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Regional Archaeology In The Valle De La Plata Colombia Arqueologia Regional En El Valle De La Plata Colombia
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Book Synopsis Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia/Arqueología Regional en el Valle de la Plata, Colombia by : Robert D. Drennan
Download or read book Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia/Arqueología Regional en el Valle de la Plata, Colombia written by Robert D. Drennan and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Robert D. Drennan presents a preliminary report on his survey and excavation in the mountainous area of western Colombia in 1984. Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata contains a thorough description of the region’s landscape, including geology, soils, and modern flora, as well as details and illustrations of ceramic artifacts.
Book Synopsis Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia/Arqueología Regional en el Valle de la Plata, Colombia by : Robert D. Drennan
Download or read book Regional Archaeology in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia/Arqueología Regional en el Valle de la Plata, Colombia written by Robert D. Drennan and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comparative Archaeologies by : Ludomir R Lozny
Download or read book Comparative Archaeologies written by Ludomir R Lozny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data. In order to fulfill local, regional expectations, different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions. These goals might be entrenched in local politics, or social expectations behind cultural heritage research. This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective—to identify and explain regional differences in archaeological practice, as well as their existing similarities. This work covers not only the currently-dominant Anglo-American archaeological paradigm, but also Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, all of which have developed their own unique archaeological traditions. The contributions in this work cover these "alternative archaeologies," in the context of their own geographical, political, and socio-economic settings, as well as the context of the currently accepted mainstream approaches.
Book Synopsis Foundations of Social Inequality by : T. Douglas Price
Download or read book Foundations of Social Inequality written by T. Douglas Price and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological debates and major societal transitions. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states. Diachronic in view and archaeological in focus, this book will be of significant interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and students.
Book Synopsis Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology by : Cristóbal Gnecco
Download or read book Against Typological Tyranny in Archaeology written by Cristóbal Gnecco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that give meanings to symbols) but that their tyranny can be overcome if they are used from a critical, heuristic and non-prescriptive stance: critical because the complacent attitude towards their tyranny is replaced by a militant stance against it; heuristic because they are used as means to reach alternative and suggestive interpretations but not as ultimate and definite destinies; and non-prescriptive because instead of using them as threads to follow they are rather used as constitutive parts of more complex and connective fabrics. The papers included in the book are diverse in temporal and locational terms. They cover from so called Formative societies in lowland Venezuela to Inca-related ones in Bolivia; from the coastal shell middens of Brazil to the megalithic sculptors of SW Colombia. Yet, the papers are related. They have in common their shared rejection of established, naturalized typologies that constrain the way archaeologists see, forcing their interpretations into well known and predictable conclusions. Their imaginative interpretative proposals flee from the secure comfort of venerable typologies, many suspicious because of their association with colonial political narratives. Instead, the authors propose novel ways of dealing with archaeological data.
Book Synopsis Arqueología Regional en El Valle de la Plata, Columbia by : Robert D. Drennan
Download or read book Arqueología Regional en El Valle de la Plata, Columbia written by Robert D. Drennan and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Augusto Oyuela-Calcedo Publisher :Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press ISBN 13 :1950446131 Total Pages :194 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (54 download)
Book Synopsis Recent advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes by : Augusto Oyuela-Calcedo
Download or read book Recent advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes written by Augusto Oyuela-Calcedo and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northern Andes is a pivotal region for understanding many of the social, economic, political, and ideological changes that pre-Columbian cultures experienced. Topics inc. recent investigations on human colonisation of the region, origins of sedentism and food production, rise of chiefdoms, and importance of symbolism and iconography.
Book Synopsis Ancient Households of the Americas by : Nancy Gonlin
Download or read book Ancient Households of the Americas written by Nancy Gonlin and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and results of households as primary producers; and Section III investigates the role of, and interplay among, households in their greater political and socioeconomic communities. In the past few decades, household archaeology has made substantial contributions to our understanding and explanation of the past through the documentation of the household as a social unit-whether small or large, rural or urban, commoner or elite. These case studies from a broad swath of the Americas make Ancient Households of the Americas extremely valuable for continuing the comparative interdisciplinary study of households.
