The Andean highlands and Amazonian rainforest run cheek-by-jowl for thousands of miles through South America. Popular perception, at least, would have the Andes as a cradle of civilization, set against Amazonia, where even the Incas
feared to tread. But is the ‘divide’ between them a self-evident, intrinsic definition
of opposing Andean and Amazonian worlds – or a simplistic parody?
CONTRIBUTORS: Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones, Paul Heggarty, Eduardo Machicado Murillo, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Alf Hornborg, R. Tom Zuidema, Tom D. Dillehay, André Strauss, Peter Kaulicke, Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky, Darryl Wilkinson, Fabrício R. Santos, Chiara Barbieri, Rik van Gijn, Pieter Muysken, Eduardo Góes Neves, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Roberto Zariquiey, Heiko Prümers, Umberto Lombardo, José M. Capriles, Vera Tyuleneva, Cristiana Bertazoni
Author(s): Adrian Pearce; David Beresford-Jones; Paul Heggarty, (eds.)
Publisher: University College London (UCL Press)
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 391+xxviii
City: London
Tags: Amazonia; Andes; Andes-Amazonia; South America; Sudamérica; Historia andina; Andean History; Historia amazónica; Amazonian History; Historia sudamericana; South American History; Arqueología andina; Andean Archaeology; Arqueología amazónica; Amazonian Archaeology; Lenguas andinas; Andean Languages; Lenguas amazónicas; Amazonian Languages; Amerind Languages; Tupi; Guarani; Quechua; Aymara; Uro; Pano; Takana; Moseten; Jivaro; Chicham; Awajun; Guaman Poma; Mojos; Juan Santos Atahualpa
Introduction. Why Andes–Amazonia? Why cross-disciplinary? 1
Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty
Part 1 Crossing frontiers: Perspectives from the various disciplines
1.1 Archaeology 21
David G. Beresford-Jones and Eduardo Machicado Murillo
1.2 Linguistics 35
Paul Heggarty
1.3 Genetics 48
Lars Fehren-Schmitz
1.4 Anthropology 58
Alf Hornborg
1.5 The Andes–Amazonia culture area 67
R. Tom Zuidema
Part 2 Deep time and the long chronological perspective
2.1 Initial east and west connections across South America 77
Tom D. Dillehay
2.2 The Andes–Amazonia divide and human morphological
diversification in South America 87
André Strauss
2.3 Deep time and first settlement: What, if anything,
can linguistics tell us? 94
Paul Heggartyviii ContEnts
2.4 Early social complexity in northern Peru and
its Amazonian connections 103
Peter Kaulicke
2.5 Changing Andes–Amazonia dynamics: El Chuncho
meets El Inca at the end of the Marañón corridor 115
Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky
Part 3 Overall patterns – and alternative models
3.1 How real is the Andes–Amazonia divide? An archaeological
view from the eastern piedmont 129
Darryl Wilkinson
3.2 Genetic diversity patterns in the Andes and Amazonia 143
Fabrício R. Santos
3.3 Genetic exchanges in the highland/lowland transitional
environments of South America 152
Chiara Barbieri
3.4 Broad-scale patterns across the languages of the Andes
and Amazonia 164
Paul Heggarty
3.5 Highland–lowland relations: A linguistic view 178
Rik van Gijn and Pieter Muysken
3.6 Rethinking the role of agriculture and language expansion
for ancient Amazonians 211
Eduardo Góes Neves
3.7 The Pacific coast and Andean highlands/Amazonia 221
Tom D. Dillehay, Brian McCray and Patricia J. Netherly
Part 4 Regional case studies from the Altiplano and southern
Upper Amazonia
4.1 Linguistic connections between the Altiplano region and the
Amazonian lowlands 239
Willem F. H. Adelaar
4.2 Hypothesized language relationships across the Andes–Amazonia
divide: The cases of Uro, Pano-Takana and Mosetén 250
Roberto ZariquieyContEnts ix
4.3 The Andes as seen from Mojos 263
Heiko Prümers
4.4 The archaeological significance of shell middens in
the Llanos de Moxos: Between the Andes and Amazonia 273
Umberto Lombardo and José M. Capriles
Part 5 Age of Empires: Inca and Spanish colonial perspectives
5.1 The Amazonian Indians as viewed by three Andean
chroniclers 285
Vera Tyuleneva, translated by Adrian J. Pearce
5.2 The place of Antisuyu in the discourse of Guamán
Poma de Ayala 297
Cristiana Bertazoni
5.3 Colonial coda: The Andes–Amazonia frontier under
Spanish rule 313
Adrian J. Pearce
5.4 A case study in Andes–Amazonia relations under colonial
rule: The Juan Santos Atahualpa rebellion (1742–52) 325
Adrian J. Pearce
Conclusion. The Andes–Amazonia divide: Myth and reality 332
Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty
