Life And Death At Paloma: Practices In Peruvian Village - Hardcover

Quilter, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087745194X ISBN 13: 9780877451945

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 1989

Synopsis

Life and Death at Paloma, when published in 1989, was the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village. It remains a valuable resource used by students and scholars of Andean archaeology. Jeffrey Quilter analyzes the life of Paloma's people during the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society and offers a study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and their contents.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey Quilter is the author of Cobble Circles and Standing Stones (Iowa 2004), coeditor of Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia and Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu, and director of Pre-Columbian Studies and curator of the Pre-Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C.

Review:

." . . fills in a missing portion of the prehistoric record, and is a useful addition to the ceramic period sequence of C. B. Donnan and C. J. Mackey and the mummy studies of M. J. Allison and E. Gerszten. The data are of particular importance for Peruvian archaeologists."--Choice

"High-quality burial data sets occur rarely. Quilter discusses one such skeletal series representing occupation from 5700 to 2800 b.c. of the Paloma village site located south of Lima, Peru, on the northern edge of the Chilca River Valley. . . . New World archaeologists and mortuary specialists will benefit the most from Quilter's burial data set."--American Antiquity

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 087745194X
• ISBN 13: 9780877451945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203