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Moseley, Michael. 1992. The Incas and their Ancestors. Ch. 2: pp. 25-48. (review)

* Brush, Steven B. 1976. Man's Use of an Andean Ecosystem. Human Ecology 4:2:147-166.

D'Altroy, Terence N. 1997. Recent Research on the Central Andes. Journal of Archaeological Research 5:1:3-73.

* D'Altroy, T. N. (1994a). Civilizations in the Andes (with contributions by Donnan, C. B., Shimada, I., and Topic, J.). In Burenhalt, G. (gen. ed.), The Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 4, New World and Pacific Civilizations, Sydney: University of Queensland Press, pp. 78-99.

* Flannery, Kent V., Joyce Marcus, and Robert G. Reynolds. 1989. The Flocks of the Wamani. Academic Press, New York. [Ch. 4:39-88; Ch. 5:88-117]

* Moseley, Michael. 1992. The Incas and their Ancestors. Ch. 1:7-24; Ch. 3:49-79.

Murra, John V. 1984. Andean Societies before 1543. In The Cambridge History of Latin America, ed. L. Bethell. 1:59-90. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

* Aldenderfer, Mark S. 1989. The Archaic Period in the South-Central Andes. Journal of World Prehistory 3:2:117-158.

* Dillehay, Tom D., Gerardo Ardila Calderón, Gustavo Politis, and Maria da Conceicao de Moraes Coutinho Beltrão. 1992. Earliest Hunters and Gatherers of South America. Journal of World Prehistory 6:2:145-204.

Dillehay, Tom D. 1989. Monte Verde. A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Lynch, Thomas F. 1971. Preceramic Transhumance in the Callejón de Huaylas, Peru. American Antiquity 36:139-48.

Lynch, Thomas F. 1974. The Antiquity of Man in South America. Quaternary Research 4:356-77.

* Moseley, Michael. 1992. The Incas and their Ancestors. Ch. 4: pp. 81-97.

* Rick and Chauchat chapters in Keatinge, Peruvian Prehistory. Ch. 1:3-40; Ch. 2:41-66.

Lynch, Thomas F. 1983. The Paleo-Indians. In Jennings, pp. 87-138.

Benfer, Robert A. 1990. The Preceramic Period Site of Paloma, Peru: Bioindications of Improving Adaptation to Sedentism. Latin American Antiquity 1:284-318.

Cohen, Mark. 1975. Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example from the Coast of Peru. In Population, Ecology, and Social Evolution, Steven Polgar, ed., pp. 79-122. The Hague: Mouton.

Dillehay, Tom D., Patricia J. Netherly, and Jack Rossen. 1989. Early Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru. American Antiquity 54:733-758.

Feldman, Robert. 1982. Life in Ancient Peru. Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 48:6:12-17.

Fung Pineda in Keatinge, Ch. 4:67-96.

Lathrap, Donald W., Jorge G. Marcos, and James Zeidler. 1977. Real Alto: An Ancient Ceremonial Center. Archaeology 30:2-13.

Meggers, Betty, Clifford Evans, and Emiliano Estrada. 1965. Early Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador: The Valdivia and Machalilla Phases. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, v. 1. Washington, D.C.

* Moore, Jerry D. 1996. Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-39.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 5:98-121.

Moseley, Michael E. 1975. The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization. Menlo Park, CA: Cummings.

* Pearsall, Deborah M. 1992. "The Origins of Plant Cultivation in South America." in The Origins of Agriculture, C. Wesley Cowan and Patty Jo Watson (eds.) Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. pp. 173-206.

Pearsall, Deborah M. and Dolores R. Piperno (1990). Antiquity of Maize Cultural in Ecuador: Summary and Reevaluation of the Evidence. American Antiquity 55:324-336.

Pozorski, Thomas, and Shelia Pozorski (1993). Early complex society and ceremonialism on the Peruvian north coast. In L. Millones and Y. Onuki, eds., El Mundo Ceremonial Andino, pp. 45-68. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

* Quilter, Jeffrey. (1991). Late Preceramic Peru. Journal of World Prehistory 5:4:387-438.

Quilter, Jeffrey, and Terry Stocker. 1982. Subsistence Economies and the Origins of Andean Complex Societies. American Anthropologist 85:3:545-562.

Stothert, Karen E. (1992). Early Economies of Coastal Ecuador and the Foundations of Andean Civilization. Andean Past 3:43-54. Ithaca: Cornell University Latin American Studies Program..

Wilson, David. 1981. Of Maize and Men: A Critique of the Maritime Hypothesis of State Origins on the Coast of Peru. American Anthropologist 83:1:93-120.