Author :Richard E. Blanton Publisher :Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press ISBN 13 :1938770986 Total Pages :312 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (387 download)
Book Synopsis Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity by : Richard E. Blanton
Download or read book Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity written by Richard E. Blanton and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory. Parsons is a central figure in the development of settlement pattern archaeology, in which the goal is the study of whole social systems at the scale of regions. In recent decades, regional archaeology has revolutionized how we understand the past, contributing new data and theoretical insights on topics such as early urbanism, social interactions among cities, towns and villages, and long-term population and agricultural change, among many other topics relevant to the study of early civilizations and the evolution of social complexity. Over the past 40 years, the application of these methods by Parsons and others has profoundly changed how we understand the evolution of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican civilization, and now similar methods are being applied in other world areas. The book's emphasis is on the contribution of settlement pattern archaeology to research in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, but its authors also point to the value of regional research in South America, South Asia, and China. Topics addressed include early urbanism, household and gender, agricultural and craft production, migration, ethnogenesis, the evolution of early chiefdoms, and the emergence of pre-modern world-systems.
Book Synopsis Centres of Plant Diversity: The Americas by : Stephen D. Davis
Download or read book Centres of Plant Diversity: The Americas written by Stephen D. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Helaine Silverman Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9780387752280 Total Pages :1228 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (522 download)
Book Synopsis Handbook of South American Archaeology by : Helaine Silverman
Download or read book Handbook of South American Archaeology written by Helaine Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.
Book Synopsis Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo-Colombian Area by : Scott D. Palumbo
Download or read book Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo-Colombian Area written by Scott D. Palumbo and published by Center for Comparative Arch. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters offer new understandings of how ranked societies emerged and developed in prehistoric southern Central America and northern South America (the "Isthmo-Colombian Area"). The emphasis is on integrating the results of studies of social units at a range of different scales from the household to the local commuity to the region and beyond. Complete text in English and Spanish.
Author :Robert D. Drennan Publisher :University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology ISBN 13 : Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Patrones de Asentamiento Regional en El Alto Magdalena by : Robert D. Drennan
Download or read book Patrones de Asentamiento Regional en El Alto Magdalena written by Robert D. Drennan and published by University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology. This book was released on 2018 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional survey in San Agustín and Isnos -- Monumental tombs and sculpture -- Formative period settlement patterns -- Regional classic period settlement patterns -- Recent period settlement patterns
Book Synopsis Profiles in Cultural Evolution by : A. Terry Rambo
Download or read book Profiles in Cultural Evolution written by A. Terry Rambo and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda Publisher :Center for Comparative Arch ISBN 13 :9781877812347 Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (123 download)
Book Synopsis Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory by : Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda
Download or read book Regional Archaeology in the Muisca Territory written by Carl Henrik Langebaek Rueda and published by Center for Comparative Arch. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional settlement analysis providing demographic and economic reconstructions of the chiefdoms encountered by the Spanish Conquistadores in the eastern Andean cordillera of Colombia and of the earlier societies from which they sprang. The full regional settlement dataset is provided electronically. Complete text in English and Spanish.
Book Synopsis The Quijos Chiefdoms by : Andrea M. Cuéllar
Download or read book The Quijos Chiefdoms written by Andrea M. Cuéllar and published by Center for Comparative Arch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological study of the emergence of the ethnohistorically documented Quijos chiefdoms in the eastern Ecuadorian Andes. This research evaluates links between the emergence of centralized leadership and the organization of agricultural production. The focus is on reconstructing the demographic history of 137 km2 based on a full coverage systematic survey, and on reconstructing patterns of food production and consumption based on analysis of pollen, phytoliths and plant macroremains from the excavation of 31 tests at locations representing different environmental settings and settlement types. The study proposes a sequence starting at about 600 B.C., with the first manifestations of a regional system of centralized authority appearing after about 500 A.D. Neither control of basic resources nor specialized craft production seem to have been important in the social and political dynamics of the emerging Quijos chiefdoms. Complete text in English and Spanish
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas by : Bruce G. Trigger
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
