"Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-I is the first in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of human settlement in the region, from the Early Archaic to the early Colonial Period. This book contains both short research reports as well as longer synthetic essays on work conducted over the last decade. It will be a critical resour ..."
"This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile in a single place the latest thinking about archaeological methods. Topics range from theoretical models undergirding research to concrete strategies for field work and laboratory analysis. Public archaeology topics such as curation, collaboration, funding, and publication are also included among the 34 chapters in the book. Chapters are author ..."
"Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-I is the first in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of human settlement in the region, from the Early Archaic to the early Colonial Period. This book contains both short research reports as well as longer synthetic essays on work conducted over the last decade. It will be a critical resour ..."
"Of the many approaches to spatial analysis and visualization that have been developed over the past 30 years and applied to archaeological problems, arguably the most influential of these is the geographic information system (GIS). Despite its importance, there is at present no single volume treatment of the fundamentals of GIS written specifically for archaeologists and the unique problems they face in implementing them. This volume ..."
"This ambitious two-volume work, produced by a team of American academics, presents 418 essays, over half of which were originally published in previous Great Events from History volumes which covered Europe and North America. The scope of this volume is much larger, covering Europe, Africa, the Near East, Egypt, Asia, the Americas and the Mediterranean from the approximated date of the earliest rock-art to the fall of Rome on `Septemb ..."
"Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies o ..."
Cluster Analysis(1st Edition) (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Mark S. Aldenderfer, Roger K. Blashfield Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1984 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-2376-8, ISBN: 0-8039-2376-7
"Although clustering -- the classifying of objects into meaningful sets -- is an important procedure, cluster analysis as a multivariate statistical procedure is poorly understood. This volume is an introduction to cluster analysis for professionals, as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with little or no background in the subject. Reaching across disciplines, Aldenderfer and Blashfield pull together the newest info ..."
Montane Foragers(1st Edition) Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic by Mark S. Aldenderfer Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87745-621-6, ISBN: 0-87745-621-6
"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. Early mountain populations have been transformed into generic foragers because the basic nature of high-altitude stress and biological adaptation has not been addressed. In "Montane Foragers, " Mark ..."
"Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes is a comprehensive and challenging look at the burgeoning field of Andean domestic architecture. Aldenderfer and fourteen contributors use domestic architecture to explore two major topics in the prehistory of the south-central Andes: the development of different forms of complementary relationships between highland and lowland peoples and the definition of ..."
" Investigates how the issue of power is approached by scholars of the South American Andes Represent a wide range of regional, temporal, methodological, and theoretical perspectives on the prehispanic Andes from the Preceramic Period (representing the earliest sedentary societies) through the Late Horizon (the expansionary phase of the Inca Empire) Brings together an array of approaches-both theoretical and methodological--as they are c ..."
Handbook of Gis in Archaeology - Hardback(Updated) (Series : Equinox Handbooks in Anthropological Archaeology) by MarkAldenderfer Staff (2013, Hardcover) by MarkAldenderfer Staff Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Equinox Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-904768-62-3, ISBN: 1-904768-62-8
"Of the many approaches to spatial analysis and visualization that have been developed over the past 30 years and applied to archaeological problems, arguably the most influential of these is the geographic information system (GIS). Despite its importance, there is at present no single volume treatment of the fundamentals of GIS written specifically for archaeologists and the unique problems they face in implementing them. This volume ..."
Pacific Latin America in Prehistory The Evolution of Archaic and Formative Cultures by Michael Blake Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 1999 by Washington State University ISBN-13: 978-0-87422-166-4, ISBN: 0-87422-166-8
"Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory to 476 C.E. covers this period by giving extensive attention to a wide geographical area and a significant number of women. Events involving prehistoic cultures and social and cultural developments are consistently included. Discrete events such as battles or deaths to longer, less definite events such as the rise and fall of a culture that took place in the ancient world are cove ..."
"This volume details recent archaeological explorations of ancient religion and sacred ritual. The chapters bring multiple perspectives and differing methodological approaches to case studies representing widely divergent regions and time periods to illustrate some of the most recent methodological and theoretical appraoches to the archaeological study of ancient relgioin and ritual."
Montane Foragers Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic by Mark S. Aldenderfer 343 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-474-7, ISBN: 1-58729-474-5
"Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic Mark S. Aldenderfer. that
elevations higher than 4,000 m would have been ... In the words of the authors, "
Los escasos restos de este pequefio alero representarfan un campamento
temporal, para el aprovechamiento de recursos localizados de caza, con grupos
conectados probablemente con algun campamento-base en el piso alto puna" (
Nunez and Santoro 1988:44). The concept of "temporary camp" in ..."
"Design. Susan Stonich Understanding the factors related to destructive
ecological processes in the tropics has expanded significantly in the last decade.
Much has been learned about heterogeneity in geomorphology, soils, hydrology,
and climate and about associated vulnerability to ecological damage. Research
on cropping systems has divulged both the suitability and the liability in swidden
agricultural practices and has led to reco ..."