Life And Death At Paloma: Practices In Peruvian Village - Softcover

Quilter, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587293994 ISBN 13: 9781587293993

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 2005

Synopsis

Gold, pomp, and circumstances surrounded the mummies of Inca emperors, but the elaborate funerary rites at the end of prehistory were only part of a tradition that began thousands of years earlier. Life and Death at Paloma, the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village, analyzes the life of its people during a revolutionary time in prehistory: the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life...

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About the Author

Jeffrey Quilter is the author of Cobble Circles and Standing Stones (Iowa 2004), coeditor of Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia and Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu, and director of Pre-Columbian Studies and curator of the Pre-Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C.

Review

." . . fills in a missing portion of the prehistoric record, and is a useful addition to the ceramic period sequence of C. B. Donnan and C. J. Mackey and the mummy studies of M. J. Allison and E. Gerszten. The data are of particular importance for Peruvian archaeologists."--Choice

"High-quality burial data sets occur rarely. Quilter discusses one such skeletal series representing occupation from 5700 to 2800 b.c. of the...

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Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1587293994
• ISBN 13: 9781587293993
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 204