Beyond the Nasca lines : ancient life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert /

Beyond the Nasca lines : ancient life at La Tiza in the Peruvian Desert /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Conlee, Christina A., author.
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Description:	xiii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Huari Indians -- Peru -- Antiquities. Indians of South America -- Peru -- Antiquities. Nazca culture. Huari Indians -- Antiquities. Indians of South America -- Antiquities. Nazca culture. Nazca Lines Site (Peru) Peru. Peru -- Nazca Lines Site.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10870360

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ISBN:	9780813062020 0813062020
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book focuses on the site La Tiza, the longest continuously occupied site in the Wari Empire, and therefore provides invaluable insights into the rise and fall of the Wari state.

Table of Contents:

Ancient society in Nasca: an introduction
The dynamics of complex societies
Life in the Nasca Desert
Earliest inhabitants: the beginnings of complexity
Farmers in the desert: the development of complexity
The Nasca culture: civilization in the desert
The middle horizon: imperial entanglement and collapse
Local resurgence: the regeneration of complexity
The rise and fall of complex societies in Nasca.