03110cam a2200373 a 4500 2172533 BD-DhUL 20161208181711.0 931228s1995 enkab b 001 0 eng 93051070 0521444861 hardback 2172533 DLC eng DLC DLC TOC BD-DhUL s------ w------ F2229 .A73 1995 560 20 ARM Archaeology in the lowland American tropics : current analytical methods and applications / edited by Peter W. Stahl. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvii, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-304) and index. Introduction / Peter W. Stahl -- 1. Archaeological survey and site discovery in the forested neotropics / James A. Zeidler -- 2. The archaeology of community organization in the tropical lowlands: a case study from Puerto Rico / Peter E. Siegel -- 3. Archaeological methods for the study of ancient landscapes of the Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon / Clark L. Erickson -- 4. Searching for environmental stress: climatic and anthropogenic influences on the landscape of Colombia / Warwick Bray -- 5. "Doing" paleoethnobotany in the tropical lowlands: adaptation and innovation in methodology / Deborah M. Pearsall -- 6. Plant microfossils and their application in the New World tropics / Dolores R. Piperno -- 7. Differential preservation histories affecting the mammalian zooarchaeological record from the forested neotropical lowlands / Peter W. Stahl -- 8. Biological research with archaeologically recovered human remains from Ecuador: methodological issues / Douglas H. Ubelaker. 9. Interpreting dietary maize from bone stable isotopes in the American tropics: the state of the art / Lynette Norr -- 10. From potsherds to pots: a first step in constructing cultural context from tropical forest archaeology / J. Scott Raymond -- 11. Returning to Pueblo Viejo: history and archaeology of the Chachi (Ecuador) / Warren R. Deboer. "Collection of 11 papers about analytical methods and their recent applications. Methods include survey techniques, community organization, landscapes, environmental stress, paleoethnobotany, plant microfossils, zooarchaeology, human osteology, stable isotope analysis, pottery analysis, and historical evidence. Regional coverage includes Puerto Rico, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ Lathrap, Donald Ward, 1927- Indians of South America Antiquities. Archaeology Methodology. Tropics Antiquities. South America Antiquities. Stahl, Peter W. Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam021/93051070.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam026/93051070.html ddc BK ANL YY 980.01028 L353A 133310 133310 0 0 ddc 0 560_000000000000000_ARM 0 NFIC 250480 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-08 560 ARM x3472(D) 2016-12-08 2016-12-08 BK