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Record Nr.

UNINA9910512207203321

Titolo

Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide : a cross-disciplinary exploration / / edited by Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones, Paul Heggarty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : UCL Press, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 pages)

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.