By Jerry D. Moore
ISBN-10: 160732332X
ISBN-13: 9781607323327
For greater than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from cellular hunters and gatherers to rulers and citizens of gigantic towns. within the technique, local South American societies made developments in agriculture and financial platforms and created nice works of art—in pottery, textiles, helpful metals, and stone—that nonetheless awe the fashionable eye. equipped in huge chronological sessions, A Prehistory of South America explores those diversified human achievements, emphasizing the various diversifications of peoples from a continent-wide standpoint. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies throughout South the United States, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond.
Illustrated in complete colour and appropriate for an informed basic reader drawn to the Precolumbian peoples of South the USA, A Prehistory of South America is an extended late addition to the literature on South American archaeology.
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