Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes

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Introduction

Chapter 1. A Historical Perspective on the Studies of Andean Maritime Communities
Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss

Part I. Early Maritime Adaptations (BP 13000 to 5500)

Chapter 2. Maritime Communities in the Atacama Desert: Masters of the Sub Tropical Pacific Coast of South America
Calogero Santoro, Victoria Castro, Christopher Carter and Daniela Valenzuela

Chapter 3. Economic Organization and Social Dynamics of Middle-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities in the Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Northern Chile)
Diego Salazar, Carola Flores, Cesar Borie, Laura Olguin, Sandra Rebolledo, Manuel Escobar and Ariadna Cifuentes

Chapter 4. The Use and Construction History of Huaca Prieta, North Coast of Peru
Tom D. Dillehay

Part II. Maritime Communities Between 5,500 and 2,500 BP

Chapter 5. Changing Complexity in the Norte Chico, 3000–1800 BCE
Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas

Chapter 6. Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization: Preliminary Insights from Early Horizon Samanco, Nepeña, North-Central Peru
Matthew Helmer

Chapter 7. The Supply and Consumption of Marine Resources at the Inland Center of Caylan, Coastal Ancash
David Chicoine, Carol Rojas, Victor Vasquez and Teresa Rosales

Chapter 8. The Fisherman’s Garden: Horticultural Practices in a Second Millennium Maritime Community of the North Coast of Peru
Gabriel Prieto

Chapter 9. The Ethnogenesis of Pescador Identity: The Implications of Biodistance Analyses of Initial Period (1500 – 1200 BC) Human Remains from Gramalote Peru, for our Understanding of the Social and Economic Dyamics of Ancient Andean Maritime Communities
Richard C. Sutter and Gabriel Prieto

Part III. Maritime Communities Between 2,500 and 600 BP

Chapter 10. Fisherman, Farmer, Rich Man, Poor Man, Weaver, Parcialidad Chief? Household Archaeology at Cerro la Virgen, a Chimu Town within the Hinterland of Chan Chan
Brian R. Billman, Dana Bardolph, Jean Hudson and Jesús Briceño Rosario

Chapter 11. Subsistence economies in margin areas with natural constraints: interactions between social dynamics, natural resource management and paleoenvironment in the Sechura Desert, Peru
Nicolas Goepfert, Philippe Bearez, Aurelien Christol and Belkys Gutierrez

Chapter 12. Late Prehistoric Maritime Communities in Coastal Ecuador
Karen E. Stothert, Maria Masucci and Benjamin Carter

Part IV. Maritime Communities between 600 and 300 BP

Chapter 13. Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: A Comparison of Late Intermediate and 20th Century Fishing
Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery, Jeffrey Sommer and Robert G. Reynolds

Chapter 14. El Contrato del Mar: Colonial Life and Maritime Subsistence at Carrizales, Zaña Valley, Peru
Parker Vanvalkenburgh, Sarah Kennedy, Carol Rojas and Gabriel Hassler

Chapter 15. Fish[i]stories: Seafolk of the Northern Peruvian Coast
Susan Ramirez

Notes

List of Contributors

Index