T D Dillehay
Biographic Data
| ID | 42725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T D Dillehay |
| GIVEN NAMES | T D |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillehay |
| SIGNATURE | DILLEHAY T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8710-2805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 111 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 566 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 110 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Middle Holocene Salt Production on the North Coast of Peru
Salt is a commodity valued for nutrition; seasoning, drying, and storing food; tanning hides; and its social and economic role in exchange systems. This study reports on salt caches and manufactured disks from Middle Holocene (∼5500–4000 cal BP) archaeological sites on the north coast of Peru. During this period, salt extraction occurred at a time of rising sea levels and wetland development in the littoral of the Chicama Valley, where maritime f…
Record of two Late-Holocene tsunamis along the north Peruvian coast and their relation to archaeological sites of the Chicama River valley
South America’s Pacific margin is subject to recurring subduction-zone earthquakes that have generated devastating historical tsunamis, as well as earlier events impacting indigenous populations that have lived along the region’s rich upwelling coastlines throughout the Holocene. Despite recurring events, the geologic record of paleo-tsunamis is relatively sparse. Here we report evidence for two paleo-tsunamis striking the Chicama River coastline…
The Coastal Archaeology of South America: Northwest Pacific and Caribbean Rim to Tierra del Fuego
Indigenous coastal communities in the Pacific, Caribbean, Atlantic, and Patagonian regions of South America sustainably fished, harvested shellfish and other marine species, and hunted sea lions for millennia. Considerable variation exists in the types of coastal archaeological sites found in these regions, ranging from small to large shell middens and shell rings to sedentary maritime villages to massive sambaqui (mortuary mounds). The authors s…
La influencia política de los (las) chamanes mapuches
En este artículo expondré el papel judicial jugado por el (la) chamán mapuche, el machi, en la legitimación del proceso político de toma de decisiones que influyen los eventos, económicos y sociales y las líneas de conductas más importantes en la sociedad mapuche
Metaphoric veiled image-schema of kinship organization in ceremonial space: A south Andean case
This study is an interdisciplinary approach to a veiled metaphoric design expressed in the present-day spatial layout of ecologically-derived patronyms of Mapuche lineages and families positioned in public ceremonial plazas. The perspective combines ethnoarchaeological, cognitive, iconographic, oral tradition, allegoric metaphor, and historical approaches to the organization and meaning of this design, taking into account the past and present dim…
Chimú-Inka Segmented Agricultural Fields in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru: Implications for State-Level Resource Management
In this study, we analyze extensive segmented and standardized agricultural fields in the marginally productive terrain of the Pampa de Guereque in the Jequetepeque Valley on the north coast of Peru. Although portions of the associated canal system were constructed continuously from late Formative to Chimú times, the segmented fields date to the late Chimú-Inka period and were only partially finished, apparently never fully used, and ultimately a…
Monte Verde II: An Assessment of New Radiocarbon Dates and Their Sedimentological Context
Monte Verde II in southern Chile is one of the most important, and debated, sites for understanding of the early peopling of the Americas. The authors present 43 radiocarbon measurements based on cores of sediments that overlie the archaeological deposits adjacent to the site. Statistical analysis of these dates narrows the deposition of the earliest sediments sealing the occupational layer to c. 14 550 cal BP. The consistency between the dates o…
Comment on “Shark fisheries during the second millennium BC in Gramalote, north coast of Peru”
In reporting on prehistoric specialized shark fisheries at the Initial Period site of \nGramalote (~1500–1200 cal BCE) on the north coast of Peru, Prieto suggests that \nsubstantial quantities of sharks were captured by using shell rattles to attract and \nfiber nooses to capture them from small reed boats. Although his research has \nmade a significant contribution to our understanding of prehistoric fishing \nindustries, based on data from earl…
Carlos Ocampo: Un arqueólogo enigmático
Prehistoric reef-building coral occurrence in north Peru
Discovery of a late Pleistocene (∼13,300 cal BP) reef-building coral species (Pocillopora damicornis) at the prehistoric Huaca Prieta settlement in Peru raises the question of its origin. Did it arrive in northern Peru from tropical Ecuador via larval dispersal in south-flowing El Niño currents or over land by human trading? The Holocene distribution of Pocillopora in the eastern Pacific extends as far south as southern Ecuador and possibly north…
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again: Monte Verde and the Peopling of South America
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Brief Rebuttal to Politis and Prates
