The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.

Politics & Social Sciences

Marcus, Joyce

Reynolds, Robert G.

FLANNERY, Kent V.

Anthropology

Academic Pr

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru. Data on herd dynamics are subjected to computer modeling in an effort to evaluate the roles of biology, symbolic and ritual behavior, ecological adaptation, and practical reason. The book contains the most detailed study of the waytakuy llama marking ceremony yet available. The role of this ceremony in preventing herds from going to extinction is evaluated against anthropological and sociobiological theory. This is an interdisciplinary book will appeal to professional archaeologists, prehistorians, cultural anthropologists, Andeanists, theoretical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and zoologists interested in animal domestication.

Reference

Emerald Group Pub Ltd

A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico's Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collection has become a basic resource in the literature of Mesoamerican prehistory and has been widely cited by scholars working on divergent evolution in other parts of the world.

The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of The Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations

"Important new synthesis of the Paleoindian through classic periods. Develops an action theory framework to explain formation of the first Zapotec State and the founding and growth of Monte Albâan. Written in an accessible style and exceptionally well illustrated with drawings and photographs (some color) on glossy paper"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley (New Aspects of Antiquity)

History

Americas

Thames&Hudson

San José Mogote, an early village and chiefly center in Mexico s Oaxaca Valley, was excavated over a fifteen-year period. This volume reports in detail on every Early and Middle Formative house recovered, including a complete inventory of artifacts, features, plants, animal bones, and craft raw materials by house, with extensive piece-plotting of items on house floors and dooryards. Reynolds multidimensional scaling confirms the presence of distinct wards within the community. Future volumes will cover the public, religious, and mortuary archaeology.

Excavation at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (Memoirs) (Volume 40)

U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

San José Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Occupied for a thousand years before the city of Monte Albán was founded, San José Mogote sent most of its population to Monte Albán at 500 BC and was later reborn as a second-level administrative center for the Zapotec state. The University of Michigan is publishing the final site report on San José Mogote in three volumes: first the household archaeology (published in 2005), then the cognitive archaeology (2015), and finally the mortuary archaeology. Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (2015) deals with every building and feature that can shed light on indigenous ritual, religion, and political ideology. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail more than 35 public buildings, including men s houses, one-room temples, a performance platform, two-room state temples, a ballcourt, and two types of palaces. These new empirical data allow the authors to reconstruct the evolution of complex Zapotec state religion from the simpler ritual features and buildings of Oaxaca s earliest sedentary communities. Many basic concepts of indigenous belief endured for thousands of years, but dramatic innovations signaled the periodic transformation of Zapotec religion to keep up with changes in society and politics. Some readers may want to purchase both Excavations at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology and Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology.

Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (Volume 58) (Memoirs)

Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The oldest stratigraphic level in Cueva Blanca yielded Late Pleistocene fauna, including some species no longer present in southern Mexico. The second oldest level, Zone E, produced Early Archaic material with calibrated dates as old as 11,000-10,000 BC&nbsp;.&nbsp; Zones D and C provided a rich Late Archaic assemblage whose closest ties are with the Abejas phase of Puebla's Tehuacán Valley (fourth millennium BC).&nbsp; Spatial analyses undertaken on the Archaic living floors include (1) the drawing of density contours for tools and animal bones; (2) a search for Archaic tool kits using rank-order and cluster analysis; and (3) an attempt to define Binfordian "drop zones" using an approach drawn from computer vision. <div>&nbsp;</div>

Cueva Blanca: Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca (Volume 60) (Memoirs)

Hole, Frank

Routledge

Gheo-Shih: An Archaic Macroband Camp in the Valley of Oaxaca (Volume 66) (Memoirs)

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The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of The Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations

Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley (New Aspects of Antiquity)

Excavation at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (Memoirs) (Volume 40)

Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (Volume 58) (Memoirs)

Cueva Blanca: Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca (Volume 60) (Memoirs)

The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru

Gheo-Shih: An Archaic Macroband Camp in the Valley of Oaxaca (Volume 66) (Memoirs)