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

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2020.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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
Summary 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.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2021).
Subject Andes Region -- Civilization.
Andes Region -- History.
Amazon River Region -- Civilization.
Amazon River Region -- History.
Civilization
Amazon River Region
Andes Region
Genre/Form History
Added Author Pearce, Adrian J., editor.
Beresford-Jones, David, editor.
Heggarty, Paul, 1967- editor.
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