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Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World
(Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)
by Joanne Pillsbury, Dmitri Beliaev, Brigitte Kovacevich, Enrique Mayer, Charles Stanish, Alexandre Tokovinine, Kenneth G. Hirth, Richard E. Blanton, Richard L. Burger, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Lawrence S. Coben, Paul S. Goldstein, David M. Carballo, Tom D. Dillehay, David A. Freidel, Barry L. Isaac, Patricia A. Mcanany, Axel E. Nielsen, John R. Topic, Marilyn A. Masson, Deborah L. Nichols, Prof Joanne Pillsbury
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 2013 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-386-9, ISBN: 0-88402-386-9

""Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World" examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the central Andes. Civilization in each region was characterized by complex political and religious institutions, highly skilled craft production, and the long-distance movement of finished goods. Scholars have ..."

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology III
(Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan)
by Elizabeth A. Klarich, Alexei Vranich, Charles Stanish, Amanda B. Cohen, Mark S. Aldenderfer
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Univ Of Michigan Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-915703-78-4, ISBN: 0-915703-78-5

"The focus of this volume is the northern Titicaca Basin, an area once belonging to the quarter of the Inka Empire called Collasuyu. The recent explosion of archaeological projects around Lake Titicaca is reflected in the data-packed chapters of this new book. The original settlers around the lake had to adapt to living at more than 12,000 feet, but as this volume shows so well, this high-altitude environment supported a very long develo ..."

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
by Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish
330 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-79203-6, ISBN: 0-292-79203-4

"The Islands of the Sun and the Moon Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish. 1984 Cro' nica del Peru: Primera parte [1553]. Introduction by Franklin Pease G. Y. and notes by Miguel Maticorena E. Lima: Academia Nacional de la I—Iistoria and Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. 1985 Cro'nica del Peru: Segunda parte [ 1554]. Introduction by Franklin Pease G. Y. and notes by Miguel Maticorena E. Lima: Academia Nacional de la Historia and Po ..."

Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Final Results from the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka
by Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish
240 Pages, Published 2004 by Isd Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-938770-66-1, ISBN: 1-938770-66-8

"Excavations at Tikani Matthew T. Seddon and Brian S. Bauer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 CHAPTER 5. Excavations at the Site of Chucaripupata : A Tiwanaku IV and V Temple and Domestic Occupation Matthew T. Seddon ..."

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes(1st Edition)
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
by Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70890-7, ISBN: 0-292-70890-4

"The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there. In this book, Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was fo ..."

Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
by Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70889-1, ISBN: 0-292-70889-0

Ecology, Settlement and History in the Osmore Drainage, Peru
(British Archaeological Reports British Series 545(I)&(II))
by Don S. Rice, Philip R. Scarr, Charles Stanish
Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 1989 by British Archaeological Reports
ISBN-13: 978-0-86054-692-4, ISBN: 0-86054-692-6

Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-1
(Monographs)
by Charles Stanish, Amanda B. Cohen, Mark S. Aldenderfer, Amanada Cohen
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2005 by The Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931745-15-4, ISBN: 1-931745-15-3

"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 ..."

Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Final Results from the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka (Monographs)
by Brian S. Bauer, Charles Stanish
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by The Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931745-12-3, ISBN: 1-931745-12-9

"In 1994, almost 100 years after the first systematic archaeological research by Adolph Bandelier, Charles Stanish and Brian Bauer began work on the Islands of the Sun and Moon in southern Lake Titicaca. The Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka conducted a complete surface survey of the islands along with test excavations of important Inca, Tiwanaku, and pre-Tiwanaku sites. This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important ..."

Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power
(Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Craig Morris, Richard L. Burger, Contributor-Joanne Pillsbury, Ramiro Matos, Contributor-Robert Batson, Ramiro Matos Mendieta, Contributor-Gary Urton, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-Terence D'altroy, Contributor-Heather Lechtman, Contributor-Carmen Arellano, Contributor-Albert Meyers, Contributor-Charles Stanish, Jeffrey Quilter, Brian S. Bauer, Ana Maria Lorandi, Susan A. Niles, Prof Joanne Pillsbury, Carrie J. Brezine, Lucy C. Salazar, Julian I. Santillana, Rebecca Rollins Stone, Veronica Isabel Williams, Carmen Arellano, Ramiros M. Mendieta
Hardcover, 640 Pages, Published 2008 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection
ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-351-7, ISBN: 0-88402-351-6

" Download a corrected version of the map of the Lake Titicaca region. Download a corrected version of page 83. Download a corrected version of the map of the Huatanuay and Vilcanota-Urubama Valley region. Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been tr ..."

The Evolution of Human Co-operation
Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies
by Charles Stanish
Hardcover, 348 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-18055-0, ISBN: 1-107-18055-4

"How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is the key. Ritual practices encode elabora ..."

