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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811056303321

Autore

Quilter Jeffrey

Titolo

Life and death at Paloma [[electronic resource] ] : society and mortuary practices in a preceramic Peruvian village

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1989

ISBN

1-58729-198-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages)

Disciplina

985

Soggetti

Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Peru

Indians of South America -- Peru -- Antiquities

Paloma Site (Peru)

Peru -- Antiquities

Indians of South America - Funeral customs and rites - Peru

Indians of South America - Peru - Antiquities

Paloma Site (Peru)

Peru Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword, by Robert A. Benfer; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Climate, Chronology, and Culture in Early Peru; 2. The Site of Paloma; 3. The Archaeological Discoveries at Paloma; 4. Quantitative Analyses of the Paloma Burials; 5. Discussion of Faloma Mortuary Practices; 6. Paloma and Preceramic Cultural History and Processes; Appendix 1. Burial Illustrations and Data; Appendix 2. Supplementary Tables; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Life and Death at Paloma, when published in 1989, was the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village. It remains a valuable resource used by students and scholars of Andean archaeology. Jeffrey Quilter analyzes the life of Paloma's people during the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society and offers a study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and their contents.