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The South American camelids /
"One of the most significant differences between the New World's major areas of high culture is that Mesoamerica had no beasts of burden and wool, while the Andes had both. Four members of the camelid family - wild guanacos and vicunas, and domestic llamas and alpacas - were native to the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Los Angeles :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California,
2008.
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| Edición: | Expanded and corr. ed. |
| Colección: | Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ;
64. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The taxonomy and phylogeny of the South American camelids
- Notes on the biology of the South American camelids
- Notes on the paleontology of the South American camelids
- Archaeological data from Peru
- The process of domesticating the South American camelids
- Historical data
- Camelid herds and caravans : numbers, killings, abuses, regulations, fertility, and diseases, according to documentary sources
- Data from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Archaeological and historical data from other Latin American countries
- The feeding and use of camelids : advantages and disadvantages of native and imported animals
- Did pastoralism exist in the Andes?
- The current distribution of the South American camelids : causes and consequences : can a historically accurate statistic be prepared?
- Camels in Peru
- Concluding remarks
- Appendix A. Animal remains from archaeological sites in the Ayacucho Basin below 3000 m elevation / by Elizabeth Wing
- Appendix B. Animal remains from archaeological sites in the Ayacucho Basin above 3000 m elevation / by Kent V. Flannery.