Andean Archaeology III

Part I: Introduction: Regional Patterns.- Part II: The North: Introduction.- America's First City? The Case of Late Archaic Caral.- Religious Warfare at Chankillo.- The Vicus-Mochica Relationship.- Competitive Feasting, Religious Pluralism and Decentralized Power in the Late Moche Period.- Northern Exposures: Recuay-Cajamarca Boundaries and Interaction.- Chimu Craft Specialization and Political Economy: A View from the Provinces.- Part III: The South: Introduction.- Early Village Society in the Formative Period in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin.- The Emergence of Complex Society in the Titicaca Basin: The View from the North.- Redefining Plant Use at the Formative Site of Chiripa in the Southern Titicaca Basin.- Ritual and Society in Early Intermediate Period Ayacucho: A View from the Site of Nawinpukyo.- Missing Links, Imaginary Links: Staff God Imagery in the South Andean Past.- Water, Blood and Semen: Signs of Life and Fertility in Nasca Art.- Burial Patterns and Sociopolitical Organization in Nasca 5 Society.- Violence and Rural Lifeways at Two Peripheral Wari Sites in the Majes Valley of Southern Peru.- Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire.- Part IV: Conclusion: Rethinking the Central Andean Co-Tradition.- Index.

From the reviews:

"A revision of the Peruvian Co-tradition as first elaborated in the 1940a (TM)s by Wendell C. Bennett and others. As the premise for a volume it is definitely important and also timely, especially in the light of new models for cultural trajectories in the Andes a ] . I whole-heartedly agree with Isbell and Silverman a ] that this is a probably one of the most important sites to emerge in recent Andean scholarship." (Kevin Lane, Antiquity, Vol. 82, 2008)