Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society

Keatinge, Richard W.

ISBN 10: 0521275555 / ISBN 13: 9780521275552

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1988

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Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society , Edited by Richard W. Keatinge. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Book Condition: Good. Binding tight, pages overall clean, but with extensive highlighting and light pencil notations. Covers well worn with corner curling but still maintain integrity and color (see photos). Printing identification note: Cambridge paperbacks of this era often lack explicit number lines in visible locations. Without a full copyright page number line, printing cannot be definitively confirmed. Copyright page states reprinted, 1988, so assuming it is a second printing. A comprehensive scholarly survey of Peru?s cultural development from the earliest inhabitants through the Inca Empire, synthesizing archaeological research on Chavín, Moche, Nazca, Chimú, and other major Andean civilizations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Mass
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521275555
• ISBN 13: 9780521275552
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 692 grams

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Synopsis

Offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the cultural evolution of Peru from the appearance of the first inhabitants around 10,000 BC to the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. The book is divided chronologically into three main parts that examine in turn the highland and lowland zones in the Preceramic and Initial periods; the development of complex sociey at Chavín, Tiwanaku and Huari and in the Moche and Nazca cultures; and the culmination of this process. the pan-Andean empire of the Incas. A fourth, concluding section deals with the often neglected tropical forest region of Peru and its formative influence on the evolution of Andean culture.

Book Description

An authoritative survey of the cultural evolution of Peru from the appearance of the first inhabitants around 10,000 B.C. to the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. As such, it represents the first collective assessment of Peruvian archaeology to appear within a generation.