This comment is a brief response to the opinion statement made by Politis and Prates in this issue of PaleoAmerica. Some of their errors and misunderstandings are corrected. We maintain that the psephites from Monte Verde-I and Chinchihuapi-I are allochthonous and cultural in origin
A Commentary on Coordinating Genetic and Archaeology Studies of First Peoples
Over the past few decades several genetic models have been published to explain the peopling of the Americas. Most of these models have not been fully reconciled with prior ones and with local and regional archaeological records. The implications of this and other concerns are discussed and solutions offered to better coordinate the joint approach of the two disciplines in the study of First Peoples and in archaeology and genetics in general
Monte Verde, Archaeology of
Reflections on the Archaeology of the Parlamentos
Los Camellones Indígenas De Paicaví, Araucanía, Chile, Y Sus Implicancias Socio-Económicas Durante El Periodo Colonial Temprano: Un Enfoque Preliminar
Los campos agrcolas elevados (camellones) localizados en el delta del ro Paicav en la regin de Araucana, en el centro-sur de Chile, se describen y se consideran de manera preliminar en trminos de sus implicancias sociales y econmicas para el periodo Colonial Temprano. El material de archivo de los siglos XVI al XVII indica que esta rea, que era parte de la provincia de Tucapel del denominado Estado de Arauco, posiblemente apoy a los guerreros de …
Economía Aurífera, Caminos Y Fuertes en La Araucanía (Ngülümapu) Del Siglo Xvi: En Torno a La Información De Martín Ruíz De Gamboa De 1579
este artculo analiza la relacin existente entre economa aurfera, estructuras poliorcticas y vas de comunicacin en La Araucana (Nglmapu) del siglo XVI. Se muestra la fragilidad del sistema de ocupacin espaola, pero al mismo tiempo su gran extensin territorial y la operatividad de las vas de comunicacin entre enclaves, puestos avanzadas, faenas mineras y asentamientos indgenas. Se trata de un modelo en que coexisten y se superponen economa
Fladmark + 40: What Have We Learned about a Potential Pacific Coast Peopling of the Americas
Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas-one of the first to support a 'coastal migration theory' that remained marginal for decades. Today, the pre-Clovis occupation at the Monte Verde site is widely accepted, several other pre-Clovis sites are well documented, investigations of terminal Pleistocene subaerial and submer…
Un ensayo sobre genética, arqueología y movilidad humana temprana: Comentado por Francisco Rothhammer y Luis Alberto Borrero - Traducido por Matías Lépori
El propósito de este ensayo es el de expresar mis inquietudes en relación a los modelos genéticos centrados en el poblamiento temprano de las Américas. Mi interés aquí radica simplemente en plantear preguntas y discutir las formas, desde la perspectiva de la arqueología antropológica, de mejorar las contribuciones de los estudios genéticos y, con algo de suerte, generar un acercamiento entre los estudios genéticos y arqueológicos sobre el asunto …
New excavations at the late Pleistocene site of Chinchihuapi I, Chile
This paper presents new excavation data on the Chinchihuapi I (CH-I) locality within the Monte Verde site complex, located along Chinchihuapi Creek in the cool, temperate Valdivian rain forest of south-central Chile. The 2017 and 2018 archaeological excavations carried out in this open-air locality reveal further that CH-I is an intermittently occupied site dating from the Early Holocene (~10,000 cal yr BP) to the late Pleistocene (at least ~14,5…
Finding the first Americans
The first humans to reach the Americas are likely to have come via a coastal route
Where the Land Meets the Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru
Chapter 14 Continuity, Change, and the Construction of the Early Sangamon Society
Night Moon Rituals: The Effects of Darkness and Prolonged Ritual on Chilean Mapuche Participants
Were Hominins in California ∼130,000 Years Ago
In a controversial study published in Nature, Holen et al. (2017) claim that hominins fractured mastodon bones and teeth with stone cobbles in California ∼130,000 years ago. Their claim implies a human colonization of the New World more than 110,000 years earlier than the oldest widely accepted archaeological sites in the Americas. It is also at odds with genetic and fossil evidence for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) o…
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
Earliest hunters and gatherers of South America
Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights
A summary of the main variables accounting for the construction and distribution of historic and contemporary ceremonial fields and earthen burial mounds in the Mapuche society of Chile is presented. This study reveals that monument building is related to the changing social relations between different groups and to a set of historically contingent factors ‐ i.e., long‐term kinship sedimentation, residential contiguity of related lineages, protec…
Fladmark + 40: What Have We Learned about a Potential Pacific Coast Peopling of the Americas
Forty years ago, Knut Fladmark (1979) argued that the Pacific Coast offered a viable alternative to the ice-free corridor model for the initial peopling of the Americas-one of the first to support a 'coastal migration theory' that remained marginal for decades. Today, the pre-Clovis occupation at the Monte Verde site is widely accepted, several other pre-Clovis sites are well documented, investigations of terminal Pleistocene subaerial and submer…
