Americas. Early New World Monumentality is ultimately a study of
labor and its mobilization, as well as the long-term spiritual awe
and political organization that motivated and were enhanced by such
undertakings. Mounds and other impressive monuments left behind by
earlier civilizations continue to reveal their secrets, offering
profound insights into the development of complex societies
throughout the New World.
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