Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia divide a cross-disciplinary exploration

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

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Other Authors: Pearce, Adrian J. (Editor), Beresford-Jones, David (Editor), Heggarty, Paul (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2020, 2020©2020
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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? 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
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