Ryan Clasby, "The Archaeology of the Upper Amazon: Complexity and Interaction in the Andean Tropical Forest"
English | ISBN: 0813066905 | 2021 | 328 pages | PDF | 31 MB
English | ISBN: 0813066905 | 2021 | 328 pages | PDF | 31 MB
This volume brings together archaeologists working in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to construct a new prehistory of the Upper Amazon, outlining cultural developments from the late third millennium B.C. to the Inca Empire of the sixteenth century A.D. Encompassing the forested tropical slopes of the eastern Andes as well as Andean drainage systems that connect to the Amazon River basin, this vast region has been unevenly studied due to the restrictions of national borders, remote site locations, and limited interpretive models.
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