An archaeology of Ancash : stones, ruins and communities in ancient Peru /
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| Author / Creator: | Lau, George F., 1969- author. |
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |
| Description: | xv, 257 pages, 32 numbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10782131 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of plates
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Key propositions
- Previous scholarship on Andean stonework
- Stone as archaeological culture: Chronology, function, materialisation
- Objects of cult and landscape
- Stone and lithicity: Materials and making
- Stone work as visual culture, as art
- Art and communities
- Organisation of the book
- 2. A land of stone
- Life, land and water in Ancash
- Ancash geology
- Mobilising and modifying stone
- Quarrying
- Transport
- Reduction and fitting
- Work and community in the Andes
- Conclusion
- 3. Constructing collectives: Early stone monuments in Ancash
- Building the body politic: The Kotosh Religious Tradition
- Site in focus: La Galgada
- Formative coastal developments in Ancash
- Early monuments along the north-central coast
- Site in focus: Caral
- Precocious developments in the Casma Valley
- Site in focus: Cerro Sechín
- Social organisation and monumental architecture
- Conclusion
- 4. Of monsters and monuments in the Chavín period
- Chavín de Huántar
- Objects in focus: Chavín's stone pantheon
- What was Chavín? Chavín influence in Ancash
- Chavín in highland Ancash
- Object in focus: The Yauya Stela
- Casma and Nepeña
- Conclusion
- 5. 'Children of the stones': Lithicity in the Recuay tradition
- Ancash after Chavín
- Huarás sites
- Rise of Recuay material culture
- Housing ancestors
- 'Children of the stones': Ancestral replication and agency
- Site in focus: Jancu
- Site in focus: Pashash
- Object in focus: Pashash great divinity
- Site in focus: Chinchawas
- Object in focus: Warrior bundle effigy
- Site in focus: Yayno
- Conclusion
- 6. An ancient Andean game
- Amerindian sociality and the culture of opposition
- Andean board games: Comparative perspectives and evidence
- Function of Andean tableros: Forms, materiality and contexts
- Confrontation, complementarity and ranking
- Conclusion
- 7. States and stones: Wari and Inka in Ancash
- States and stones, round 1: Wari
- Wari entanglements in Ancash
- Mausolca and the new materiality
- Tomb spaces and ancestral optics
- Site in focus: Wilkawaín
- Site in focus: Honcopampa
- Between states: The Late Intermediate Period
- Standing stones: Huaneas
- States and stones, round 2: Inka
- The work of stone in Inka culture
- Inka in Ancash
- Site in focus: Huánuco Pampa
- Site in focus: Yayno
- Site in focus: Cajarumi
- Conclusion
- 8. Old presences, new relevances
- I. New places for old stones
- Pollasca: Heartland of sculptures
- Museum in focus: Cabanas archaeological museum
- Around Cabana
- Huandoval
- II. Huaraz and the Museo Arqueológico de Ancash
- Site in focus: Parque Lítico
- Site in focus: Pomakayán
- III. Making and commodifying the past
- Souvenirs and sculptural production in Peru
- Rumichuco - 'place of stone'
- Soaps tone miniatures
- Conclusion
- 9. Concluding thoughts
- Appendix
- Glossary
- References
- Index