Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru, Volume III: Nonceramic Artifacts

Description

Authors: MacNeish, Richard S. (1918-2001); Vierra, Robert K.; Nelken-Terner, Antoinette; and Phagan, Carl J.

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Pub Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Light edge and corner wear.   Some smudging to bottom text block.   Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  No chips, tears.  some edge, corner and spine wear.  Scuffing to front and rear.

Notes: Volume 3 of a multi-volume set.  All volumes sold separately.  MacNeish and his colleagues investigated the Ayacucho Basin from 1969-1972.  This volume concerns the transition from hunter-gatherer to the beginnings of agriculture in the valley, moving from caves to the establishment of “semi-permanent” settlements.  Their work in the Ayacucho Valley of Peru in that period established the outline of human habitation there, from the earliest hunter-gathering culture to the complex society of the Incan empire.  Overall the volumes of the series help document the geological, botanical, agricultural, zoological and archaeological aspects of the basin over the past 25,000 years.                                                                                                                                                                                                            Volume 1 of the series was tentatively subtitled “Environment and Subsistence”, but I can find no listing for its publication other than in the bibliography of Volume 4, listed as “In Preparation”.  Though MacNeish mentions a Volume 5 [the ceramic period] in Chapter 1 of Volume 4, I can find no listing for its publication.   So, we have volumes 2, 3, and 4 of a four or five volume set.