Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g
Reihe: Cambridge World Archaeology
Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g
Reihe: Cambridge World Archaeology
ISBN: 978-0-521-25920-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
South America is still the least known continent in the world. Isolated for all of prehistory and much of its history, it is quite alien to the average European, Asian, or North American. Yet this continent witnessed the development of a series of cultures and of advanced civilizations which rival anything in Eurasia or Africa. Independently South American peoples invented agriculture and domesticated animals, pottery, elaborate architecture, and the arts of working metals. Tribes, chiefdoms, and immense conquest states rose, flourished, and disappeared leaving only their ruined monuments and broken artifacts as testimonials to past greatness. Ancient South America encompasses ten millennia of cultural development and diversity. Accessibly written and abundantly illustrated, this book will be enjoyed by students of archaeology, anthropology, and art history.
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1. Still a new world; 2. A matter of time; 3. The physical setting; 4. The first peoples: 12,000–6000 BC; 5. Settling down: 6000–3500 BC; 6. The problem of maize; 7. Cultural intensifications in the Andes: 3500–2000 BC; 8. Ceramics: their origins and technology; 9. The first civilizations: 2000–200 BC; 10. Textiles: the high art of South America; 11. Metallurgy; 12. Regional diversification and development: 200 BC–AD 600; 13. Iconographic studies; 14. Militaristic and religious movements in the Andes: AD 500–900; 15. Transport and trade; 16. Kingdoms, chiefdoms and empires: AD 900–1438; 17. The sixteenth century; 18. Intercontinental movements before Columbus; 19. The future of a continent; Appendices.
