Cultural Complexity (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Narvaez.

El Paraíso architectonic complex is located in the lower section of the Chillon River Valley, less than 2 km from the Pacific Ocean, in Lima, the capital city of Peru. It is composed by 14 structures, or huacas, distributed in an area of 47 hectares, in a rural place named Chuquitanta. The site is recognized as one of the earliest expressions of monumental architecture and social complexity in Peru since the works of Frédéric Engel in the 1960’s and Jeffrey Quilter in the 1980’s. Since 2015, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Curtiss T. Brennan.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Marquardt.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Marquardt.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne Mack.

The geology of Shasta Valley, California provides an extremely rich food resource for fish and shellfish, which produces abundant fish resources in the Shasta River and its tributaries, well documented by fishery biologists and historical records. The geographical location of the valley and the Upper Klamath River allows relatively easy access to high quality obsidian sources to the east, providing a valuable item for trade to the west. Consideration of the geology and geography allows for a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Lattanzi.

This is an abstract from the "From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Raw metals have been used by prehistoric peoples throughout the world. In the Middle Atlantic region of the United States, the most favored metal was copper. Copper objects of all kinds were seen as holding major religious and ceremonial significance. While there is evidence of...