Mark Aldenderfer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective. He is the author of Montane Foragers: Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic (1998) and co-edited, with Luis Flores Blanco, "El período Arcaico en los Andes Sur-centrales: Tradiciones culturales e innovaciones tecnológicas," Chungara:43 Numero Especial 1: 333-550 (2011).Marcela Sepúlveda is a research associate at Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile and UMR8096 ArchAm (CNRS-Paris 1) in France. She is co-editor, with Rémy Chapoulie, Nino del Solar, and Verónique Wright, of Arqueometría: Estudios Analíticos en Arqueología (2016). She studies rock art, the technology of color and pigment mining in the Atacama Desert and other regions of the Andes. Eduardo Góes Neves is Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Museum ofArchaeology and Ethnology of University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of Arqueologia da Amazônia (2006) and Sob os Tempos do Equinócio: 8.000 Anos de História na Amazônia Central (2022) and co-edited, with Colin McEwan and Cristiana Barreto, Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil (2001).

• Introduction Chapter 1 South American archaeology: Where are we?Marcela Sepúlveda, Mark Aldenderfer and Eduardo Neves Histories, theoretical, and methodological approaches in South American archaeology Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches: What's New?Mark Aldenderfer Chapter 3 The Professionalization of Archaeology and the Study of the Past: Brazil, Colombia, and VenezuelaEduardo Herrera Malatesta and J. Roberto Pellini Chapter 4 National archaeologies and the study of the past II: Peru and the Southern Cone Alejandro Haber and Henry Tantaleán Chapter 5 The impact of paleoclimate research and historical ecological studies on South American archaeologyAntonio Maldonado and Umberto Lombardo Chapter 6 Zooarchaeology: New approaches, debates, and contributions to South American archaeologyGuillermo Luis Mengoni Goñalons and Nicolas Goepfert Chapter 7 Archaeobotany: The impact of microfossil analyses in in South American archaeological contexts Pilar Babot and Jennifer Watling Chapter 8 Bioarchaeology: New insights for South American archaeologyChristina M. Torres and Mark Hubbe Chapter 9 Molecular anthropology: Indigenous peoples and the South American pastJohn Lindo and André Menezes Strauss Chapter 10 Archaeometry in South AmericaMichael D. Glascock and Martin Giesso Chapter 11 Geoarchaeology and its contribution to the South American pastXimena S. Villagran and Cristian M. Favier Dubois Chapter 12 Language Lessons on the Prehistory of South AmericaPaul Heggarty and Patience Epps Chapter 13 The historical archaeology of South America: An overviewDiogo M. Costa and Brendan J.M. Weaver Chapter 14 Ethnoarchaeology in South America: development and perspectivesGustavo G. Politis and Fabiola Silva Chapter 15 Indigenous perspectives on the South American pastPatricia Ayala and Mariana Petry Cabral Chapter 16 National archaeological heritage policies and legislationMaria Luz Endere and Solsiré Cusicanqui Marsano Chapter 17 Women in South American ArchaeologyAlejandra Korstanje and Sonia Archila Initial entries into South America Chapter 18 Pleistocene settlement: First settlers in South AmericaAstolfo G. M. Araujo and José M. Capriles Chapter 19 Early peopling along the Pacific-Andean corridor in western South AmericaCésar Méndez Chapter 20 First people in a new world: Peopling eastern South America in the Pleistocene-Holocene transitionAdriana Schmidt, Lucas Bueno, and Gustavo Wagner Chapter 21 Megafaunal extinctions in South AmericaFabiana Maria Martín and Francisco Juan Prevosti Occupational variability in the Early Holocene Chapter 22 Early lithic technology in South AmericaRafael Suárez Chapter 23 Maritime peoples of the western AndesAna Cecilia Mauricio Chapter 24 Highland foragers of the western AndesRandall Haas Chapter 25 The Archaic in the north-central Chilean Andes: Between the ocean and the mountainsLuis Cornejo and Daniela Osorio Chapter 26 Early Amazonian Economies and their Impacts for TodayClaide de paula Moraes and Anne Rapp Py-Daniel Chapter 27 Techno-cultural diversities in the Early Holocene: Brazilian hinterlands