The Ancient Central Andes 2nd Edition Jeffrey Quilter by Jeffrey Quilter 9780367481513, 9781003038252, 0367481510, 1003038255 instant download after payment.

The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and
cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant
parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina.
The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and provides a balanced view
of current research. Two opening chapters present the intellectual, political, and practi-
cal background and history of research in the Central Andes and the spatial, temporal,
and formal dimensions of the study of its past. Chapters then proceed in chronological
order from remote antiquity to the Spanish Conquest. A number of important themes
run through the book, including: the tension between those scholars who wish to study
Peruvian antiquity on a comparative basis and those who take historicist approaches; the
concept of “Lo Andino,” commonly used by many specialists that assumes long-term,
unchanging patterns of culture some of which are claimed to persist to the present; and
culture change related to severe environmental events. Consensus opinions on interpreta-
tions are highlighted as are disputes among scholars regarding interpretations of the past.
The Ancient Central Andes provides an up-to-date, objective survey of the archaeology
of the Central Andes that is much needed. Students and interested readers will benefit
greatly from this introduction to a key period in South America’s past.
Jeffrey Quilter is an officer of the Institute of Andean Research and, formerly, the direc-
tor of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University; Director of Pre-Columbian Studies at
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC; senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology,
Harvard; and professor of Anthropology at Ripon College, Wisconsin. He has published
numerous articles and books, most recently, Magdalena de Cao: An Early Colonial Town
on the North Coast of Peru.