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Evaluating the role of inter-societal interaction in the emergence of institutionalized hierarchy : an example from Southern Ecuador
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
Inter-societal interaction has been a popular topic in Andean archaeology from its inception. Long distance trade, vertical reciprocity, state expansion, core-periphery relations, and the spread of ideological constructs ...
Comparative perspectives : an introduction
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
In the last several decades there has been a marked rise in archaeological inquiries and a resulting rapid increase in the information available about past societies. As is common in scientific inquiry, this information ...
Comparative archaeology and the Andes
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
As the editors of this volume observe in their introduction, Andean archaeology has long had a well-developed anti-comparativist streak. Lo andino has been a rallying point for the explicitly articulated view that much ...
Las cronologías del formativo : 50 años de investigaciones japonesas en perspectiva
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
Con esta publicación la PUCP se suma a la celebración de estos cincuenta años de labor peruanista de los estudiosos japoneses, que no solo ha permitido importantes estudios sino un fructífero intercambio entre la PUCP y ...
Comparative perspectives on the archaeology of coastal South America
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialCenter for Comparative Archaeology. University of Pittsburgh, 2010)
The bilingual conference from which the present volume emerged was conceived as a response to this situation, and was held in Lima, Peru in August of 2007. Conference participants were drawn from universities in Canada, ...
Regional patterns of fortification and single forts : evaluating the articulation of regional sociopolitical dynamics with localized phenomena
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
After more than five decades of research in a number of Peruvian coastal valleys there are abundant survey data available that can be brought to bear on anthropological problems of a regional scale. Given the tools available ...
Social organization, technology of production, and the function of utilitarian ceramics for feasting during the Middle and Late Formative Periods in the Central Andes
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
The objective of this paper is to presenta model to explain changes in ceramic assemblages at the end of the Formative period (according to Kaulicke's ( 1994) chronology). These changes began during the Middle Formative ...
Coastal and highland storage systems of the Colesuyo, South Central Andes
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
In this article, we discuss storage systems at two tambos or Inka waystations located in Colesuyo. The first is Camata Tambo, located at approximately 3000 masl in the upper Moquegua Valley, in the ecological zone known ...
La vida y obra de Friedrich Max Uhle. Recientes logros, problemas y perspectivas
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2010)
A inicios del siglo XIX, entre 1799 y 1804, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) emprendió su gran viaje a las «régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent», como reza el título de su obra publicada entre 1807 y 1839. La ...