and the Bolivian ChacoSibeli Viana and Sirlei Hoeltz Chapter 28 Inland and maritime adaptations in the Southern ConeRamiro Barberena, Marianne Christensen, Dominique Legoupil and Luciano Prates Chapter 29 The origins of plant management in the South American NeotropicsFrancisco Javier Aceituno and Nicolás Loaiza Chapter 30 Animal management and domestication, Andean and Amazonian contextsHugo Yacobaccio and Gabriela Prestes-Carneiro Trajectories of inequality: formation, variability, and transformations Chapter 31 The Development of village life in northwestern South AmericaJames A. Zeidler Chapter 32 Early ceremonial and monumental architecture in the central AndesRafael Vega Centeno and Sara Lafosse Chapter 33 The Chavín Phenomenon and its Regional ManifestationDaniel A. Contreras Chapter 34 What monumental architecture tells us about occupation and territorial organization in precolonial Peru: The Paracas caseAïcha Bachir Bacha Chapter 35 The Rise of Highland Andean Societies in the Lake Titicaca BasinElizabeth Klarich Chapter 36 Exchanges and early complexity in the Southern Andes: Ethnogenesis, interculturality and the lived-world (first millennium BC) Francisco Gallardo Ibáñez Chapter 37 Sedentarism, crops and mobility: Variability in the Formative process in the western AndesLorena Sanhueza and Mauricio Uribe Chapter 38 Meaningful animals and construction of seascapes in southern BrasilDaniela Klokler Chapter 39 Early Ceramicists of Amazonia, Orinoquia, and the Guianas: The Modelled-Incised MatrixHelena Pinto Lima and Manuel Arroyo-Kalin Chapter 40 Continuity and change in the societies of the Southern Cone: Mobility and circulation in the Northwestern and Pampean regions of Argentina (2500 to 500 years BP)Sara López Campeny and Mónica Alejandra Berón Chapter 41 Early ceramics in South America: Technology and usesIsabelle Druc and Francisco Pugliese Chapter 42 Before the embroidery: iconography and design of Paracas Tradition textilesAnn Hudson Peters Chapter 43 Early evidence of trade across the Andes between the Pacific and the AmazonFrancisco Valdez and Quirino Olivera Núñez Political dynamics in the first and second millennia CE Chapter 44 Inequality, diversity, and complexity in Colombian chiefdomsAndrea M. Cuéllar Chapter 45 The Archaeology of the mighty Orinoco in the 21st C: A SynthesisNatalia Lozada-Mendieta and José R. Oliver Chapter 46 The Nasca CultureChristina A. Conlee Chapter 47 Re-Evaluating Archaeological Discourses about the Moche of Northern PeruLuis A. Muro Ynoñán and Lisa Trever Chapter 48 Wari: Influence from highland to coastFrancesca Fernandini Chapter 49 Tiwanaku in the Titicaca Basin and its expansion in the south-central Andean regionClaudia Rivera-Casanovas and Carolina Agüero Chapter 50 Ritual violence at the foundation of Chimu sociopolitical control during the Late Intermediate period in the North Coast of PeruGabriel Prieto Chapter 51 The Late Intermediate (1100-1450 CE) period in the Bolivian Andes and northern Chile: From center-periphery models to local developmentsJuan Villanueva Chapter 52 Sociopolitical reorganization in the Peruvian Andes after the Wari and Tiwanaku collapseHugo Ikehara Chapter 53 The Inca Empire and Its strategic expansionTamara L. Bray Chapter 54 The Upper AmazonStéphen Rostain Chapter 55 Monumental variability in southwestern AmazoniaCarla Jaimes Betancourt and Heiko Prümers Chapter 56 The Lower Amazon before the European invasionCristiana Barreto, Helena Pinto Lima, and Bruno Barreto Chapter 57 The archaeology of the La Plata basinMariano Bonomo and Rafael Guedes Milheira Chapter 58 Language dispersals and archaeological patterns in the tropical lowlandsFernando Ozorio Almeida and Lorena Gomes García Chapter 59 Local developments in northwestern ArgentinaJavier Nastri and Florencia Ávila Chapter 60 Pre-Hispanic settlement and political dynamics in Central and South-Central Chile in the second millennia ADFernanda Falabella and Leonor Adán Chapter 61 The development and variability of agriculture in South AmericaMyrtle P. Shock and Maria C. Bruno Chapter 62 Andean pastoralism and caravansAxel E. Nielsen and Nicolas Tripcevich Chapter 63 Pre-Columbian navigation along the Pacific shore of the Atacama DesertBenjamín Ballester Chapter 