Publication

2000 - University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah

Language

English

Word Count

65,000 words, Guess

Page Count

260 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCF2229 .L4313 2000

Description

"In The First South Americans, Daniele Lavallee presents all current evidence and claims for the early traces of a human presence on the continent, surveying the territory from Tierra del Fuego to the Caribbean shores of Colombia and from Brazil to Ecuador. She discusses the continent's earliest occupants, then continues to explore cultural development that include the hunters of the Holocene, the rise of horticulture and animal domestication, maritime adaptations, the Andean development of ceramics and weaving, social stratification, and finally the emergence of the first Andean civilization of Chavin.". "Lavallee shows how, little by little, people occupied this mosiac of territories over the millennia, sometimes yielding to the constraints of the environment, sometimes controlling and transforming it."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • The first South Americans: the peopling of a continent from the earliest evidence to high cultureUniversity of Utah Press2000-01-01

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