Within the pages of this book you will find virtually everything that is known about the rich cultural history of pre-Columbian South America! The contents range from descriptions, drawings, and photographs (with explanations of what they tell the archaeologist) to cogent summaries of the various theories of South American cultural development. It provides readers with a tightly organized survey of the vast panorama of South American history. It also serves as a fingertip reference to excavation sites and findings, languages, geographical and climatic influences, regional differences, cultural traditions, archaeological periods, the growth of various civilizations, and much more.

South America (Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. 2)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gordon R. Willey

Archaeology

PRENTICE/HALL

Method and Theory in American Archaeology (Classic Reprint)

Anthropology

Forgotten Books

WILLEY, G. R., ED.: HANDBOOK OF MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIANS, 2-3: ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN MESOAMERICA, 2 VOLS.. AUSTIN, TX, 1973, xvi 1084 p. fotografias.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica, Parts 1 & 2. (Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 & 3)

History

Robert Wauchope

Americas

Univ of Texas Pr

A history of American archaeology

A History of American Archaeology

W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This invaluable classic provides the framework for the development of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century.
In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology―a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey and Phillips, represented a "theoretical debate . . . a question of whether archaeology should be the study of cultural history or the study of cultural process." Willey and Phillips suggested that little interpretation had taken place in American archaeology, and their book offered an analytical perspective; the methods they described and the structural framework they used for synthesizing American prehistory were all geared toward interpretation. Method and Theory served as the catalyst and primary reader on the topic for over a decade. This facsimile reprint edition of the original University of Chicago Press volume includes a new foreword by Gordon R. Willey, which outlines the state of American archaeology at the time of the original publication, and a new introduction by the editors to place the book in historical context. The bibliography is exhaustive. Academic libraries, students, professionals, and knowledgeable amateurs will welcome this new edition of a standard-maker among texts on American archaeology.

Method and Theory in American Archaeology (Classics in Southeastern Archaeology)

Philip Phillips

R. Lee Lyman

Michael J. O'Brien

University Alabama Press

Excerpt from Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Vir Valley, Per Upon my return from Peru in the fall of 1946, I spent several months revising notes and working over field maps from Viru. In May of 1947, the paper, Viru Valley: Background and Problems, was written in conjunction with Ford. This paper was intended as a joint introduction to Ford's Viru ceramic survey and my settlement study. Later, it was determined that the reports would not be issued together, and so the introductory, Viru Valley: Background and Prob lems, was published with Ford's Cultural Dating of Prehistoric Sites in Viru Valley, Peru (ford and Willey, 1949 a and b). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Virú Valley, Perú (Classic Reprint)

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