The Evolution of Human Co-operation
Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies
by Charles Stanish
Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-85171-5, ISBN: 1-316-85171-0

"... that has associated carbon dates of as early as circa 21,000 BP. Several other recently discovered or reworked sites in other areas of the country have dates at or before 15,000 BP (see Boaretto et al. 2009; Kuzmin 2006; Wu et al. 2012). If these early dates are even remotely accurate, then it is highly likely that the poorly studied regions of China will contain complex settlements millennia earlier than those in Anatolia. Thi ..."

Ancient Andean Political Economy
by Charles Stanish
207 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-76406-4, ISBN: 0-292-76406-5

"In its mostspecific historical sense, “political economy” refers toan academic discipline thatdeveloped out oflateeighteenth and early nineteenthcentury European capitalism. Although theterm was first used as early as the seventeenth century by Antoine de Montchrestien (1575–1621) andelaborated by latereconomists (Onimode 1985: 26),itis customary topointto Adam Smith's Wealth ofNationsasthe beginning ofthemodern discipline of polit ..."

The Northern Titicaca Basin Survey
Huancané-Putina (Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan: Studies in Latin American Ethnohistory & Archaeology, 11)
by Charles Stanish, Karl Lafavre, Cecilia Chávez Justo, Aimée Plourde
Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2014 by Univ Of Michigan Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-915703-84-5, ISBN: 0-915703-84-X

"This landmark book synthesizes the results of more than a decade of fieldwork in southern Peru--where Stanish and his team systematically surveyed more than 1000 square kilometers in the northern Titicaca Basin--and it details several hundred new sites in the Huancané-Putina River valley. Stanish's team recovered data on the entire sequence of occupation: from Archaic period workshops, Qaluyu and Pukara period regional centers, and Tiwa ..."

Visions of Tiwanaku
by Charles Stanish, Alexei Vranich
264 Pages, Published 2013 by Isd Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-938770-63-0, ISBN: 1-938770-63-3

"... Alexei Vranich chAptEr 1: Visions of tiWAnAKu.......................................................... .......................................................................................1 Alexei Vranich chAptEr 2: stylistic VAriAtion And sEriAtion."

World Heritage and Monuments Ser.
Lake Titicaca : Legend, Myth and Science
by Charles Stanish
224 Pages, Published 2011 by Isd Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-938770-27-2, ISBN: 1-938770-27-7

"108 Julien, Hatunqolla, 88. 109 Brian Bauer, The Development of the Inca State ( Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992). 110 Brian S. Bauer, Mary Futrell, Lisa Cipolla, R. Alan Covey, and Joshua Terry, “Excavations at Inca Sites on the Island ..."

Lake Titicaca
Legend, Myth and Science (WORLD HERITAGE AND MONUMENT SERIES)
by Charles Stanish, Peg Goldstein
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by The Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-931745-82-6, ISBN: 1-931745-82-X

"Lake Titicaca and the vast region surrounding this deep body of water contain mysteries that we are just beginning to unravel. The area surrounding the world's highest navigable lake was home to some of the greatest civilizations in the ancient world. These civilizations were created by the ancestors of the Aymara and Quechua peoples who continue to live and work in Peru and Bolivia along the shores of this ancient body of water. This l ..."

Ancient Andean Political Economy(Reprint)
(Paperback)
by Charles Stanish
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72945-2, ISBN: 0-292-72945-6

"Berkeley: Ibero-Americana, University of California PresS. Diez de San Miguel, Garci. See Garci Diez de San Miguel Dillehay, Tom I976 "Competition and Cooperation in a Prehispanic Multi-Ethnic System in the Central Andes." Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin. 1977 "Relaciones prehispánicas costa-sierra en el valle de Chillon." El Hombre y La Cultura Andina 2 (3). Lima: III Congreso Peruano. Ramiro Matos, ed. Earle, Timothy, ..."

The Evolution of Leadership(1st Edition)
Transitions in Decision Making from Small-Scale to Middle-Range Societies (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
by Kevin J. Vaughn, John Kantner, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Jeanne E. Arnold, Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brenda J. Bowser, John Q. Patton, Timothy R. Pauketat, Charles Stanish
Paperback, 366 Pages, Published 2010 by School For Advanced Research Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-934691-13-7, ISBN: 1-934691-13-5

"Leaders make decisions that have significant impacts on the lives of others. They have the ability to influence events and impact the evolutionary trajectories of societies. Leaders exist in all societies, ranging from smaller-scale heads of households to larger-scale elected governing bodies to dictators with vast coercive powers at their disposal. Today, all of us are familiar with and see (and feel) the influence of leaders. Given th ..."

Agricultural Strategies
by Joyce Marcus, Charles Stanish
440 Pages, Published 2006 by Isd Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-938770-34-0, ISBN: 1-938770-34-X

"I also acknowledge my colleagues Jason Yaeger, Peter Stahl, Kay Candler, and William Denevan for discussion and editorial comments about the manuscript. A shorter, slightly different version of this chapter was presented in the symposium ..."