64 Mining and its economic implications for Andean societiesMichelle Young Chapter 65 Andinoamerican Metallurgical Technology and its VariabilityColleen Zori Chapter 66 Rock art in South America: new challenges, approaches, and discoveries at the beginning of the 21st century.Marcela Sepúlveda, Edithe Pereia, and Johnny Isla Chapter 67 Funerary practices in complex Andean societiesPeter Eeckhout Chapter 68 Warfare in the central AndesElizabeth Arkush Chapter 69 Pilgrimages, oracles, and Andean sanctuariesCésar Astuhuamán The archaeology of the colonial occupation, state formation, and industrial tines Chapter 70 Mission archaeologyScotti M. Norman Chapter 71 Archaeology of slavery in South AmericaLuis Symanski and Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros Chapter 72 The archaeology of extractive industries in early colonial South AmericaNoa Corcoran-Tadd Chapter 73 Native depopulation, health, and disease in South America. Consequences and legacies of colonialismMelissa S. Murphy and Alexander Garcia-Putnam Chapter 74 Industrial times in South American archaeologyNicolás C. Ciarlo and Francisco Rivera Contemporary issues in South American archaeology Chapter 75 The archaeology of political repressionAndres Zarankin, José López Mazz, and Pedro Fermín Maguire Chapter 76 Public archaeology in South AmericaMarcia Bezerra de Almeida and Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky Chapter 77 Roles and challenges of the museums in South America: A bird's eye viewDenise Pozzi-Escot and Alejandra Saladino

Mark Aldenderfer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective. He is the author of Montane Foragers: Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic (1998) and co-edited, with Luis Flores Blanco, "El período Arcaico en los Andes Sur-centrales: Tradiciones culturales e innovaciones tecnológicas," Chungara:43 Numero Especial 1: 333-550 (2011).Marcela Sepúlveda is a research associate at Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile and UMR8096 ArchAm (CNRS-Paris 1) in France. She is co-editor, with Rémy Chapoulie, Nino del Solar, and Verónique Wright, of Arqueometría: Estudios Analíticos en Arqueología (2016). She studies rock art, the technology of color and pigment mining in the Atacama Desert and other regions of the Andes. Eduardo Góes Neves is Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Museum ofArchaeology and Ethnology of University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of Arqueologia da Amazônia (2006) and Sob os Tempos do Equinócio: 8.000 Anos de História na Amazônia Central (2022) and co-edited, with Colin McEwan and Cristiana Barreto, Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil (2001).

• Introduction Chapter 1 South American archaeology: Where are we?Marcela Sepúlveda, Mark Aldenderfer and Eduardo Neves Histories, theoretical, and methodological approaches in South American archaeology Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches: What's New?Mark Aldenderfer Chapter 3 The Professionalization of Archaeology and the Study of the Past: Brazil, Colombia, and VenezuelaEduardo Herrera Malatesta and J. Roberto Pellini Chapter 4 National archaeologies and the study of the past II: Peru and the Southern Cone Alejandro Haber and Henry Tantaleán Chapter 5 The impact of paleoclimate research and historical ecological studies on South American archaeologyAntonio Maldonado and Umberto Lombardo Chapter 6 Zooarchaeology: New approaches, debates, and contributions to South American archaeologyGuillermo Luis Mengoni Goñalons and Nicolas Goepfert Chapter 7 Archaeobotany: The impact of microfossil analyses in in South American archaeological contexts Pilar Babot and Jennifer Watling Chapter 8 Bioarchaeology: New insights for South American archaeologyChristina M. Torres and Mark Hubbe Chapter 9 Molecular anthropology: Indigenous peoples and the South American pastJohn Lindo and André Menezes Strauss Chapter 10 Archaeometry in South AmericaMichael D. Glascock and Martin Giesso Chapter 11 Geoarchaeology and its contribution to the South American pastXimena S. Villagran and Cristian M. Favier Dubois Chapter 12 Language Lessons on the Prehistory of South AmericaPaul Heggarty and Patience Epps Chapter 13 The historical