| Contributors | 5 |
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| Preface | 7 |
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| Contents | 9 |
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| Introduction | 12 |
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| Regional Patterns | 13 |
| The North | 30 |
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| Introduction | 31 |
| America's First City? The Case of Late Archaic Caral | 36 |
| Religious Warfare at Chankillo | 75 |
| The Vicus-Mochica Relationship | 93 |
| Competitive Feasting, Religious Pluralism and Decentralized Power in the Late Moche Period | 120 |
| Northern Exposures: Recuay- Cajamarca Boundaries and Interaction | 151 |
| Chimu Craft Specialization and Political Economy: A View from the Provinces | 179 |
| The South | 205 |
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| Introduction | 206 |
| Early Village Society in the Formative Period in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin | 217 |
| The Emergence of Complex Society in the Titicaca Basin: The View from the North | 244 |
| Redefining Plant Use at the Formative Site of Chiripa in the Southern Titicaca Basin | 265 |
| Ritual and Society in Early Intermediate Period Ayacucho: A View From the Site of Nawinpukyo | 286 |
| Missing Links, Imaginary Links: Staff God Imagery in the South Andean Past | 314 |
| Water, Blood and Semen: Signs of Life and Fertility in Nasca Art | 359 |
| Burial Patterns and Sociopolitical Organization in Nasca 5 Society | 381 |
| When and Where Did the Nasca Proliferous Style Emerge? | 408 |
| Violence and Rural Lifeways at Two Peripheral Wari Sites in the Majes Valley of Southern Peru | 442 |
| Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire | 475 |
| Conclusion | 501 |
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| Rethinking the Central Andean Co- Tradition | 502 |
| Index | 524 |