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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 Palomas 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 sites graves and their contents.
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Life and Death At Paloma : Society and Mortuary Practices in a Preceramic Peruvian Village
author
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Quilter, Jeffrey.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
:
087745194X
print isbn13
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9780877451945
ebook isbn13
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9781587291982
language
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English
subject
Paloma Site (Peru) , Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites--Peru, Indians of South America--Peru--Antiquities, Peru--Antiquities.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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F3429.3.M7Q56 1989eb
ddc
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985
subject
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Paloma Site (Peru) , Indians of South America--Funeral customs and rites--Peru, Indians of South America--Peru--Antiquities, Peru--Antiquities.
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Life and Death at Paloma
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Burial 142
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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
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1989 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1989
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949 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. 1st ed. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-87745-194-X 1. Paloma Site (Peru). 2. Indians of South America Peru Mortuary customs. 3. Indians of South America Peru Antiquities. 4. Peru Antiquities. I. Title. F3429.3.M7Q56 1989 88-31276 985 dc19 CIP
Typesetting by G & S Typesetters, Austin, Texas Printing and binding by Braun-Brumfield, Ann Arbor, Michigan
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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FOR MY FAMILY Thomas and Joan, Sarah, Susanna, and Betsy
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Contents
Foreword, by Robert A. Benfer
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface
xiii
1. Climate, Chronology, and Culture in Early Peru
1
2. The Site of Paloma
10
3. The Archaeological Discoveries at Paloma
26
4. Quantitative Analyses of the Paloma Burials
43
5. Discussion of Paloma Mortuary Practices
53
6. Paloma and Preceramic Cultural History and Processes
68
Appendix 1.
Burial Illustrations and Data
87
Appendix 2. Supplementary Tables
163
References Cited
173
Index
183
Page ix
Foreword
BY ROBERT A. BENFER
The Paloma Archaeological Project was designed to be both a contribution to Andean prehistory and a test case in the study of biological and cultural adaptations of a population isolated from Old World diseases and other influences. Our efforts built upon the work of Frd&ric-Andr Engel and his team of investigators from the Centro de Investigaciones de Zonas Aridas of the National Agrarian University of Peru, who discovered the site in 1964 and excavated there in 1973. From the start, the research was designed to be both multi- and interdisciplinary and to be open to researchers from a variety of institutions, both in the United States and in Peru.
Jeffrey Quilter joined the project while he was a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and participated in the 1976 excavations. This book is the product of his research on mortuary customs at the site, including integration of data collected both before and since the 1976 study. The work not only is of value as a summary statement of the Paloma researches but is important in laying the foundation for the study of death rites and society in a seminal period in the development of Andean cultures. For although more than ten years have passed since our work began, relatively little is available concerning funerary practices and what they may tell of the early occupation of western South America. Gradually, however, the corpus of data is increasing (e.g., Stothert 1985; Engel 1987). Given the relatively recent and continuing focus on burials as a rich body of information on ideological and social systems, this book will help provide a framework for discussion of early Andean mortuary behavior.
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