Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley


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Series: Monographs 63
ISBN: 978-1-931745-54-3
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Price: Hb $40, Pb $20, eBook $20
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Joyce Marcus and Patrick Ryan Williams

This volume brings together exciting new field data by more than two dozen Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor, Michael E. Moseley. These new studies cover the enormous temporal span of Moseley’s own work from the Preceramic era to the Tiwanaku and Moche states to the Inka empire. And, like Moseley’s own studies—from Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization to Chan Chan: The Desert City to Cerro Bául’s brewery—these new studies involve settlements from all over the Andes—from the far northern highlands to the far southern coast. An invaluable addition to any Andeanist’s library, the papers in this book demonstrate the enormous breadth and influence of Michael E. Moseley’s work and the vibrant range of exciting new research by his former students and collaborators in fieldwork.
Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Michael E. Moseley and the Foundations of Andean Civilization by Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish
Chapter 2. Prehistoric Population Dynamics in The Andes by Richard C. Sutter
Chapter 3. Early Fishing and Inland Monuments: Challenging the Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization? by Daniel H. Sandweiss
Chapter 4. Quebrada Tacahuay and Early Maritime Foundations on Peru’s Far Southern Coast by Susan D. Defrance
Chapter 5. Key Research Themes in the South-Central Andean Archaic by Mark Aldenderfer
Chapter 6. Talking Dogs and New Clothes, or the Maritime Foundations Hypothesis Revisited by Robert A. Feldman
Chapter 7. Caral-Supe Y Su Entorno Natural Y Social En Los Orígenes De La Civilización by Ruth Shady Solís
Chapter 8. Early Agriculture in the Coastal Osmore Valley, Peru: Synchronous Events and Macroregional  Processes in the Formation of Andean Civilization by Bruce D. Owen
Chapter 9. The Tiwanaku Occupation of the Northern Titicaca Basin by Charles Stanish
Chapter 10. The Moche Use of Numbers and Number Sets by Christopher B. Donnan
Chapter 11. Curated Corpses and Scattered Skeletons: New Data and New Questions Concerning the Moche Dead by Alana Cordy-Collins
Chapter 12. Exploration of Punctuated Equilibrium and Culture Change in the Archaeology of Andean Ethnogenesis by Garth Bawden and Richard Reycraft
Chapter 13. Settlement Patterns in the Huamachuco Area by John R. Topic
Chapter 14. The Meaning of Monuments at Marcahuamachuco by Theresa Lange Topic
Chapter 15. Wari Political Organization: The Southern Periphery by Donna J. Nash and Patrick Ryan Williams
Chapter 16. Diasporas within the Ancient State: Tiwanaku As Ayllus in Motion by Paul S. Goldstein
Chapter 17. A World Tour of Breweries by Joyce Marcus
Chapter 18. Chimú Statecraft in the Provinces by Carol Mackey
Chapter 19. Camelid Herders: The Forgotten Specialists in the Coastal Señorío of Chiribaya, Southern Peru by María Cecilia Lozada, Jane E. Buikstra, Gordon Rakita, and Jane C. Wheeler
Chapter 20. Inka Agricultural Intensification in the Imperial Heartland and Provinces by R. Alan Covey
Chapter 21. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and the Spanish Colonial Wine Industry of Southern Peru by Prudence M. Rice
Chapter 22. Michael E. Moseley: The Formative Years 1941–1985 by James B. Richardson III