William H Isbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 77625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Isbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Isbell |
| SIGNATURE | ISBELL W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites
Beyond the Nasca Lines
Nazca is famous for the “lines,” or geoglyphs, that attract thousands of tourists to Peru's south coast each year. But Nazca also offers an intriguing archaeological case study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating examples of cultural adaptation to an extreme environment, the Atacama Desert of the central Andes. The pre-Hispanic people of the Nazca Valley, known generically as the Nazca culture, succeeded in one of the driest places in …
Wari (Huari) culture
Wari was the first empire to emerge among the Central Andean civilizations of South America, during the Middle Horizon (MH, 650–1000 ce ). In comparative archaeological terms Wari belongs to the early Bronze Age, and like all pre‐Hispanic Andean cultures it is completely prehistoric, with no writing to assist interpretations. Wari began imperialistic expansion through interaction with Peru's South Coast Nasca culture, but later adopted a new reli…
Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes
This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely …
Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes
Andean Archaeology II
Mummies and Mortuary Monuments
Nature of an Andean City
Andean Archaeology I
Conchopata
El presente capítulo reexamina la producción de cerámica y otras actividades, posiblemente especializadas, en Conchopata,un centro urbano recientemente excavado del Horizonte Medio en el valle de Ayacucho. Empleando la exhaustiva base de datos SIG recopilada por el Proyecto Arqueológico Conchopata examinamos mapas normalizados de coropletas y coeficientes de autocorrelación espacial local para entender las distribuciones de cuatro categorías de i…
La arqueología wari y la dispersión del quechua
La asociación de Wari con el quechua o el protoquechua no se puede demostrar con una tradición ininterrumpida de cultura material desde los estilos de cerámica del Horizonte Medio a las comunidades quechuahablantes etnohistóricamente conocidas, pero su dispersión desde su área de origen en el norte de Ayacucho hasta las colonias arqueológicamente más obvias que se extienden lo largo de los Andes desde el Cuzco al sur de Ayacucho, así como hacia I…
The Handbook of South American Archaeology
Andean Archaeology III
Missing Links, Imaginary Links
Palaces and Power in the Americas
Introduction - Jessica Joyce Christie Part 1. Identification of Palaces 1. Looking for Moche Palaces in the Elite Residences of the Huacas of Moche Site - Claude Chapdelaine 2. Landscape of Power: A Network of Palaces in Middle Horizon Peru - William H. Isbell 3. Lords of the Great House: Pueblo Bonito as a Palace - Stephen H. Lekson Part 2. Palaces as Active Stage Sets of Political Ideology 4. Sacred and Profane Mountains of the Pasion: Contrast…
Human and animal diet at Conchopata, Peru
Cultural Evolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Dr. WILLIAM H. ISBELL is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A New World archaeologist and Latin American prehistorian specialized in the development of complex societies and the nature of social inequality, he is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the Andean Middle Horizon. Professor Isbell has excavated extensively in the heartlands of both of the famous Middle Horizon capitals, Huari and T…
Mortuary Preferences
Mortuary practices reveal a great deal about the social organization of prehistoric cultures and their landscape of places. However, tombs are favored targets for looters, making it difficult to determine original burial practices. Very little was known about Wari burial during the Middle Horizon (A.D. 500-1000), even though Wari was an imperial, early Bronze Age culture with a spectacular urban capital in highland Peru. Excavations at the second…
A New Perspective on Conchopata and the Andean Middle Horizon
From Art to Material Culture
Issues of Cultural Production and Reproduction
Andean Archaeology II
Andean Archaeology I
Theorizing Variations in Andean Sociopolitical Organization
Writing the Andes with a Capital ‘A’
Human and animal diet at Conchopata, Peru
Was Huari a State
Pristine state government evolved among the indigenous cultures of the central Andes, but archaeologists have not demonstrated when and where. Conceptualization of the state as an integrative mechanism for gathering and processing information and for deliberating decisions provides explicit archaeological criteria for statehood. Examination of the archaeological record reveals that Middle Horizon Huari fulfills almost all of these criteria for st…
Mortuary Preferences
Mortuary practices reveal a great deal about the social organization of prehistoric cultures and their landscape of places. However, tombs are favored targets for looters, making it difficult to determine original burial practices. Very little was known about Wari burial during the Middle Horizon (A.D. 500-1000), even though Wari was an imperial, early Bronze Age culture with a spectacular urban capital in highland Peru. Excavations at the second…
Ceramic Ecology of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru
The paper examines some of the interrelationships of environment and ceramic specialization in the area around the village of Quinua, Department of Ayacucho,Peru. The study reveals that agricultural land dependent on rainfall provides a significant limiting factor in the development of full-time ceramic specialization. Furthermore, the complex series of Quinua ceramic styles depends upon a diverse set of ceramic resources which are mined nearby i…
Beyond the Nasca Lines
Nazca is famous for the “lines,” or geoglyphs, that attract thousands of tourists to Peru's south coast each year. But Nazca also offers an intriguing archaeological case study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating examples of cultural adaptation to an extreme environment, the Atacama Desert of the central Andes. The pre-Hispanic people of the Nazca Valley, known generically as the Nazca culture, succeeded in one of the driest places in …
Repensando el Horizonte Medio
