Sand george

2014 · 019631 — New York NY: American Museum of Natural History 2014. Soft cover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 1 530 pages volume 2 page 533 - 896. Overseas customers please note this is a two volume set and will attract additionalpostage.Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 100. Between 1983 and 1992 the authors conducted an archaeological project that involved five years of survey and excavation in a 450 km² study region that included portions of the high llanos savanna grasslands and adjacent Andean piedmont in the state of Barinas Venezuela. Fieldwork in 1983-1988 was followed by four years of laboratory analysis in the Departamento de Antropologi´a at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cienti´ficas IVIC in Altos de Pipe state of Miranda. Our project was designed to investigate whether during pre-Hispanic times the study region had witnessed the development of a chiefdom which we defined as a regional multivillage polity led by a paramount chief who ruled from a regional center and presided over a chiefly administration that was centralized but not internally specialized. Our fieldwork comprised three seasons of regional survey during the summer months of 1983-1985 followed by two dry seasons January-May of excavation in 1986 and 1988. On survey we recorded a total of 103 archaeological sites in our study region that was centered on the Canagua´ River valley extending across the high llanos savanna grasslands and adjacent Andean piedmont. Site occupations pertained to two chronological periods: an early period dating to A.D. 300-1000 and a later period dating to A.D. 1000-1850 taking our coverage into the early historic period. We called the earlier of these occupations on the high llanos the Gava´n complex divided into the Early Gava´n phase A.D. 300-550 and the Late Gavaa´n phase A.D. 550-1000 the latter of which exhibited many of the characteristics consistent with the expected archaeological manifestations of a chiefly society. There was convincing evidence of a regional hierarchy." back cover CONTENTS: Volume 1. Abstract Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Research design Chapter 2. Data structure Chapter 3. Catalog of ceramic illustrations Chapter 4. Ceramics Chapter 5. Surface collections at Gava´n-complex sites Chapter 6. Excavations at B12 El Gava´n Volume 2. Chapter 7. Excavations at B97 Potrero de Eli´as Chapter 8. Excavations at B26 and B27 Chapter 9. Excavations at B21 Buenos Aires Chapter 10. Excavations at B17 Flor Amarilla Chapter 11. Conclusions References Appendix A. Gava´n-complex burials / William N. Duncan and Emily L. de Berrizbeitia Appendix B. A trial analysis of use-wear evidence on chipped stone tools / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond Appendix C. Report on pollen samples 54 114 and 442 / Milagro Rinaldi and Elsa M. Redmond Appendix D. Source identifications of stone artifacts / Ramo´n Sifontes G. and Carlos Schubert Appendix E. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates from Gava´n-complex sites / Charles S. Spencer Elsa M. Redmond and Rafael A. Gasso´n Appendix F. Analysis of misfired sherds and kiln wasters from B12 B21 and B97 / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond Appendix G. Macrobotanical remains from Gava´n-complex sites / Rene´e M. Bonzani. Contributors: Duncan William N. ; Berrizbeitia Emily L. de;Sifontes G. Ramo´n Schubert Carlos Gasso´n Rafael;Rinaldi Milagro Bonzani Rene´e M. <br/> <br/> American Museum of Natural History paperback