archaeology of South America: An overviewDiogo M. Costa and Brendan J.M. Weaver Chapter 14 Ethnoarchaeology in South America: development and perspectivesGustavo G. Politis and Fabiola Silva Chapter 15 Indigenous perspectives on the South American pastPatricia Ayala and Mariana Petry Cabral Chapter 16 National archaeological heritage policies and legislationMaria Luz Endere and Solsiré Cusicanqui Marsano Chapter 17 Women in South American ArchaeologyAlejandra Korstanje and Sonia Archila Initial entries into South America Chapter 18 Pleistocene settlement: First settlers in South AmericaAstolfo G. M. Araujo and José M. Capriles Chapter 19 Early peopling along the Pacific-Andean corridor in western South AmericaCésar Méndez Chapter 20 First people in a new world: Peopling eastern South America in the Pleistocene-Holocene transitionAdriana Schmidt, Lucas Bueno, and Gustavo Wagner Chapter 21 Megafaunal extinctions in South AmericaFabiana Maria Martín and Francisco Juan Prevosti Occupational variability in the Early Holocene Chapter 22 Early lithic technology in South AmericaRafael Suárez Chapter 23 Maritime peoples of the western AndesAna Cecilia Mauricio Chapter 24 Highland foragers of the western AndesRandall Haas Chapter 25 The Archaic in the north-central Chilean Andes: Between the ocean and the mountainsLuis Cornejo and Daniela Osorio Chapter 26 Early Amazonian Economies and their Impacts for TodayClaide de paula Moraes and Anne Rapp Py-Daniel Chapter 27 Techno-cultural diversities in the Early Holocene: Brazilian hinterlands and the Bolivian ChacoSibeli Viana and Sirlei Hoeltz Chapter 28 Inland and maritime adaptations in the Southern ConeRamiro Barberena, Marianne Christensen, Dominique Legoupil and Luciano Prates Chapter 29 The origins of plant management in the South American NeotropicsFrancisco Javier Aceituno and Nicolás Loaiza Chapter 30 Animal management and domestication, Andean and Amazonian contextsHugo Yacobaccio and Gabriela Prestes-Carneiro Trajectories of inequality: formation, variability, and transformations Chapter 31 The Development of village life in northwestern South AmericaJames A. Zeidler Chapter 32 Early ceremonial and monumental architecture in the central AndesRafael Vega Centeno and Sara Lafosse Chapter 33 The Chavín Phenomenon and its Regional ManifestationDaniel A. Contreras Chapter 34 What monumental architecture tells us about occupation and territorial organization in precolonial Peru: The Paracas caseAïcha Bachir Bacha Chapter 35 The Rise of Highland Andean Societies in the Lake Titicaca BasinElizabeth Klarich Chapter 36 Exchanges and early complexity in the Southern Andes: Ethnogenesis, interculturality and the lived-world (first millennium BC) Francisco Gallardo Ibáñez Chapter 37 Sedentarism, crops and mobility: Variability in the Formative process in the western AndesLorena Sanhueza and Mauricio Uribe Chapter 38 Meaningful animals and construction of seascapes in southern BrasilDaniela Klokler Chapter 39 Early Ceramicists of Amazonia, Orinoquia, and the Guianas: The Modelled-Incised MatrixHelena Pinto Lima and Manuel Arroyo-Kalin Chapter 40 Continuity and change in the societies of the Southern Cone: Mobility and circulation in the Northwestern and Pampean regions of Argentina (2500 to 500 years BP)Sara López Campeny and Mónica Alejandra Berón Chapter 41 Early ceramics in South America: Technology and usesIsabelle Druc and Francisco Pugliese Chapter 42 Before the embroidery: iconography and design of Paracas Tradition textilesAnn Hudson Peters Chapter 43 Early evidence of trade across the Andes between the Pacific and the AmazonFrancisco Valdez and Quirino Olivera Núñez Political dynamics in the first and second millennia CE Chapter 44 Inequality, diversity, and complexity in Colombian chiefdomsAndrea M. Cuéllar Chapter 45 The Archaeology of the mighty Orinoco in the 21st C: A SynthesisNatalia Lozada-Mendieta and José R. Oliver Chapter 46 The Nasca CultureChristina A. Conlee Chapter 47 Re-Evaluating Archaeological Discourses about the Moche of Northern PeruLuis A. Muro Ynoñán and Lisa Trever Chapter 48 Wari: Influence from highland to coastFrancesca Fernandini Chapter 49 Tiwanaku in the Titicaca Basin and its expansion in the south-central Andean regionClaudia