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- catalog abstract ""In The First South Americans, Daniele Lavallee presents all current evidence and claims for the early traces of a human presence on the continent, surveying the territory from Tierra del Fuego to the Caribbean shores of Colombia and from Brazil to Ecuador. She discusses the continent's earliest occupants, then continues to explore cultural development that include the hunters of the Holocene, the rise of horticulture and animal domestication, maritime adaptations, the Andean development of ceramics and weaving, social stratification, and finally the emergence of the first Andean civilization of Chavin." "Lavallee shows how, little by little, people occupied this mosiac of territories over the millennia, sometimes yielding to the constraints of the environment, sometimes controlling and transforming it."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Peopling of a continent from the earliest evidence to high culture".
- catalog alternative "Promesse d'Amérique. English".
- catalog contributor b11914598.
- catalog coverage "South America Antiquities.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In The First South Americans, Daniele Lavallee presents all current evidence and claims for the early traces of a human presence on the continent, surveying the territory from Tierra del Fuego to the Caribbean shores of Colombia and from Brazil to Ecuador. She discusses the continent's earliest occupants, then continues to explore cultural development that include the hunters of the Holocene, the rise of horticulture and animal domestication, maritime adaptations, the Andean development of ceramics and weaving, social stratification, and finally the emergence of the first Andean civilization of Chavin."".
- catalog description ""Lavallee shows how, little by little, people occupied this mosiac of territories over the millennia, sometimes yielding to the constraints of the environment, sometimes controlling and transforming it."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-249) and index.".
- catalog description "The discovery of a world -- The first occupants -- The time of the hunters -- The Andean boom -- The other side of the cordillera -- Peasants, artisans, priests -- Epilogue : civilization.".
- catalog extent "xii, 260 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "First South Americans.".
- catalog identifier "0874806658 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "First South Americans.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press,".
- catalog relation "First South Americans.".
- catalog spatial "South America Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "980/.012 21".
- catalog subject "F2229 .L4313 2000".
- catalog subject "Indians of South America Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "Indians of South America History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The discovery of a world -- The first occupants -- The time of the hunters -- The Andean boom -- The other side of the cordillera -- Peasants, artisans, priests -- Epilogue : civilization.".
- catalog title "Peopling of a continent from the earliest evidence to high culture".
- catalog title "Promesse d'Amérique. English".
- catalog title "The first South Americans : the peopling of a continent from the earliest evidence to high culture / Danièle Lavallée ; translated by Paul G. Bahn.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".