000 03110cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2172533
003 BD-DhUL
005 20161208181711.0
008 931228s1995 enkab b 001 0 eng
010 _a93051070
020 _a0521444861
_qhardback
035 _a2172533
040 _aDLC
_beng
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dTOC
_dBD-DhUL
043 _as------
_aw------
050 0 0 _aF2229
_b.A73 1995
082 0 0 _a560
_220
_bARM
245 0 0 _aArchaeology in the lowland American tropics :
_bcurrent analytical methods and applications /
_cedited by Peter W. Stahl.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1995.
300 _axvii, 312 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-304) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction / 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.
505 8 _a9. 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.
520 1 _a"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.
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/hlas/
600 1 0 _aLathrap, Donald Ward,
_d1927-
650 0 _aIndians of South America
_xAntiquities.
650 0 _aArchaeology
_xMethodology.
651 0 _aTropics
_xAntiquities.
651 0 _aSouth America
_xAntiquities.
700 1 _aStahl, Peter W.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam021/93051070.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam026/93051070.html
942 _2ddc
_cBK
984 _aANL
_cYY 980.01028 L353A
999 _c133310
_d133310