Perspectives on Andean Prehistory and Protohistory: Papers from the Third Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

This volume represents eight of the eighteen papers presented at the Third Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on October 27 and 28, 1984. It also includes a paper presented at the Second NCAAE held at the American Museum of Natural History on November 19-20, 1983. The papers include: Wandering Shellfish: New Insights from Southeastern Coastal Ecuador by Patricia Netherly, Late Prehistoric Terracing at Chijra in the Collca Valley, Peru: Preliminary Report I by Michael A. Malpass, The Topara Tradition: An Overview by Dwight T. Wallace, The Peruvian North Central Coast During the Early Intermediate Period: An Emerging Perspective by Richard E. Daggett, A Sequence of Monumental Architecture from Huamanchuco by John R. Topic, Duality in Public Architecture in the Upper Zena Valley by Patricia J. Netherly and Tom D. Dillehay, Piruru: A Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Botany of a Highland Andean Site by Lawrence Kaplan and Elisabeth Bonnier, Analysis of Organic Remains from Huamachuco Qollqas by Coreen E. Chiswell, Aspects of Casting Practice in Prehispanic Peru by Stuart V. Arnold, and Representations of the Cosmos: A Comparison of the Church of San Cristobal de Pampachiri with the Coricancha Drawing of Santacruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua by Monica Barnes.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past_special/1000/thumbnail.jp