* Burger, Richard L. 1992. Chavín and the Origins of Andean Civilization. London: Thames and Hudson. [pp. 57-90]

* Moore, Jerry D. 1996. Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 39-50.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 6:122-148.

Donnan, Christopher B., ed. 1985. Early Ceremonial Architecture in the Andes. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. [esp. Grieder and Bueno Mendoza, and Terada]

Matsuzawa, T. 1978. The Formative Site of Las Haldas, Peru: Architecture, Chronology, and Economy. American Antiquity 43:652-72.

* Pozorski, Shelia, and Thomas Pozorski. 1991. Storage, Access Control, and Bureaucratic Proliferation: Understanding the Initial Period (1800-900 B.C.) Economy at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru. In Isaac, B. (ed.), Research In Economic Anthropology 13:341-371. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.

Pozorski, Shelia, and Thomas Pozorski. 1987. Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 6:148-159.

Benson, Elizabeth, ed., 1971. Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Chavín. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

Burger, Richard, in Keatinge, pp. 99-144.

* Burger, Richard L. 1992. Chavín and the Origins of Andean Civilization. London: Thames and Hudson. [128-227]

Burger, Richard. 1982. Pojoc and Waman Wain: Two Early Horizon Villages in the Chavín Heartland. Ñawpa Pacha 20:3-40.

* Alva, Walter, and Christopher Donnan. Discovering the New World's richest unlooted tomb. National Geographic 174:510-549.

* Alva, Walter, and Christopher Donnan. New tomb of royal splendor. National Geographic 177:2-15.

Alva, Walter, and Christopher B. Donnan. 1993. Royal Tombs of Sipán. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles.

* Moore, Jerry D. 1996. Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 53-64.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 7:160-208.

Carneiro, Robert, 1970. A Theory of the Origin of the State. Science 169:733-738.

Conklin, William, and Michael Moseley, in Keatinge, pp. 145-163.

Russell, Glenn S., Banks L. Leonard, and Jesus Briceńo. 1998. The Cerro Mayal Workshop: Addressing Issues of Craft Specialization in Moche Society. In Andean Ceramics, Izumi Shimada, ed., pp. 63-90. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Supplement to Vol. 15. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia.

* Shimada, Izumi. 1994. Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. TBA

Silverman, Helaine. 1990. Beyond the Pampa: The Geoglyphs in the Valleys of Nazca. National Geographic Research 6:435-456.

Silverman, H. (1993). Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City.

Topic, Teresa. 1982. The Early Intermediate Period and its Legacy. In Chan Chan: Andean Desert City, Michael Moseley and Kent C. Day, eds., pp. 255-284. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Wilson, David. 1983. The Origins and Development of Complex Prehistoric Society in the Lower Santa Valley, Peru: Implications for Theories of State Origins. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2:209-276.

* Wilson, David. 1997. Early State Formation on the North Coast of Peru. In The Archaeology of City-States, Deborah L. Nichols and Thomas H. Charlton, eds. pp. 229-244. Washington: Smithsonian.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 8:209-216, 224-230.

Bermann, Marc Paul. (1994). Lukurmata: Household Archaeology in Prehispanic Bolivia. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Erickson, Clark L. 1988. Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin: Putting Ancient Agriculture Back to Work. Expedition, Vol.30, No.3.

* Erickson, Clark L. (1993b). The Social Organization of Prehispanic Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin. In Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World, Vernon L. Scarborough and Barry L. Isaac, eds. Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 7, pp. 369-426. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.

Goldstein, Paul 1993. Tiwanaku Temples and State Expansion: A Tiwanaku Sunken-Court Temple in Moquegua, Peru. Latin American Antiquity 4:22-27.

Kolata, Alan L. 1993. Understanding Tiwanaku: Conquest, Colonization, and Clientage in the South Central Andes. In Latin American Horizons, Don S. Rice, ed., pp. 193-224. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

* Kolata, Alan L. 1991. The Technology and Organization of Agricultural Production in the Tiwanaku State. Latin American Antiquity 2:99-125.

Kolata, Alan L. 1993. The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization. Cambridge, MA: Basil, Blackwell.

* Kolata, Alan, and Carlos Ponce Sanginés. 1992. Tiwanaku: The City at the Center. In The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, ed. Richard Townsend, pp. 317-334. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago.

Ortloff, C. R., and Kolata, A. (1993). Climate and collapse: Agro-ecological perspectives on the decline of the Tiwanaku state. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:191-221.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 8:216-224.

Conklin, William J. (1991). Tiahuanaco and Huari: Architectural Comparisons and Interpretations. In Huari Administrative Structure: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government, William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan, eds., pp. 281-291. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

* Cook, Anita G. 1992. The Stone Ancestors: Idioms of Imperial Attire and Rank among Huari Figurines. Latin American Antiquity 3:341-364.