Provincial Inca: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Assessment of the Impact of the Inca State
On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil
The last decades of fieldwork have not decisively upset the long-held view that the settlement of the Americas occurred in the very latest Pleistocene, as marked in North America by the Clovis archaeological horizon at about 11,200 years ago, and by a variety of contemporaneous South American industries. Yet there are several sites that may prove to be older, among them Pedra Furada, in the thorn forest of northeastern Brazil, a large and remarka…
El colonialismo inka, el consumo de chicha y los festines desde una perspectiva de banquetes políticos
Este ensayo analiza el concepto de carácter de "banquetes políticos" de los festines o fiestas públicas en el Estado inka y sus implicancias con el fin de entender ciertos aspectos de la conducta política y el colonialismo prehispánicos. Por lo general, los banquetes auspiciados por el Estado son tanto rituales como políticos y constituyen un instrumento importante en el manejo de las relaciones políticas y del consumo de alimentos y bebida. Se d…
Potato remains from a late pleistocene settlement in southcentral Chile
Were Hominins in California ∼130,000 Years Ago
In a controversial study published in Nature, Holen et al. (2017) claim that hominins fractured mastodon bones and teeth with stone cobbles in California ∼130,000 years ago. Their claim implies a human colonization of the New World more than 110,000 years earlier than the oldest widely accepted archaeological sites in the Americas. It is also at odds with genetic and fossil evidence for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) o…
Archaic Funerary Pattern or Postdepositional Alteration? The Patapatane Burial in the Highlands of South Central Andes
The burial found at Patapatane Cave in the highlands of Arica, northern Chile, yielded an incomplete skeleton of a 20-to-23-year-old female, dating to the end of the Middle Archaic period at 5910 ± 90 B.P. The site is located in a semiarid environment on the eastern side of Sierra de Huaylillas at 3800 m. in the hinterland of Arica, northern Chile. We argue that the missing bones, position of the cranium, and breakage of some elements resulted fr…
Late Quaternary Bison Population Changes On The Southern Plains
An analysis of faunal lists from 160 archaeological and paleontological sites in the Southern Plains reveals a success of long-term periods of presence and absence of the genus Bison in the region. Two absence periods are from about 6000-5000 B.C. to 2500 B.C. and A.D. 500 to A.D. 1200-1300. These long-term changes seem to indicate a combination of fluctuating bison population densities and range shifts. Certain previously documented prehistoric …
Inka Storage Systems
Anthropologists and archaeologists explore how the Inka of pre-Columbian Yucatan integrated the technology of food storage with the political administrative system. Theoretical studies and reports of excavations combine to paint a picture of how increasing efficiency was used to buttress an increasi
Harsh Environments and the Terminal Pleistocene Peopling of the Andean Highlands
Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene
The result of long-term environmental and human interaction is a variety of potential human responses to major natural crises: population aggregation or dispersal, changes in economic strategies and land-use patterns, restructuring of social organization, increase in the incidence of conflict and warfare, and, in some instances, urban abandonment and cultural collapse. In the context of pre-industrial societies, two social processes with the grea…
Revisita Al Tercer Caso De Verticalidad De John Murra en Las Costas De Los Andes Centrales Y Centro Sur
A partir de la confrontacion de datos arqueologicos, etnohistoricos y bioantropologicos de los periodos Intermedio Tardio y Tardio (ca. 1.000-1.530 d.C), se evaluo si las poblaciones del valle de Lluta se organizaron economicamente bajo el Tercer Caso de Verticalidad de John Murra. Para ello centramos la atencion en el sector chaupiyunga, etnocategoria geografica de alta valorizacion en el sistema vertical de pisos ecologicos entre la costa y el …
Tawantinsuyu Integration of the Chillon Valley, Peru: A Case of Inca Geo-Political Mastery
Archeological and ethno-historical data from the coastal, transitional, and lower sierra variants of the Chillon Valley, Central Coast of Peru, have led to a new understanding of the nature of Inca political and economic control of one subjugated region. The data reveal that the region was settled unevenly by the Cuzqueños; a more intensive state occupation of the lower sierra is indicated. It is suggested that control of the valley was managed b…
Early Holocene coca chewing in northern Peru
Chewing coca in South America began by at least 8000 cal BP: our authors found and identified coca leaves of that date in house floors in the Nanchoc Valley, Peru. There were also pieces of calcite - which is used by chewers to bring out the alkaloids from the leaves. Excavation and chemical analysis at a group of neighbouring sites suggests that specialists were beginning to extract and supply lime or calcite, and by association coca, as a commu…
