Ancient Nasca Settlement
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Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru two thousand years ago and evolved over the course of the next seven hundred years. Helaine Silverman's long-term, multistage work on the south coast of Peru has established her as one of the world's preeminent authorities on this brilliant and enigmatic civilization.  Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society  is the first extended treatment of the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art, largest ground drawings, most intense hunting of human heads as trophies, and most ingenious hydraulic engineering of the pre-Columbian world.

Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society  is based on Silverman's comprehensive survey of the Ingenio Valley, a water-rich tributary of the RĂ­o Grande de Nazca drainage; it also includes a critical synthesis of the settlement pattern data from the other river valleys of the system maps and tables, Silverman allows comparisons among the various phases of change in Nasca society. A companion CD-ROM provides a great deal of graphic material and allows users to manipulate the data in alternative scenarios.

Silverman situates the various classes of Nasca material culture within the spatial, social, economic, political, and ideological realities that can be adduced from the archaeological record. A work of archaeo-logical ethnography focused on a once-living society, this convincing and highly original book illuminates the ancient Nasca people's social construction of space and cultural meaning through their manipulation of their natural setting and their creation of particular kinds of built environments.

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Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9781587294297
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. To Be Human is to Dwell
  4. 2. Environmental Paradoxes
  5. 3. Survey Methodology
  6. 4. Site 165
  7. 5. Nasca 1 Settlement Patterns
  8. 6. Nasca 2 Settlement Patterns
  9. 7. Nasca 3 Settlement Patterns
  10. 8. Nasca 4 Settlement Patterns
  11. 9. Nasca 5 Settlement Patterns
  12. 10. Nasca 6 Settlement Patterns
  13. 11. Nasca 7 Settlement Patterns
  14. 12. Nasca 8/Loro Settlement Patterns
  15. 13. Nasca Settlement Patterns in Other Valleys
  16. 14. The Identifiable Components of Nasca Settlement Patterns
  17. 15. Reconstruction of Nasca Economy
  18. 16. Theorizing Nasca Society
  19. 17. Nasca Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index