Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia divide : a cross-disciplinary exploration /
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore the meeting of the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction to maps and sources
- Geographical base maps
- Point locations: Mountain peaks, cities, settlements, archaeological sites
- Geographical/environmental
- Archaeological/historical
- Language distributions
- Introduction. Why Andes-Amazonia? Why cross-disciplinary?
- Andes-Amazonia: What it means, why it matters
- A case study in environmental determinism
- Reality, myth or scholarly tradition?
- When is a divide not a divide? Andes-Amazonia interactions
- Clarifications: 'Andes' and 'Amazonia', geography and culture
- The broader context to this interdisciplinary project
- Structure of this book
- Chapter summaries
- Part 1. Crossing frontiers: Perspectives from the various disciplines
- Part 2. Deep time and the long chronological perspective
- Part 3. Overall patterns
- and alternative models
- Part 4. Regional case studies from the Altiplano and southern Upper Amazonia
- Part 5. Age of Empires: Inca and Spanish colonial perspectives
- Part 1 Crossing frontiers: Perspectives from the various disciplines
- 1.1 Archaeology
- A transect across the Andes-Amazonia divide
- Archaeology in South America
- The problem of chronology
- From chronology to explanation
- The application of archaeological science
- Andes-Amazonia: A new archaeological orthodoxy?
- Conclusions
- 1.2 Linguistics
- Language lessons on the Andes-Amazonia divide
- Language families: Origins, expansions, migrations and divergence
- Contact and linguistic areas: Interaction and convergence out of diverse origins
- Confusions and clarifications: Divergent families versus convergent areas
- Linguistics and genetics, classification and admixture
- Definitions and circularities?
- The linguistic perspective: Potential, limitations and prospects
- 1.3 Genetics
- Genetic markers
- Ancient DNA
- Genetic diversity in South America
- Genetics and cross-cultural interactions
- 1.4 Anthropology
- Chavín de Huántar
- San Agustín
- The 'geoglyphs' of the Upper Purús
- The Kallawaya
- Conclusion
- 1.5 The Andes-Amazonia culture area
- Part 2 Deep time and the long chronological perspective
- 2.1 Initial east and west connections across South America
- Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: ~15,000-8000 cal bp
- Incipient farming
- Genetic and craniometric evidence
- Early to Middle Holocene
- Epilogue
- 2.2 The Andes-Amazonia divide and human morphological diversification in South America
- 2.3 Deep time and first settlement: What, if anything, can linguistics tell us?
- 1. Deep time and first settlement
- 2. What is so wrong with Greenberg's 'Amerind', 'Andean' and 'Equatorial'?
- 3. Other linguistic misreadings on an Andes-Amazonia divide