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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA is a research unit that promotes the comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the human past. The Institute researchers work throughout the world with particular emphasis on Mesoamerica, South America, California, China, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Europe. Researchers employ a wide range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds, bringing anthropological, classical, historical, humanistic and scientific perspectives to the Institute and its interpretations of the past.

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Yeki bud, yeki nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M Sumner
edited by Naomi F Miller and Kamyar Abdi
A collection of essays put together by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner to honor his contribution to Iranian archaeology and archaeological field methodology. Topical contributions emphasize the methodological aspects of analysis of survey data, while regional contributions focus on two of the main geographical areas studied by archaeologists in Iran: the southwest and the northwest. Papers primarily concern the fifth to ...
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Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture
edited by Penelope Allison
Studies of Pompeiian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art-historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeiian houses for studies of Roman domestic behaviour. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeiian household artifacts and their role in deepening our understanding of household behavior at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses ...
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Prehistory of Agriculture
edited by Patricia Anderson
The twenty eight contributors to this book show how experimental and ethnographic approaches are being used to shed new light on the process of domestication, and harvesting techniques, tools and technology in the period just before and just after the ...
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Pathways to Prismatic Blades: A Study in Mesoamerican Obsidian Core-Blade Technology
by Kenneth Hirth and Bradford Andrews
Explores the social and economic processes involved in the manufacture of obsidian prismatic blades, one of the sharpest cutting instruments ever produced in the prehistoric world. Focusing on ancient Mesoamerica, contributors examine the variation in the ...
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Foundations of Chumash Complexity
edited by Jeanne E Arnold
This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognised as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest ...
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The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism
edited by Hans Barnard and Willeke Wendrich
There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies in the fact that it brings together a worldwide collection of studies of the archaeology of mobility. This book provides a ready-made reference to this worldwide phenomenon and is unique in that ...
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Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
edited by Charles Stanish and Brian Bauer
In 1994, almost 100 years after the first systematic archaeological research by Adolph Bandelier, Charles Stanish and Brian Bauer began work on the Islands of the Sun and Moon in southern Lake Titicaca. The Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka conducted a complete surface survey of the islands along with test excavations of important Inca, Tiwanaku, and pre-Tiwanaku sites. This book provides the final results of this work on one of the most important locations ...
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The Chanka: Archaeological Research in Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru
by Brian S. Bauer, Lucas C. Kellet, and Miram Aráoz Silva
In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program of expansion. Conquering a host of smaller polities, their army had advanced well inside the territory of their traditional rival, the Inca. In a series of unusual manoeuvres, the Inca defeated the invading Chanka forces and became the most ...
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Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley
edited by Brian S Bauer
Although the Cuzco Valley of Peru is renowned for being the heartland of the Incas, little is known concerning its pre-Inca inhabitants. Until recently it was widely believed that the first inhabitants of the Cuzco Valley were farmers who lived in scattered villages along the valley floor (ca. 1000 BC) and that there were no Archaic Period remains in the region. This perspective was challenged during a systematic survey of the valley, when ...
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Settlement, Subsistence and Social Complexity
edited by Richard E Blanton
This publication sees a number of leading scholars taking an in-depth look at settlement patterns in the ancient Americas. Contents: Introduction; Regional Survey at Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World Methodologies in Old World Urban Contexts; Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Northeastern Basin of Mexico A.P.; Opting In and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula and Xaltocan; The Tunanmarca Polity of Highland Peru and its ...
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