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The Andes are of unquestioned significance to the human story: a cradle of agriculture and of 'pristine' civilisation with a pedigree of millennia. The Incas were but the culmination of a succession of civilisations that rose and fell to leave one of the richest archaeological records on Earth. By no coincidence, the Andes are home also to our greatest surviving link to the speech of the New World before European conquest: the Quechua language family. For linguists, the native tongues of the Andes make for another rich seam of data on origins, expansions and reversals throughout prehistory. Historians and anthropologists, meanwhile, negotiate many pitfalls to interpret the conflicting mytho-histories of the Andes, recorded for us only through the distorting prism of the conquistadors' world-view. Each of these disciplines opens up its own partial window on the past: very different perspectives, to be sure, but all the more complementary for it. Frustratingly though, specialists in each field have all too long proceeded largely in ignorance of great strides being taken in the others. This book is a long overdue meeting of minds, bringing together a worldwide cast of pre-eminent scholars from each discipline. Here they at last converge their disparate perspectives into a true cross-disciplinary focus, to weave together a more coherent account of what was, after all, one and the same prehistory. The result, instructive also far beyond the Andes, is a rich case-study in the pursuit of a more holistic vision of the human past.

Table of Contents:
David Beresford-Jones & Paul Heggarty: Introduction - Archaeology and Language in the Andes: A Much-Needed Conversation Colin Renfrew: Archaeology and Language in the Andes: Some General Models of Change David Beresford-Jones & Paul Heggarty: Broadening Our Horizons: Towards an Interdisciplinary Prehistory of the Andes Pieter Muysken: Modelling the Quechua-Aymara Relationship: Sociolinguistic Scenarios and Possible Archaeological Evidence Peter Kaulicke: On the Origins of Social Complexity in the Central Andes and Possible Linguistic Correlations Richard Burger: Central Andean Language Expansion and the Chavín Sphere of Interaction George F. Lau: The 1st Millennium ad in North Central Peru: Critical Perspectives on a Linguistic Prehistory Willem Adelaar: Cajamarca Quechua and the Expansion of the Huari State 155 William H. Isbell: Middle Horizon Imperialism and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Andean Languages Gordon McEwan: Indicators of Possible Driving Forces for the Spread of Quechua and Aymara Reflected in the Archaeology of Cuzco Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino: Unravelling the Enigma of the 'Particular Language' of the Incas Bill Sillar: Accounting for the Spread of Quechua and Aymara Between Cuzco and Lake Titicaca Gary Urton: The Herder-Cultivator Relationship as a Paradigm for Archaeological Origins, Linguistic Dispersals and the Evolution of Record Keeping in the Andes Anne-Marie Hocquenghem: How did Quechua Reach Ecuador? Elizabeth DeMarrais: Quechua's Southern Boundary: The Case of Santiago del Estero, Argentina Conclusion - A Cross-Disciplinary Prehistory for the Andes? Paul Heggarty & David Beresford-Jones: Surveying the State of the Art

About the Author :
Paul Heggarty is Senior Scientist, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig David Beresford-Jones is Research Associate, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Review :
This book offers a splendid conspectus of issues on many aspects of the Andean past and provides a blueprint for the questions which further researchers should explore. Further examination of such questions will henceforth be unthinkable without students of the topic examining this rich and diverse collection of handsomely-edited papers. Anthony Grant, Edge Hill University


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  • ISBN-13: 9780197265031
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 974 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197265030
  • Publisher Date: 17 May 2012
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 440
  • Series Title: 173 Proceedings of the British Academy
  • Sub Title: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Prehistory
  • Width: 169 mm


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