* Isbell, William H., Christine Brewster-Wray, and Lynda E. Spickard. Architecture and Spatial Organization at Huari, in Huari Administrative Structure: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government, William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan, eds., pp. 19-53. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

Schreiber, Katharina J. 1992. Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru. Anthropological Papers No. 87, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [Ch. 3:71-114; Ch. 8:259-283]

* Schreiber, Katharina J. n.d. The Wari Empire of Middle Horizon Peru: The Epistemological Challenge of Documenting an Empire without Documentary Evidence. In Empires. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (edited by S. Alcock, T. D'Altroy, K. Morrison, and C. Sinopoli; in preparation)

Topic, John R. (1991). Huari and Huamachuco. In Huari Administrative Structure: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government, William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan, eds., pp. 141-164. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

Topic, Theresa L. (1991). The Middle Horizon in Northern Peru. In Huari Administrative Structure: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government, William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan, eds., pp. 233-246. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.

* Moore, Jerry D. 1996. Architecture and Power in the Ancient Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 64-91.

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 9:248-262.

* Moseley, Michael, and Alana Cordy-Collins, eds. (1990). The Northern Dynasties: Kingship and Statecraft in Chimor. Dumbarton Oaks: Washington, D.C. [chapters TBA]

* Rowe, John H. 1948. The Kingdom of Chimor. Acta Americana 6:26-59.

* D'Altroy, T. and C. Hastorf, eds. n.d. Empire and Domestic Economy. New York: Plenum. pp. TBA.

Graffam, Gray 1992. Beyond State Collapse: Rural History, Raised Fields, and Pastoralism in the South Andes. American Anthropologist 94:882-904.

Hastorf, Christine. 1992. Agriculture and the onset of inequality before the Incas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

* Hyslop, John. 1977. Hilltop cities in Peru. Archaeology 30:4:218-225.

* Julien, Daniel. 1993. Late pre-Inkaic ethnic groups in highland Peru: Archaeological-ethnohistorical model of the political geography of the Cajamarca region. Latin American Antiquity 4:246-273.

* Parsons, Jeffrey, and Charles Hastings, in Keatinge, pp. 190-229.

* Bauer, Brian S. (1991). Pacariqtambo and the Mythical Origins of the Inca. Latin American Antiquity 2:7-26.

Bauer, Brian S. (1992). The Development of the Inca State. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Bauer, Brian S., and David S. P. Dearborn (1995). Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes. University of Texas Press, Austin.

* Hyslop, John. 1992. Inka Settlement Planning. University of Texas Press, Austin. Ch. 2, pp. 29-68. [Cuzco]

McEwan, Colin, and Maarten van de Guchte. (1992). Ancestral Time and Sacred Space in Inca State Ritual. In The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Richard F. Townsend, ed., pp. 359-373. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

* Rowe, John H. 1946. Inca Culture at the Time of the Spanish Conquest. In Handbook of South American Indians, ed. Julian Steward, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 143, vol. 2. 183-330. Washington, DC.

Collier, George, et al. 1982. The Inca and Aztec States 1400-1800: Anthropology and History. Academic Press, New York.

Conrad, Geoffrey, and Arthur Demarest. 1984. Religion and Empire. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

* Costin, C. L., and T. K. Earle. (1989). Status distinction and legitimation of power as reflected in changing patterns of consumption in late prehispanic Peru. American Antiquity 54:691-714.

D'Altroy, Terence, 1992. Provincial Power in the Inka Empire. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

D'Altroy, T. N. (1994). Public and private economy in the Inka Empire. In Brumfiel, E. (ed.), The Economic Anthropology of the State, pp. 171-222. Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph 11. University Press of America, Lanham, MD.

* D'Altroy, T. N. (i.p.). Politics, Resources, and Blood in the Inka Empire. In Empires. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (edited by S. Alcock, T. D'Altroy, K. Morrison, and C. Sinopoli; in preparation)

Morris, Craig, and Adriana von Hagen 1992. The Inka Empire and its Andean Origins. American Museum of Natural History, New York.

* Morris, Craig, and Donald Thompson, 1985. Huánuco Pampa: An Inka City and its Hinterland. Thames and Hudson, New York. [pages TBA]

* Moseley, Michael. The Incas and their Ancestors, Ch. 2:49-79.

Murra, John V. 1980. [1956] The Economic Organization of the Inka State. JAI, Press, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Reinhard, Johan. 1996. Peru's Ice Maidens. National Geographic 189:6:62-81.