Beyond the Nasca Lines
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abandonment
agriculture
ancient
archaeology
artifacts
Author_Christina A. Conlee
Beyond the Nasca Lines
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Christina Conlee
climate
coast
Collapse
Complex Societies
craft
cultural history
culture
Desert
draught
Early Horizon
Early Intermediate Period
earthquakes
economic
El Nino
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fog oasis
gatherer
geoglyphs
geography
highlands
hunter
Inca
irrigation
La Tiza
lomas
marine resources
methods
migration
modern
mortuary practices
Nasca Drainage
obsidian
Peru
political
pre-Columbian
preceramic
regeneration
religion
sacred landscape
sedentary
settlers
South America
stratigraphy
Tiwanaku
trophy heads
warfare
Wari
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062020
- Weight: 587g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Inhabited for over 5000 years before European colonization, the site of La Tiza in Peru’s Nasca Desert provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the dynamics of ancient complex societies. This volume takes a long temporal perspective on La Tiza from the Preceramic through the Inca era, studying the site within the context of broader developments such as the rise of Nasca culture, subsequent conquest by the Wari Empire, collapse, abandonment, and the reformation of a new society.
Christina Conlee synthesizes data she obtained while directing a multi-year excavation at the site with data from other investigations to reconstruct the development of social complexity over time. She includes detailed descriptions of the stratigraphy and artifacts, carefully separating materials from each period. Exploring how political integration, religious practices, economics, and the environment shaped societal transformations at La Tiza, Conlee offers patterns that can be found in other areas and can be used to understand the development of other longlasting civilizations.
Christina Conlee synthesizes data she obtained while directing a multi-year excavation at the site with data from other investigations to reconstruct the development of social complexity over time. She includes detailed descriptions of the stratigraphy and artifacts, carefully separating materials from each period. Exploring how political integration, religious practices, economics, and the environment shaped societal transformations at La Tiza, Conlee offers patterns that can be found in other areas and can be used to understand the development of other longlasting civilizations.
Christina A. Conlee is associate professor of anthropology at Texas State University, USA.
