Tom Dillehay, Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Cultureand Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and Professor Extraordinaire and Honorary Doctorate at the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities around the world, including the Universidad de Chile, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cambridge University, University of Tokyo, University of Chicago, among others. Professor Dillehay has published twenty-two books and more than two hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is a leading South American archaeologist recognized for his groundbreaking and highly interdisciplinary research and has served as a consultant to several governments and academic institutions in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Estado as a Proto-State Polity.- Chapter 3: The Spanish-Mapuche World of the Purén and Lumaco Valley in the 16th and 17th Centuries.- Chapter 4: Data, Methods and Background.- Chapter 5: Archaeological Material Manifestations.- Chapter 6: Environmental Responses to Climatic and Cultural Changes over the last 26,000 years.- Chapter 7: The Archaeological Record.- Chapter 8: Archaeobotanical Remains.- Chapter 9: Ceramics and Other Artifacts.- Chapter 10: Site Distribution and Settlement Pattern.- Chapter 11: The Kuel and Ceremonial Fields as Places of Patriotism and Patriarchy.

Tom Dillehay, Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Cultureand Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and Professor Extraordinaire and Honorary Doctorate at the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities around the world, including the Universidad de Chile, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cambridge University, University of Tokyo, University of Chicago, among others. Professor Dillehay has published twenty-two books and more than two hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is a leading South American archaeologist recognized for his groundbreaking and highly interdisciplinary research and has served as a consultant to several governments and academic institutions in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Estado as a Proto-State Polity.- Chapter 3: The Spanish-Mapuche World of the Purén and Lumaco Valley in the 16th and 17th Centuries.- Chapter 4: Data, Methods and Background.- Chapter 5: Archaeological Material Manifestations.- Chapter 6: Environmental Responses to Climatic and Cultural Changes over the last 26,000 years.- Chapter 7: The Archaeological Record.- Chapter 8: Archaeobotanical Remains.- Chapter 9: Ceramics and Other Artifacts.- Chapter 10: Site Distribution and Settlement Pattern.- Chapter 11: The Kuel and Ceremonial Fields as Places of Patriotism and Patriarchy.