Rivera-Casanovas and Carolina Agüero Chapter 50 Ritual violence at the foundation of Chimu sociopolitical control during the Late Intermediate period in the North Coast of PeruGabriel Prieto Chapter 51 The Late Intermediate (1100-1450 CE) period in the Bolivian Andes and northern Chile: From center-periphery models to local developmentsJuan Villanueva Chapter 52 Sociopolitical reorganization in the Peruvian Andes after the Wari and Tiwanaku collapseHugo Ikehara Chapter 53 The Inca Empire and Its strategic expansionTamara L. Bray Chapter 54 The Upper AmazonStéphen Rostain Chapter 55 Monumental variability in southwestern AmazoniaCarla Jaimes Betancourt and Heiko Prümers Chapter 56 The Lower Amazon before the European invasionCristiana Barreto, Helena Pinto Lima, and Bruno Barreto Chapter 57 The archaeology of the La Plata basinMariano Bonomo and Rafael Guedes Milheira Chapter 58 Language dispersals and archaeological patterns in the tropical lowlandsFernando Ozorio Almeida and Lorena Gomes García Chapter 59 Local developments in northwestern ArgentinaJavier Nastri and Florencia Ávila Chapter 60 Pre-Hispanic settlement and political dynamics in Central and South-Central Chile in the second millennia ADFernanda Falabella and Leonor Adán Chapter 61 The development and variability of agriculture in South AmericaMyrtle P. Shock and Maria C. Bruno Chapter 62 Andean pastoralism and caravansAxel E. Nielsen and Nicolas Tripcevich Chapter 63 Pre-Columbian navigation along the Pacific shore of the Atacama DesertBenjamín Ballester Chapter 64 Mining and its economic implications for Andean societiesMichelle Young Chapter 65 Andinoamerican Metallurgical Technology and its VariabilityColleen Zori Chapter 66 Rock art in South America: new challenges, approaches, and discoveries at the beginning of the 21st century.Marcela Sepúlveda, Edithe Pereia, and Johnny Isla Chapter 67 Funerary practices in complex Andean societiesPeter Eeckhout Chapter 68 Warfare in the central AndesElizabeth Arkush Chapter 69 Pilgrimages, oracles, and Andean sanctuariesCésar Astuhuamán The archaeology of the colonial occupation, state formation, and industrial tines Chapter 70 Mission archaeologyScotti M. Norman Chapter 71 Archaeology of slavery in South AmericaLuis Symanski and Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros Chapter 72 The archaeology of extractive industries in early colonial South AmericaNoa Corcoran-Tadd Chapter 73 Native depopulation, health, and disease in South America. Consequences and legacies of colonialismMelissa S. Murphy and Alexander Garcia-Putnam Chapter 74 Industrial times in South American archaeologyNicolás C. Ciarlo and Francisco Rivera Contemporary issues in South American archaeology Chapter 75 The archaeology of political repressionAndres Zarankin, José López Mazz, and Pedro Fermín Maguire Chapter 76 Public archaeology in South AmericaMarcia Bezerra de Almeida and Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky Chapter 77 Roles and challenges of the museums in South America: A bird's eye viewDenise Pozzi-Escot and Alejandra Saladino

Mark Aldenderfer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective. He is the author of Montane Foragers: Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic (1998) and co-edited, with Luis Flores Blanco, "El período Arcaico en los Andes Sur-centrales: Tradiciones culturales e innovaciones tecnológicas," Chungara:43 Numero Especial 1: 333-550 (2011).Marcela Sepúlveda is a research associate at Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile and UMR8096 ArchAm (CNRS-Paris 1) in France. She is co-editor, with Rémy Chapoulie, Nino del Solar, and Verónique Wright, of Arqueometría: Estudios Analíticos en Arqueología (2016). She studies rock art, the technology of color and pigment mining in the Atacama Desert and other regions of the Andes. Eduardo Góes Neves is Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Museum ofArchaeology and Ethnology of University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of Arqueologia da Amazônia (2006) and Sob os Tempos do Equinócio: 8.000 Anos de História na Amazônia Central (2022) and co-edited, with Colin McEwan and Cristiana Barreto, Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil (2001).

