The maritime foundations of Andean civilization

by Michael Edward Moseley

Paper Book, 1975

Status

Available

Call number

F3429 .M85

Publication

Menlo Park, Calif. : Cummings Pub. Co., [1974] c1975.

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The Peruvian archeologist, Professor M.E. Moseley, argues against the assumption that civilization follows after agriculture and settled villages. Using a broad variety of details, the Professor shows that civilization in the central coast of Peru arose without the benefit of agriculture. Great
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resource for comparing political and social organization, and the implications for the early period dependent upon maritime resources, and the later coastal civilization dependent on agriculture.
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Physical description

xii, 131 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

0846548003 / 9780846548003

Barcode

34662000521069
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