Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Tom D. Dillehay
  • Research history, methods, and site types / Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen and Greg Maggard
  • Pleistocene and Holocene environments from the Zaña to the Chicama Valleys 25,000 to 6,000 years ago / Patricia J. Netherly
  • El Palto phase (13800-9800 BP) / Greg Maggard and Tom D. Dillehay
  • Las Pircas phase (9800-7800 BP) / Jack Rossen
  • Tierra Blanca phase (7800-5000 BP) / Kary Stackelbeck and Tom D. Dillehay
  • Preceramic mounds and hillside villages / Tom D. Dillehay, Patricia J. Netherly and Jack Rossen
  • Human remains / John Verano and Jack Rossen
  • Preceramic plant gathering, gardening, and farming / Jack Rossen
  • Faunal remains / Kary Stackelbeck
  • Technologies and material culture / Tom D. Dillehay, Greg Maggard, Jack Rossen and Kary Stackelbeck
  • Settlement and landscape patterns / Tom D. Dillehay
  • From foraging to farming and community development / Tom D. Dillehay, Jack Rossen and Kary Stackelbeck
  • Northern Peruvian early and middle preceramic agriculture in Central and South American context / Dolores Piperno
  • Conclusions / Tom D. Dillehay
  • Appendix 1. Radiocarbon dates for all preceramic phases and subphases
  • Appendix 2. Dry forest biomes of the coastal valleys and lower western slopes of Northwestern Peru / Patricia J. Netherly
  • Appendix 3. Stable carbon isotopes / Patricia J. Netherly
  • Appendix 4. Faunal species presented in preceramic assemblages by phase in the Jequetepeque and Zaña valleys.