Pernil Alto : an agricultural village of the Middle Archaic Period in Southern Peru
| 1. Verfasser: |
Gorbahn, Hermann
, [VerfasserIn]
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|---|---|
| Körperschaft: |
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
[2020].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Forschungen zur Archäologie außereuropäischer Kulturen
Bd. 17 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-447-11417-2 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
Pernil Alto (Online version) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Objective
- Aims of research
- Methods
- Approach
- Field methods
- Excavation
- Geoelectric prospection
- Geomagnetic prospection
- Survey
- Analyses
- Artifact analyses
- Radiocarbon analyses and dating
- Archaeobotany
- Faunal remains
- Physical Anthropology
- Strontium analysis
- The archaic period
- History of research
- Chronology
- The Archaic Period
- Economic developments in the Middle Archaic Period
- The Late Archaic Period
- Conclusion of the economic developments in the Archaic Period
- The Archaic Period in the working area in the Rio Grande basin
- Environment
- The landscape of Southern Peru
- The topography of the working area
- Current climatic conditions
- The current ecological zones in the working area
- Climatic conditions in the middle Holocene
- General Trends
- El Nino onset
- Interim conclusion of the climatic conditions in the central Andes
- Paleoclimate in the working region-- Tentative reconstruction of the paleolandscape of the working area
- The site of Pernil Alto
- Location
- History of research
- Excavation
- Units
- Progression of the excavations directed towards the Middle Archaic occupation
- Near-site Prospection
- Excavation Method and documentation
- Sampling
- Preservation conditions and erosion
- Classes of features
- Dating and Chronology
- Stratigraphy and Layers
- Harris diagram
- Problems in the generation of the Harris diagram
- Period separation of the Harris diagram
- Modelled rediocarbon chronology
- Rectification of the stratigraphy using the modelled radiocarbon dates
- Structures
- Burials
- Artifacts
- Lithic artifacts
- Lithic raw material
- Flakes and flake tools
- Cobbles and cobble tools
- Cores and core tools
- Bone artifacts
- Raw materials
- Braiding tools
- Pendants
- Spatulas
- Awl
- Spear thrower head
- Figurine
- Undetermined bone artifact
- Wooden artifacts
- Trimmed woods-- Pointed woods
- Split woods
- Scantlings
- Tied up woods
- Carved wood
- Jewelry
- Beads
- Pendants
- Braces and necklaces
- Feather decoration
- Raw material
- Cords
- Knotted textiles
- Looped textiles
- Plant fibers
- Twined textiles
- Other artifacts
- Bottle gourd epicarps and vessels
- Color remains
- Quartz fragments
- Headdress or coiffure
- Fur cap
- Spindle whorls
- Natural sediment remains
- Conclusion of the artifact spectrum
- Botanical remains
- Analyses of the macro-remains
- Food plant remains
- Cultivated plants
- Wild collected plants
- Industrial plants
- Pollen and phytolith remains from grinding tools
- Pollen remains from intra site samples
- Faunal remains
- Vertebrates remains
- Invertebrates remains
- Further results
- Caries ratios
- Strontium analyses
- Dwellings
- Artifacts as indicators for activities
- Procedure
- Data analysis
- Results
- Activities by phase
- Conclusion of the activity analyses-- Structure of the Middle Archaic settlements
- Activity areas in the settlement
- Settlement structure
- Settlement development
- The society of Pernil Alto
- Burial rites
- Social structure
- The burial practices of Pernil Alto in the context of the Archaic periods
- Economy
- Characterization of animal use
- Ratios of the food plant remains
- The subsistence of Pernil Alto
- Direct indicators for the diet at Pernil Alto
- Indirect indicators of the diet
- Indirect indicators of the economy from the site placement
- Indirect indicators of social type
- Cultivation at Pernil Alto
- Final characterization of the economy at Pernil Alto
- Mobility
- Indicators for mobility and sedentariness
- Mobility or sedentism at Pernil Alto?
- Indicators for sedentism
- Indicators for mobility
- Not assignable indicators
- Conclusion of the state of mobility or sedentism
- Connections between Pernil Alto and other environmental zones-- Comments on the settlement on the middle Rio Grande section during the Middle Archaic Period
- Summary and Conclusion
- Efficacy of the applied methods and procedures
- The Middle Archaic Settlement of Pernil Alto
- The economy of Pernil Alto
- Mobility at Pernil Alto
- The society of Pernil Alto
- The village of Pernil Alto
- Pernil Alto in the context of the Rio Grande basin
- The importance of the climate for the developments at Pernil Alto
- Possible explanation for the developments at Pernil Alto
- Pernil Alto in the perspective of the emergence of civilizations in the Central Andes
- Future research possibilities
- Kurzzusammenfassung
- Brief summary.
