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

• Autore: Quilter Jeffrey
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Disciplina: 985
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Paloma Site (Peru); Peru Antiquities
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Life and death at Paloma
• ISBN: 1-58729-198-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811056303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II