Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Jun�n, Peru: Volume 2, The Wanka Region (Memoirs) - Softcover

9780915703814: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Jun�n, Peru: Volume 2, The Wanka Region (Memoirs)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915703815 ISBN 13: 9780915703814

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY, 2013

This monograph is based on six months of systematic regional survey in the Wanka Region of Peru's sierra central, carried out in two fieldseasons in 1975-76 by the Junin Archaeological Research Project (JASP) under the co-direction of Jeffrey R. Parsons (University of Michigan) and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos). It describes some 287 archaeological sites within a survey area of ca. 445 square kilometers lying between ca. 3200 and 4000 meters above sea level in elevation. Four major occupational periods are distinguished: Early Horizon, Early Intermediate Period/Middle Horizon, Late Intermediate Period, and Late Horizon; subsequent investigations in the same region by the Upper Mantaro Research Project (UMARP), directed by Timothy K. Earle (University of California at Los Angeles), refined the LIP chronology into early and late phases, and this new phasing has been applied to most LIP sites in the original JASP survey. The site descriptions include 24 sites in the bordering Jisse-Pomacancha Region, and several site plans from the original survey area, subsequently surveyed and mapped by UMARP archaeologists. The archaeological sites are considered within their environmental, ecological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic contexts.

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Review

This publication serves . . . as a fantastic educational tool. How do we survey? How do we think through a survey? What gets recorded, what gets left out? And what justifications exist for these decisions? Students and young scholars can find many answers here. --Hendrik Van Gijseghem, Universit� de Montr�al, in Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 70, 2014

[T]hese data are now likely to
feed back upon specific discussions, old and new.
These may include the interlinked dynamics of
indigenous politics and economics discussed by
processual archaeology throughout the 1990s and the
role of vessel form and ceramic decoration as keystone
chronological markers. Traditional discussions on the
history of early settlement in varied high altitude
ecological settings and the conditions, nature and
timing of the expansion of pastoralism, as well as
more recent concerns regarding the links between
herding and farming as economic practices vis-a-vis
ethnic and political differentiation in the central
highlands and beyond will also profit from this
volume. . . . the most compelling reason to recommend this volume to Andeanist libraries is the impeccable presentation of the colossal surface survey itself, well peppered with thoughtful reflections on the methods deployed and the results obtained. --Alexander Herrera W., Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures, German Archaeological Institute, in Antiquity, Vol. 88, Issue 341, September 2014