ISBN:
9780915703883
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 382 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan Number 59
Series Statement:
Studies in Latin American ethnohistory & archaeology Volume 12
Series Statement:
Studies in Latin American ethnohistory & archaeology
DDC:
985/.25
Keywords:
Coastal archaeology
;
Environmental archaeology
;
Biotic communities History To 1500
;
Coastal ecology History To 1500
;
Plant remains (Archaeology)
;
Animal remains (Archaeology)
;
Indians of South America Antiquities
;
Indians of South America Economic conditions
;
Ethnoarchaeology
;
Cerro Azul Site (Peru)
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Cerro Azul
;
Küstengebiet
;
Ökosystem
;
Ethnoarchäologie
;
Archäobotanik
;
Archäozoologie
Abstract:
Part I. An introduction to the Kingdom of Huarco and its ecosystems -- The ecosystems of the Kingdom of Huarco / Joyce Marcus -- Provenience and context of the plant and animal remains at Cerro Azul / Joyce Marcus -- Part II. How Cerro Azul made use of trophic levels 2, 3, and 4 -- The collection of shellfish / Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus -- The collection of crustaceans / Kent V. Flannery and Jeffrey D. Sommer -- Crayfish trapping / Joyce Marcus and Ramiro Matos -- The fish resources of Cerro Azul in the 1980s / Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus -- Fishing strategies and fishing gear / Joyce Marcus -- The drying of fish for export / Joyce Marcus -- The archaeological fish remains from Cerro Azul / Jeffrey D. Sommer and Kent V. Flannery -- The hunting of birds and mammals / Joyce Marcus -- The bird life of Cañete and the avifauna of Cerro Azul / Joyce Marcus and Christopher P. Glew -- The hunting of marine mammals / Christopher P. Glew and Kent V. Flannery -- Part III. The use of plants at Cerro Azul -- Edible, ritual, and medicinal plants / C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Joyce Marcus -- Comments on the late Intermediate maize / C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Joyce Marcus -- Phaseolus and erythrina from Cerro Azul / Lawrence Kaplan -- Industrial plants / C. Earle Smith, Jr. and Joyce Marcus -- Part IV. The domestic animals, their skeletal remains and their by-products -- Camelids and ch'arki at Cerro Azul / Christopher P. Glew and Kent V. Flannery -- Domestic dogs / Kent V. Flannery and Christopher P. Glew -- The raising of guinea pigs / Christopher P. Glew and Kent V. Flannery -- Macrofossil and palynological analysis of the coprolites from Cerro Azul / John G. Jones -- Part V. The interface of ecology and economy -- The economy of the Kingdom of Huarco / Joyce Marcus -- Appendix A: Artisanal fishing at Cerro Azul, 1984-86 / Khalid Kattan, Robert G. Reynolds, and Joyce Marcus
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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