Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why Andes-Amazonia? Why Cross-Disciplinary? — Adrian J. Pearce, David Beresford-Jones, and Paul HeggartySection 1: Crossing Frontiers: Perspectives from the Various Disciplines 1.1  Archaeology — David Beresford-Jones and Eduardo Machicado Murillo 1.2  Linguistics — Paul Heggarty 1.3  Genetics — Lars Fehren-Schmitz 1.4  Anthropology — Alf Hornborg 1.5  The Andes-Amazonia Culture Area — Tom ZuidemaSection 2: Deep Time and the Long Chronological Perspective 2.1  Initial East and West Connections across South America — Tom Dillehay 2.2  The Andes-Amazonia Divide and Human Morphological Diversification in South America — André Strauss 2.3  Deep Time and First Settlement: What, If Anything, Can Linguistics Tell Us? — Paul Heggarty 2.4  Early Social Complexity in Northern Peru and its Amazonian Connections — Peter Kaulicke 2.5  Changing Andes-Amazonia Dynamics: El Chuncho Meets El Inca at the End of the Marañón Corridor — Alexander Herrera WassilowskySection 3: Overall Patterns – and Alternative Models 3.1  How Real is the Andes-Amazonia Divide? An Archaeological View from the Eastern Piedmont — Darryl Wilkinson 3.2  Genetic Diversity Patterns in the Andes and Amazonia — Fabrício Santos 3.3  Genetic Exchanges in the Highland /Lowland Transitional Environments of South America — Chiara Barbieri 3.4  Broad-Scale Patterns Across the Languages of the Andes and Amazonia — Paul Heggarty 3.5  Highland-Lowland Relations: A Linguistic View — Rik van Gijn and Pieter Muysken 3.6  Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Language Expansion for Ancient Amazonians — Eduardo Góes Neves 3.7  The Pacific Coast and Andean Highlands /Amazonia — Tom Dillehay, Brian McCray, and Patricia J. NetherlySection 4: Regional Case Studies from the Altiplano and Southern Upper Amazonia 4.1   Linguistic Connections between the Altiplano Region and the Amazonian Lowlands — Willem Adelaar 4.2   Hypothesised Language Relationships across the Andes-Amazonia Divide: The Cases of Uro, Pano-Takana and Mosetén — Roberto Zariquiey 4.3   The Andes as Seen From Mojos — Heiko Prümers 4.4   The Archaeological Significance of Shell Middens in the Llanos de Moxos: Between the Andes and Amazonia — Umberto Lombardo and José M. CaprilesSection 5: Age of Empires: Inca and Spanish Colonial Perspectives 5.1  The Amazonian Indians as Viewed by Three Andean Chroniclers — Vera Tyuleneva 5.2  The Place of Antisuyu in the Discourse of Guamán Poma de Ayala — Cristiana Bertazoni   5.3  Colonial Coda: The Andes-Amazonia Frontier under Spanish Rule — Adrian J. Pearce 5.4  A Case Study in Andes-Amazonia Relations under Colonial Rule: The Juan Santos Atahualpa Rebellion (1742-1752) — Adrian J. PearceConclusion: The Andes-Amazonia Divide: Myth and Reality — Adrian J. Pearce, David Beresford-Jones, and Paul Heggarty Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Adrian J. Pearce is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American History at UCL. His research focuses on Spanish and British colonialism in the Americas, the native peoples of the Andes, and (most recently) the Falklands War of 1982. Since 2008, he has been a participant in the on-going interdisciplinary project concerned with key issues of South American population prehistory of which this volume is the latest product. He has published British Trade with Spanish America, 1763-1808 (2007) and The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700-1763 (2014), and co-edited History and Language in the Andes (2011). David G. Beresford-Jones is a fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. For the past fifteen years he has directed investigations into past human-environment interactions on the south coast of Peru. He also has interests in hunter-gatherer ecology, the transition to agriculture, archaeobotany, ancient fabric and textile technologies and cross-disciplinary synthesis. He is the author of The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca (Oxford, 2011) and co-editor of Archaeology and Language in the Andes (Oxford, 2012) and Lenguas y sociedades en el antiguo Perú (Lima, 2011). Paul Heggarty is a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. His research focus is on language (pre)history, aiming to ensure that the perspective from linguistics is better understood outside that field, to contribute to a more coherent, cross-disciplinary vision of the past. He works closely with archaeologists, geneticists and historians, especially on the expansion histories of the main language families of the Andes: Quechua and Aymara. Since 2008 he has convened, along with his co-editors of this book, a series of nine interdisciplinary conferences and symposia on the Andean past.

Review :
'This book stands as the benchmark in the academic dialogue: it is required reading for regional archaeologists or others interested in Indigenous people.' Latin American Antiquity 'Without a doubt [this is] a book that is worth having as a reference source for the study and work of archaeology in South America.' Antropología: Cuardernos de Investigación