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Montane Foragers :

0877456216 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780877456216 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Montane Foragers :

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Asana and the south-central Andean archaic /

by Mark S. Aldenderfer.

Iowa City :

University of Iowa Press,

c1998.

xv, 327 p. :

ill., maps ;

29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index.

1. High-Mountain Environments as a Human Habitat -- 2. The South-Central Andes and the Osmore Basin as a Human Habitat -- 3. The Archaic Period Archaeology of the Western Flanks of the South-Central Andes -- 4. Field and Analytical Methods -- 5. The Geological Setting of Asana -- 6. The Discovery and Initial Permanent Settlement of the Highlands -- 7. Growth, Emergent Complexity, and Decline: Asana from 8700 to 5000 B.P. -- 8. Rapid Transformation: Asana from 5000 to 3600 B.P. -- 9. Asana and Models of Montane Foraging.

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"All previous books dealing with prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the high Andes have treated ancient mountain populations from a troglodyte's perspective, as if they were little different from lowlanders who happened to occupy jagged terrain. In Montane Foragers, Mark Aldenderfer builds a unique and penetrating model of montane foraging that justly shatters this traditional approach to ancient mountain populations." "Aldenderfer's investigation elucidates elevational stress - what it takes for humans to adjust and survive at high altitudes. In a masterful integration of mountain biology and ecology, he emphasizes the nature of hunter-gatherer adaptations to high-mountain environments." "Aldenderfer's detailed archaeological case study of high-elevation foraging adaptation, his description of this extreme environment as a viable human habitat, and his theoretical model of montane foraging create a new understanding of the lifeways of foraging peoples worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.

Montane Foragers.

Excavations (Archaeology)-- Peru-- Asana River Valley.

Hunting and gathering societies-- Peru-- Asana River Valley.

Indians of South America-- Anthropometry-- Peru-- Asana River Valley.

Indians of South America-- Food-- Peru-- Asana River Valley.

Indians of South America-- Peru-- Asana River Valley-- Antiquities.

Mountain ecology-- Peru-- Asana River Valley.

Asana River Valley (Peru), Antiquities.

Asana Site (Peru)

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