El conocimiento del pasado se crea socialmente, en contextos históricos que influyen en la forma en que se entiende e interpreta la información arqueológica. En consecuencia, a medida que los tiempos cambian, los arqueólogos deben estar preparados para modificar su forma de pensar acerca de las culturas prehispánicas. Tanto el periodo cultural denominado Horizonte Medio como el sitio arqueólogico de Conchopata, en el valle de Ayacucho, Perú, pare…
Traces behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Traces behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador. Warren R. DeBoer. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. 234 pp
Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites
La arqueología wari y la dispersión del quechua
La asociación de Wari con el quechua o el protoquechua no se puede demostrar con una tradición ininterrumpida de cultura material desde los estilos de cerámica del Horizonte Medio a las comunidades quechuahablantes etnohistóricamente conocidas, pero su dispersión desde su área de origen en el norte de Ayacucho hasta las colonias arqueológicamente más obvias que se extienden lo largo de los Andes desde el Cuzco al sur de Ayacucho, así como hacia I…
Cultural Evolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Dr. WILLIAM H. ISBELL is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A New World archaeologist and Latin American prehistorian specialized in the development of complex societies and the nature of social inequality, he is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the Andean Middle Horizon. Professor Isbell has excavated extensively in the heartlands of both of the famous Middle Horizon capitals, Huari and T…
Conchopata, Ideological Innovator in Middle Horizon Ia
Conchopata
El presente capítulo reexamina la producción de cerámica y otras actividades, posiblemente especializadas, en Conchopata,un centro urbano recientemente excavado del Horizonte Medio en el valle de Ayacucho. Empleando la exhaustiva base de datos SIG recopilada por el Proyecto Arqueológico Conchopata examinamos mapas normalizados de coropletas y coeficientes de autocorrelación espacial local para entender las distribuciones de cuatro categorías de i…
Ceramic Ecology of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru
The paper examines some of the interrelationships of environment and ceramic specialization in the area around the village of Quinua, Department of Ayacucho,Peru. The study reveals that agricultural land dependent on rainfall provides a significant limiting factor in the development of full-time ceramic specialization. Furthermore, the complex series of Quinua ceramic styles depends upon a diverse set of ceramic resources which are mined nearby i…
Lubaantun
Was Huari a State
Pristine state government evolved among the indigenous cultures of the central Andes, but archaeologists have not demonstrated when and where. Conceptualization of the state as an integrative mechanism for gathering and processing information and for deliberating decisions provides explicit archaeological criteria for statehood. Examination of the archaeological record reveals that Middle Horizon Huari fulfills almost all of these criteria for st…
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Archeology
Conchopata, Ideological Innovator in Middle Horizon Ia
Regional Perspectives on the Olmec
Regional Perspectives on the Olmec. Robert J. Sharer and David C. Grove, (editors). School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxvi + 386 pp., illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $49.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–89089–260–1
Regional Perspectives on the Olmec
Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community
Mummies and Mortuary Monuments
Since prehistoric times, Andean societies have been organized around the ayllu, a grouping of real or ceremonial kinspeople who share labor, resources, and ritual obligations. Many Andean scholars believe that the ayllu is as ancient as Andean culture itself, possibly dating back as far as 6000 B.C., and that it arose to alleviate the hardships of farming in the mountainous Andean environment. In this boldly revisionist book, however, William Isb…
Reconstructing Huari
Traces behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Traces behind the Esmeraldas Shore: Prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador. Warren R. DeBoer. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. 234 pp
Mummies and Mortuary Monuments
Repensando el Horizonte Medio
El conocimiento del pasado se crea socialmente, en contextos históricos que influyen en la forma en que se entiende e interpreta la información arqueológica. En consecuencia, a medida que los tiempos cambian, los arqueólogos deben estar preparados para modificar su forma de pensar acerca de las culturas prehispánicas. Tanto el periodo cultural denominado Horizonte Medio como el sitio arqueólogico de Conchopata, en el valle de Ayacucho, Perú, pare…
Reflexiones finales
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A New Perspective on Conchopata and the Andean Middle Horizon
From Art to Material Culture
Issues of Cultural Production and Reproduction
Andean Archaeology II
Andean Archaeology I
Theorizing Variations in Andean Sociopolitical Organization
Writing the Andes with a Capital ‘A’
Cultural Evolution in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Dr. WILLIAM H. ISBELL is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A New World archaeologist and Latin American prehistorian specialized in the development of complex societies and the nature of social inequality, he is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the Andean Middle Horizon. Professor Isbell has excavated extensively in the heartlands of both of the famous Middle Horizon capitals, Huari and T…
Mortuary Preferences
Mortuary practices reveal a great deal about the social organization of prehistoric cultures and their landscape of places. However, tombs are favored targets for looters, making it difficult to determine original burial practices. Very little was known about Wari burial during the Middle Horizon (A.D. 500-1000), even though Wari was an imperial, early Bronze Age culture with a spectacular urban capital in highland Peru. Excavations at the second…
Andean Archaeology III
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