Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Aguas Verdes industry of northern Chile / L. Lewis Johnson
  • Toolmaking and tool use among the preceramic peoples of Panama / Anthony J. Ranere
  • Population pressure and the origins of agriculture : an archaeological example from the coast of Peru / Mark N. Cohen
  • Origins and distribution of plants domesticated in the New World tropics / Barbara Pickersgill and Charles B. Heiser Jr.
  • Animal domestication in the Andes / Elizabeth S. Wing
  • The pre-Columbian Araucanian chicken (Gallus inauris) of the Mapuche Indians / O.E. Wilhelm
  • Formative-period interaction spheres in the intermediate area : archaeology of Central America and adjacent South America / Thomas P. Myers
  • Ridged-field excavations in the central Orinoco llanos, Venezuela / William M. Denevan and Alberta Zucchi
  • Ecology, economy, and warfare in lowland South America / Robert V. Morey Jr. and John P. Marwitt
  • The formative cultures of the Venezuela oriente / Mario Sanoja and Iraida Vargas
  • Majolica pottery : determination of its provenience using thermoluminescence / J. Eduardo Vaz and José M. Cruxent
  • Interpretation of buried structures : coastal sites of the state of São Paulo, Brazil / L. Pallestrini
  • The cultural and ecological context of the Mantaro Valley during the formative period / R. Matos Mendieta
  • Toward the development of the Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) state / David L. Browman
  • Cerro Sechin : medical anthropology's inauguration in Peru? / Francis X. Grollig
  • Prehistory and petroglyphs in southern Peru / Eloy Linares Málaga
  • Ecological factors affecting the urban transformation in the last centuries of the pre-Columbian era / Duccio Bonavía
  • Toward a typology of architecture and urbanism in the pre-Columbian Andes / Frédéric Engel
  • Manifestations of Inca culture in two provinces of Chile / Jorge Iribarren Charlín
  • Considerations on the periodizations of northwest Argentina / Victor A. Núñez Regueiro
  • Paleoecology of the Calchaquí Valley, Salta Province, Argentina / Myriam N. Tarragó
  • Concerning the archaeology of the Humahuaca Quebrada / José Antonio Pérez
  • Contribution to the San José and Santa María cultures, northwest Argentina / Elena Perrotta and Clara Podestá.