geochemical long-distance archaelogical archaeological

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Kasapata And the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley (Cotsen Monograph)

David Brown, 2007

Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known concerning its pre-Inca inhabitants. Until recently it was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages along the valley floor (ca. 1000 BC) and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region. This perspective was challenged during a systematic survey of the valley, when ...

Geochemical Evidence for Long-Distance Exchange:

Praeger Publishers, 2002

Studies of prehistoric exchange of goods provide information about the types of economic interaction, social organization, or political structures in which prehistoric peoples were engaged. Long-distance exchange is a special situation where the materials exchanged crossed significant boundaries, whether they were geographic, social, political, or otherwise. By examining the types and quantities of goods exchanged, along with the directions and ...

Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to the Interpretation of Mat (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry)
Philip J., III Arnold, Ronald L. Bishop, ...

Univ of Utah Pr (Tx), 1999

With firm roots in antiquarianism, archaeology began as the study and collection of things. Even today objects take center stage in many areas of archaeological inquiry. But the past few decades have seen a proliferation of the ways anthropological archaeologists analyze raw materials, tools, techniques, finished products, and discarded objects. MATERIAL MEANINGS examines current approaches to material culture in the archaeological record from ...

Archaelogical Chemistry #968: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation (Acs Symposium Series)
Michael D Glascock, Robert J Speakman, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Archaeologists, historians, chemists, and physicists have employed a variety of chemical and physical approaches to study artifacts and historical objects since at least the late 18th century. During the past 50 years, the chemistry of archaeological materials has increasingly been used to address a broad spectrum of anthropological topics, including preservation, dating, nativity, exchange, provenance, and manufacturing technology. This book ...