Social Landscape and Ritual Pause: Uncertainty and Integration in Formative Peru
In the study of emergent complexity, little attention has been given to the strategies employed by autonomous household-based communities to overcome the social risks and uncertainties of initial integration and how these strategies can be examined archeologically. Such strategies can be designed to slow the integrative process and to provide small-scale communities with the opportunity to negotiate the form of emerging social cohesion. The Late …
Ancient Cultigens or Modern Intrusions: Evaluating Plant Remains in an Andean Case Study
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative…
El 'Estado De Arauco' Frente a La Conquista Española: Estructuración Sociopolítica Y Ritual De Los Araucano-Mapuches en Los Valles Nahuelbutanos Durante Los Siglos Xvi Y Xvii
Este artículo presenta evidencias arqueológicas y etnohistóricas que muestran la complejidad de la organización sociopolítica de las poblaciones que habitaban los valles que entrecruzan y circundan la cordillera de Nahuelbuta durante el siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, particularmente en el valle de Purén-Lumaco.La hipótesis que se sostiene es que la estructura sociopolítica, la densidad demográfica y las características económicas y cultur…
Cultivated wetlands and emerging complexity in south-central Chile and long distance effects of climate change
Lands in south-central Chile, long thought to have been marginal until the Spanish conquest, are here shown to have been developing complex societies between at least AD 1000 and 1500. Part of the motor was provided by coastland cultivation on raised platforms, here identified and surveyed for the first time. The authors date the field systems and suggest that they were introduced by farmers from the north seeking wetlands in the face of increasi…
Dónde están los restos óseos humanos del Periodo Pleistoceno Tardío? Problemas y perspectivas en la búsqueda de los primeros americanos
En Sudamérica se conocen pocos restos óseos humanos confiables que supuestamente pertenecieron al Pleistoceno Tardío (antes de 10.000 A.P.). Todos ellos tienen problemas de contexto, asociación y/o fechado radiocarbónico. Lo mismo ocurre con el registro humano temprano de Norteamérica. Este problema se discute en términos de 1) visibilidad arqueológica y muestreo, 2) tendencias de estudio variables que afectan el registro, 3) patrones funerarios …
Middle Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru
A decade of intermittent archaeological research in the upper Zaña Valley in northern Peru has documented an intensive Middle Preceramic period (ca. 6000-4200 B.C.) occupation in the tropical-forest and thorn-forest ecotone on the western Andean slopes. This research has revealed one stratified nonresidential site (the Cementerio de Nanchoc), characterized by dual earth mounds, and a complex of small, preceramic residential sites in the Nanchoc b…
A regional perspective of Preceramic times in the central Andes
MacNeish, Richards., Angel Garcia Cook, Luis G. Lumbreras, Robert K. Vierra, and Antoinette Nelkin‐Terner. The Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru: Excavations and Chronology. Volume II. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981. xii + 279 pp. including figures, graphs, tables, references, index. $45.00 cloth. MacNeish, Richard S., Robert K. Vierra, Antoinette Nelkin‐Temer, and Carl J. Phagan. The Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru: No…
Late Quaternary Bison Population Changes On The Southern Plains
An analysis of faunal lists from 160 archaeological and paleontological sites in the Southern Plains reveals a success of long-term periods of presence and absence of the genus Bison in the region. Two absence periods are from about 6000-5000 B.C. to 2500 B.C. and A.D. 500 to A.D. 1200-1300. These long-term changes seem to indicate a combination of fluctuating bison population densities and range shifts. Certain previously documented prehistoric …
Tawantinsuyu Integration of the Chillon Valley, Peru: A Case of Inca Geo-Political Mastery
Archeological and ethno-historical data from the coastal, transitional, and lower sierra variants of the Chillon Valley, Central Coast of Peru, have led to a new understanding of the nature of Inca political and economic control of one subjugated region. The data reveal that the region was settled unevenly by the Cuzqueños; a more intensive state occupation of the lower sierra is indicated. It is suggested that control of the valley was managed b…
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley: The Hurricane Branch Site (40JK27), Jackson County, Tennessee
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
News and Short Contributions
Philip M. Hobler, Christopher Nagle, U. Vincent Wilcox, Tom D. Dillehay, Mario Pino Q., E. Mott Davis, S. Valastro, Jr., Alejandra G. Varela, Rodolfo Casamiquela, Mary Elizabeth King, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1982), pp. 536-553
A regional perspective of Preceramic times in the central Andes
MacNeish, Richards., Angel Garcia Cook, Luis G. Lumbreras, Robert K. Vierra, and Antoinette Nelkin‐Terner. The Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru: Excavations and Chronology. Volume II. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981. xii + 279 pp. including figures, graphs, tables, references, index. $45.00 cloth. MacNeish, Richard S., Robert K. Vierra, Antoinette Nelkin‐Temer, and Carl J. Phagan. The Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru: No…
