Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia

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One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient The usa evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for all the Titicaca region. This can be a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture, to the formation of the Tiwanaku and Pucara civilizations, and to the double conquest of the region, first by the powerful neighboring Inca in the fifteenth century and a century later by the Spanish Crown. In line with more than fifteen years of field research in Peru and Bolivia, Charles Stanish’s book brings together quite a lot of ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, including material that has not yet been published. This landmark work brings the creator’s intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology on this region to bear on major theoretical concerns in evolutionary anthropology.

Stanish provides a broad comparative framework for evaluating how these complex societies developed. After giving an overview of the region’s archaeology and cultural history, he discusses the history of archaeological research in the Titicaca Basin, in addition to its geography, ecology, and ethnography. He then synthesizes the data from six archaeological periods in the Titicaca Basin within an evolutionary anthropological framework.

Titicaca Basin prehistory has long been viewed through the lens of first Inca intellectuals and the Spanish state. This book demonstrates that the ancestors of the Aymara people of the Titicaca Basin rivaled the Incas in wealth, sophistication, and cultural genius. The provocative data and interpretations of this book will also make us think anew about the upward push and fall of other civilizations all over history.

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