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ISBN: | 9781136544453 1136544453 0415330440 9780415330442 9781315017792 1315017792 9781136544590 1136544593 9781136544521 1136544526 9781138862005 1138862002
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Notes: | Originally published: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-259) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | This book traces the history and ecology of the Aymaras and the Quechuas: the highland peoples of the Central Andes, who formed the nucleus of the great Inca Empire which extended for two thousand miles along the Pacific coast to the fringes of the tropical interior. In twenty millennia the Indians of the Andes had had no cultural contacts with the Old World yet they had already passed independently through stages of development usually associated with the Neolithic Age and had achieved a degree of technical and artistic excellence. In four centuries of contact there has of course been appre.
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Other form: | Print version: Osborne, Harold, 1905-1987. Indians of the Andes 0415330440
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