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

• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : UCL Press, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 pages)
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetto topico: Civilization
• Persona (resp. second.): HeggartyPaul; Beresford-JonesDavid G.; PearceAdrian J.
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide; Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia divide
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910512207203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II