• Introduction Chapter 1 South American archaeology: Where are we?Marcela Sepúlveda, Mark Aldenderfer and Eduardo Neves Histories, theoretical, and methodological approaches in South American archaeology Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches: What's New?Mark Aldenderfer Chapter 3 The Professionalization of Archaeology and the Study of the Past: Brazil, Colombia, and VenezuelaEduardo Herrera Malatesta and J. Roberto Pellini Chapter 4 National archaeologies and the study of the past II: Peru and the Southern Cone Alejandro Haber and Henry Tantaleán Chapter 5 The impact of paleoclimate research and historical ecological studies on South American archaeologyAntonio Maldonado and Umberto Lombardo Chapter 6 Zooarchaeology: New approaches, debates, and contributions to South American archaeologyGuillermo Luis Mengoni Goñalons and Nicolas Goepfert Chapter 7 Archaeobotany: The impact of microfossil analyses in in South American archaeological contexts Pilar Babot and Jennifer Watling Chapter 8 Bioarchaeology: New insights for South American archaeologyChristina M. Torres and Mark Hubbe Chapter 9 Molecular anthropology: Indigenous peoples and the South American pastJohn Lindo and André Menezes Strauss Chapter 10 Archaeometry in South AmericaMichael D. Glascock and Martin Giesso Chapter 11 Geoarchaeology and its contribution to the South American pastXimena S. Villagran and Cristian M. Favier Dubois Chapter 12 Language Lessons on the Prehistory of South AmericaPaul Heggarty and Patience Epps Chapter 13 The historical archaeology of South America: An overviewDiogo M. Costa and Brendan J.M. Weaver Chapter 14 Ethnoarchaeology in South America: development and perspectivesGustavo G. Politis and Fabiola Silva Chapter 15 Indigenous perspectives on the South American pastPatricia Ayala and Mariana Petry Cabral Chapter 16 National archaeological heritage policies and legislationMaria Luz Endere and Solsiré Cusicanqui Marsano Chapter 17 Women in South American ArchaeologyAlejandra Korstanje and Sonia Archila Initial entries into South America Chapter 18 Pleistocene settlement: First settlers in South AmericaAstolfo G. M. Araujo and José M. Capriles Chapter 19 Early peopling along the Pacific-Andean corridor in western South AmericaCésar Méndez Chapter 20 First people in a new world: Peopling eastern South America in the Pleistocene-Holocene transitionAdriana Schmidt, Lucas Bueno, and Gustavo Wagner Chapter 21 Megafaunal extinctions in South AmericaFabiana Maria Martín and Francisco Juan Prevosti Occupational variability in the Early Holocene Chapter 22 Early lithic technology in South AmericaRafael Suárez Chapter 23 Maritime peoples of the western AndesAna Cecilia Mauricio Chapter 24 Highland foragers of the western AndesRandall Haas Chapter 25 The Archaic in the north-central Chilean Andes: Between the ocean and the mountainsLuis Cornejo and Daniela Osorio Chapter 26 Early Amazonian Economies and their Impacts for TodayClaide de paula Moraes and Anne Rapp Py-Daniel Chapter 27 Techno-cultural diversities in the Early Holocene: Brazilian hinterlands and the Bolivian ChacoSibeli Viana and Sirlei Hoeltz Chapter 28 Inland and maritime adaptations in the Southern ConeRamiro Barberena, Marianne Christensen, Dominique Legoupil and Luciano Prates Chapter 29 The origins of plant management in the South American NeotropicsFrancisco Javier Aceituno and Nicolás Loaiza Chapter 30 Animal management and domestication, Andean and Amazonian contextsHugo Yacobaccio and Gabriela Prestes-Carneiro Trajectories of inequality: formation, variability, and transformations Chapter 31 The Development of village life in northwestern South AmericaJames A. Zeidler Chapter 32 Early ceremonial and monumental architecture in the central AndesRafael Vega Centeno and Sara Lafosse Chapter 33 The Chavín Phenomenon and its Regional ManifestationDaniel A. Contreras Chapter 34 What monumental architecture tells us about occupation and territorial organization in precolonial Peru: The Paracas caseAïcha Bachir Bacha Chapter 35 The Rise of Highland Andean Societies in the Lake Titicaca BasinElizabeth Klarich Chapter 36 Exchanges and early complexity in the Southern Andes: Ethnogenesis, interculturality and the lived-world (first millennium BC) Francisco Gallardo Ibáñez Chapter 37 Sedentarism, crops and mobility: Variability in the Formative process in the western AndesLorena Sanhueza and Mauricio Uribe Chapter 38 Meaningful