Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Environmental Setting; Project Objectives; 2. Casma Valley Sites Excavated in 1980; Methodology; Huaynuná; Las Haldas; Preceramic Las Haldas; Early Initial Period Las Haldas; Las Haldas Initial Period Mound Complex; Early Horizon Las Haldas; Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke; Tortugas; San Diego; Pampa Rosario; 3. Early Sites Surveyed within the Casma Valley; Sechin Alto; Taukachi-Konkan; Sechin Bajo; Cerro Sechin; Sechin Alto Complex; Huerequeque; Pallka; Huaca Desvio; La Cantina; Chankillo
Summary
The Casma Valley of Peru's north central coast contains the largest New World structure of its time period--2500 to 200 BC--as well as one of the densest concentrations of early sites. In this detailed and thought-provoking volume, Sheila and Thomas Pozorski date each major early site, assess this important valley's diet and subsistence changes through time, and begin to reconstruct the development of Casma Valley society. Fifteen sites are surveyed, including Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, the earliest planned city in the New World. The Pozorskis then synthesize their own fieldwork and previous
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140) and index
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