On Inca Finance
Monte Verde: Adaptación humana en el Centro-Sur de Chile durante el pleistoceno tardio
A brief description of the history of research in the archeological site of Monte Verde and presentation of an example of man's adaptation to sub-antarctic forests during this period
Potato remains from a late pleistocene settlement in southcentral Chile
Prehistoric human occupation in the arid chacabuco-colina ecotone in central chile
Monte Verde, South‐Central Chile: Stratigraphy, climate change, and human settlement
Two sedimentary units are recognized by means of stratigraphic and sedimentological analyses at Monte Verde, a late Pleistocene archeological site with stone tools and well‐preserved wood artifacts and botanical remains, that lies southwest of Lago Llanquihue and north of the Golfo de Reloncavi in the southern end of the Chilean Central graben. the geological evidence shows that at no time after 33,000 yr B.P., and perhaps since the first Llanqui…
Middle Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru
A decade of intermittent archaeological research in the upper Zaña Valley in northern Peru has documented an intensive Middle Preceramic period (ca. 6000-4200 B.C.) occupation in the tropical-forest and thorn-forest ecotone on the western Andean slopes. This research has revealed one stratified nonresidential site (the Cementerio de Nanchoc), characterized by dual earth mounds, and a complex of small, preceramic residential sites in the Nanchoc b…
Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights
A summary of the main variables accounting for the construction and distribution of historic and contemporary ceremonial fields and earthen burial mounds in the Mapuche society of Chile is presented. This study reveals that monument building is related to the changing social relations between different groups and to a set of historically contingent factors ‐ i.e., long‐term kinship sedimentation, residential contiguity of related lineages, protec…
Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile, Volume 1: Palaeoenvironment and Site Context
The Great Debate on the First Americans
L'A. remet en cause le fait que les chasseurs Clovis aient ete les premiers humains a venir de Siberie vers l'Alaska il y a 11 500, 11 000 ans et qu'ils aient migre vers Tierra del Fuego : des objets de plus de 15 000 ans ont ete trouves. Dans son analyse, l'A. s'attarde sur la theorie de la diffusion des traits culturels et souligne que linguistes, geneticiens et anatomistes effectuent des recherches parallelement aux archeologistes
Monte Verde, Chile: A Comment on Lynch
A recent review by Lynch of late Pleistocene sites in South America is impaired by numerous errors and misrepresentations. Although Lynch omits several important sites and often selectively uses data to support his own position, this comment addresses his review of the Monte Verde site in Chile. Although Lynch has not visited Monte Verde and has inspected few artifacts from the site, he questions the Pleistocene association of artifacts and the '…
Earliest hunters and gatherers of South America
The Spanish quest for Empire
Observance of the Columbus Quincentenary has greatest relevance when focused on historical processes at a global scale. Nevertheless, American events and circumstances of the contact period have not received from archaeologists the attention given to the more pre-Hispanic Aztec and Inca.The 16th-century efforts of Spain, and other western European powers, to extend empire overseas into the Americas led to a frontier-state expansion and confrontat…
Archaeological trends in the Southern Cone of South America
On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil
The last decades of fieldwork have not decisively upset the long-held view that the settlement of the Americas occurred in the very latest Pleistocene, as marked in North America by the Clovis archaeological horizon at about 11,200 years ago, and by a variety of contemporaneous South American industries. Yet there are several sites that may prove to be older, among them Pedra Furada, in the thorn forest of northeastern Brazil, a large and remarka…
Inka Storage Systems
Anthropologists and archaeologists explore how the Inka of pre-Columbian Yucatan integrated the technology of food storage with the political administrative system. Theoretical studies and reports of excavations combine to paint a picture of how increasing efficiency was used to buttress an increasi
The Mechanism of Organic Preservation at Monte Verde, Chile, and One Use of Biomolecules in Archaeological Interpretation
Monte verde, a habitation site in southern Chile, is the source of exceptionally well-preserved organic materials. The depositional and chemical circumstances that led to the persistence of this unique assemblage included an anoxic, reducing environment protected by an- overlying peat layer and a silica gel-rich substrate.Utilizing the immunological techniques of ELISA assays and Western blots, a subset of lithic artifacts was tested for blood tr…
Provincial Inca: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Assessment of the Impact of the Inca State
Ancient Cultigens or Modern Intrusions: Evaluating Plant Remains in an Andean Case Study
Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis
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