animals and construction of seascapes in southern BrasilDaniela Klokler Chapter 39 Early Ceramicists of Amazonia, Orinoquia, and the Guianas: The Modelled-Incised MatrixHelena Pinto Lima and Manuel Arroyo-Kalin Chapter 40 Continuity and change in the societies of the Southern Cone: Mobility and circulation in the Northwestern and Pampean regions of Argentina (2500 to 500 years BP)Sara López Campeny and Mónica Alejandra Berón Chapter 41 Early ceramics in South America: Technology and usesIsabelle Druc and Francisco Pugliese Chapter 42 Before the embroidery: iconography and design of Paracas Tradition textilesAnn Hudson Peters Chapter 43 Early evidence of trade across the Andes between the Pacific and the AmazonFrancisco Valdez and Quirino Olivera Núñez Political dynamics in the first and second millennia CE Chapter 44 Inequality, diversity, and complexity in Colombian chiefdomsAndrea M. Cuéllar Chapter 45 The Archaeology of the mighty Orinoco in the 21st C: A SynthesisNatalia Lozada-Mendieta and José R. Oliver Chapter 46 The Nasca CultureChristina A. Conlee Chapter 47 Re-Evaluating Archaeological Discourses about the Moche of Northern PeruLuis A. Muro Ynoñán and Lisa Trever Chapter 48 Wari: Influence from highland to coastFrancesca Fernandini Chapter 49 Tiwanaku in the Titicaca Basin and its expansion in the south-central Andean regionClaudia Rivera-Casanovas and Carolina Agüero Chapter 50 Ritual violence at the foundation of Chimu sociopolitical control during the Late Intermediate period in the North Coast of PeruGabriel Prieto Chapter 51 The Late Intermediate (1100-1450 CE) period in the Bolivian Andes and northern Chile: From center-periphery models to local developmentsJuan Villanueva Chapter 52 Sociopolitical reorganization in the Peruvian Andes after the Wari and Tiwanaku collapseHugo Ikehara Chapter 53 The Inca Empire and Its strategic expansionTamara L. Bray Chapter 54 The Upper AmazonStéphen Rostain Chapter 55 Monumental variability in southwestern AmazoniaCarla Jaimes Betancourt and Heiko Prümers Chapter 56 The Lower Amazon before the European invasionCristiana Barreto, Helena Pinto Lima, and Bruno Barreto Chapter 57 The archaeology of the La Plata basinMariano Bonomo and Rafael Guedes Milheira Chapter 58 Language dispersals and archaeological patterns in the tropical lowlandsFernando Ozorio Almeida and Lorena Gomes García Chapter 59 Local developments in northwestern ArgentinaJavier Nastri and Florencia Ávila Chapter 60 Pre-Hispanic settlement and political dynamics in Central and South-Central Chile in the second millennia ADFernanda Falabella and Leonor Adán Chapter 61 The development and variability of agriculture in South AmericaMyrtle P. Shock and Maria C. Bruno Chapter 62 Andean pastoralism and caravansAxel E. Nielsen and Nicolas Tripcevich Chapter 63 Pre-Columbian navigation along the Pacific shore of the Atacama DesertBenjamín Ballester Chapter 64 Mining and its economic implications for Andean societiesMichelle Young Chapter 65 Andinoamerican Metallurgical Technology and its VariabilityColleen Zori Chapter 66 Rock art in South America: new challenges, approaches, and discoveries at the beginning of the 21st century.Marcela Sepúlveda, Edithe Pereia, and Johnny Isla Chapter 67 Funerary practices in complex Andean societiesPeter Eeckhout Chapter 68 Warfare in the central AndesElizabeth Arkush Chapter 69 Pilgrimages, oracles, and Andean sanctuariesCésar Astuhuamán The archaeology of the colonial occupation, state formation, and industrial tines Chapter 70 Mission archaeologyScotti M. Norman Chapter 71 Archaeology of slavery in South AmericaLuis Symanski and Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros Chapter 72 The archaeology of extractive industries in early colonial South AmericaNoa Corcoran-Tadd Chapter 73 Native depopulation, health, and disease in South America. Consequences and legacies of colonialismMelissa S. Murphy and Alexander Garcia-Putnam Chapter 74 Industrial times in South American archaeologyNicolás C. Ciarlo and Francisco Rivera Contemporary issues in South American archaeology Chapter 75 The archaeology of political repressionAndres Zarankin, José López Mazz, and Pedro Fermín Maguire Chapter 76 Public archaeology in South AmericaMarcia Bezerra de Almeida and Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky Chapter 77 Roles and challenges of the museums in South America: A bird's eye viewDenise Pozzi-Escot and Alejandra Saladino