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xv+185pp with frontispiece, 39 photos, 106 drawings & maps, appendixes and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/2") issued in brown cloth with gilt letter. Foreword by Robert A Benfer, illustrations by Bernardino Ojeda E. 1st edtion.Gold, pomp, and circumstances surrounded the mummies of Inca emperors, but the elaborate funerary rites at the end of prehistory were only part of a tradition that began thousands of years earlier. Life and Death at Paloma, the first in-depth treatment of burials from a preagricultural South American village, analyzes the life of its people during a revolutionary time in prehistory: the transition from a hunting-gathering-fishing way of life to a more sedentary horticultural society. Drawing upon the data that he collected as part of the University of Missouri's excavations at Paloma, Jeffrey Quilter gives us the first study of preceramic Peruvian life through his analysis of this site's graves and contents. His extensively illustrated book is also the first attempt to infer…
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- Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
- Date 1989
- ISBN 9780877451945
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