Peru (Geographic Keyword)

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Peru. Ancient Peoples and Places (1957)

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. H. S. Bushnell.

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Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (1877)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ephraim George Squier.

"Peru: Incidents and Exploration in the Land of the Incas" is E. George Squier's detailed account of his extensive travels in Peru and his investigation of many large archaeological sites during his appointment as US Commissioner to Peru in the mid-1860's. The main objective of Squier's work was, as he professed, to "illustrat[e] Inca civilization from its exisiting monuments" (Squier 1877: 4). The following excerpts from the book's introduction summarize Squier's accounts. "At that time a...

A Peruvian atlatl (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John C. Whittaker. David Wescott.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Peruvian Fabrics (1916)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. D. C. Crawford.

Peruvian Textiles (1915)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. D. C. Crawford.

Pillage and Production in the Amazon: a View Through the Conibo of the Ucayali Basin, Eastern Peru (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Warren R. DeBoer.

Planina Nazca bez záhad (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jiří Sonnek.

The Nazca Plains without mysteries The author explains the pictures on the Nazca Plains as tended work areas, created while making ropes and nets. The adjacent pictures of animals and various symbols served as symbols of the groups of makers.

POLLEN, PHYTOLITH AND STARCH ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM PERNIL ALTO, PERU (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pernil Alto is located on the Rio Grande in an arid coastal desert in Southern Peru. Water is supplied by rivers from the Andes. Ten pieces of groundstone that included mortars and a single stone bowl fragment were washed and the resulting particles were submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis to determine what plants were ground using these tools.

Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru: in Origins of Agriculture (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark N. Cohen.

Pottery firing in the Jequetepeque Valley (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria-Louise Sidoroff. David Wescott.

Pre-Columbian ballgame handstones: rejoinder to Clune (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S F de Borhegyi.

Pre-Columbian metallurgy of South America: a conference; 1975 - 1979 (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E R Benson.

Pre-Columbian negative painted pottery; some notes and observations (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Cheetham. Ann Woods.

Pre-Columbian Occurrence of Laenaria Seeds in Coastal Peru (1952)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Ashley Towle.

Pre-Columbian Peruvian Tibia Exhibiting Syphilitic (?) Periostosis With Recognizable Varieties of Bone Marrow (1936)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. B. Krumbhaar.

Pre-Columbian Spinning and Lloq'e yarn: an ethnographic analogy (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A S Oakland.

Preceramic Period Vertebrate Use in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2004)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman.

Faunal remains from the Proyecto Pacasmayo provide the opportunity to examine vertebrate subsistence strategies of inland communities during the transitional Preceramic period. Proyecto Pacasmayo excavations at Middle Preceramic sites in the Jequetepeque Valley in northern Peru reveal evidence for increasing complexity, localization, and aggregation. The Pacasmayo sites are all located within the vegetated lomas areas of two alluvial fans, Quebrada del Batán, and Quebrada Talambo. Of...

Preceramic Textile Sand Cordage from Guitarrero Cave, Peru (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Adovasio. Thomas F. Lynch.

Precolumbian obsidian earspools: an investigation of possible manufacturing methods (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E G Thomsen. H H Thomsen.

The preferences for British earthenwares among 18th- and 19th-century Limeños: A perspective from the historical archaeology of the Casa Bodega y Quadra, Lima, Peru. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel Angel Fhon Bazan.

Archaeological research at the Casa Bodega y Quadra, located in the historic city-center of Lima, Peru, has recovered of a large number of colonial and republican-era artifacts, including pottery sherds of a variety of types and origins. A percentage of these ceramics correspond to British earthenwares. This material evidence reflects the intense and sustained trade between England and Peru that developed at the close of the 18th century and the 19th century. This study examines the...

Prehistoric Bronze in South America (1915)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles W. Mead.

Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru (1953)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gordon R. Willey.

Primitive Flutes Made of Bone (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Lizaralde. David Wescott.

Primitive Flutes out of Bone: a South American example (1999)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Lizaralde.

Putting Archaeobotany Under the Microscope: A Case Study for Increased Use of Starch-Grain Residue Analysis on the North Coast of Peru (2015)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Guy Duke. Victor Vásquez-Sanchez. Teresa Rosales-Tham.

Due to the arid environment and subsequent excellent preservation on the north coast of Peru, evidence obtained from macrobotanical remains here has been the primary sources of information on plant use. However, despite the richness of the macrobotanical record, the combination of arid conditions and the nature of many plants, such as potatoes and beans – which are consumed in their entirety – macrobotanical remains can only tell us so much. In this paper, we discuss some methodological issues...