Life and death at Paloma : society and mortuary practices in a preceramic Peruvian village / by Jeffrey Quilter ; with burial illustrations by Bernardino Ojeda E. ; foreword by Robert A. Benfer.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-181) and index.
Contents
Climate, Chronology, and Culture in Early Peru -- The Site of Paloma -- The Archaeological Discoveries at Paloma -- Quantitative Analyses of the Paloma Burials -- Discussion of Faloma Mortuary Practices -- Paloma and Preceramic Cultural History and Processes.
Summary
Life and Death at Paloma, when published in 1989, was the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village. It remains a valuable resource used by students and scholars of Andean archaeology. Jeffrey Quilter analyzes the life of Paloma's people during the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society and offers a study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and their contents.
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