Archaeology in Latin America

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-13308-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the first time.
The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin.
This book draws together key areas of research in Latin American archaeological thought into a coherent whole; no other volume on this area has ever dealt with such a diverse range of subjects, and some of the countries examined have never before been the subject of a regional study.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alberti, Benjamin

Politis, Gustavo G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, Part One History and theory: the development of contemporary archaeology in Latin America, Part Two Key issues in Latin American archaeology, Part Three New directions, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gustavo G. Politis is Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, and at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata.
Benjamin Alberti is currently engaged in research and teaching at Southampton University.