Article(electronic)September 1983

Subsistence Economies and the Origins of Andean Complex Societies

In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 85, Issue 3, p. 545-562

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Abstract

Recent arguments stating that marine resources were relatively unimportant in cultural developments on the coast of Peru during the Preceramic Period are incorrect on several counts. It is shown that the economics and technology of maritime subsistence of coastal Peru are more complex than previously thought, that the nutritional values of terrestrial versus maritime foods are debatable, that the dynamics of El Niño events are complex, and that maritime resources must still be seen as important for Preceramic Period economies. [Central Andes, coastal adaptations, ecological anthropology, origins of complex societies]

Languages

English

Publisher

Wiley

ISSN: 1548-1433

DOI

10.1525/aa.1983.85.3.02a00030

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