General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- PART ONE: ANALOGY AND CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION OF LITHIC INDUSTRIES -- Introduction -- The Aguas Verdes Industry of Northern Chile -- Toolmaking and Tool Use Among the Preceramic Peoples of Panama -- PART TWO: ORIGINS OF PLANT AND ANIMAL DOMESTICATION -- Introduction -- Population Pressure and the Origins of Agriculture: An Archaeological Example From the Coast of Peru -- Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics -- Animal Domestication in the Andes -- The Pre-Columbian Araucanian Chicken (Gallus inauris) of the Mapuche Indians -- PART THREE: CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN ANDES -- Introduction -- Formative-Period Interaction Spheres in the Intermediate Area: Archaeology of Central America and Adjacent South America -- Ridged-Field Excavations in the Central Orinoco Llanos, Venezuela -- Ecology, Economy, and Warfare in Lowland South America -- The Formative Cultures of the Venezuela Oriente -- Majolica Pottery: Determination of Its Provenience Using Thermoluminescence -- Interpretation of Buried Structures: Coastal Sites of the State of Sao Paolo, Brazil -- PART FOUR: ECONOMIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL ANDES -- Introduction -- The Cultural and Ecological Context of the Mantaro Valley During the Formative Period -- Toward the Development of the Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) State -- Cerro Sechin: Medical Anthropology's Inauguration in Peru? -- Prehistory and Petroglyphs in Southern Peru -- Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era -- Toward a Typology of Architecture and Urbanism in the Pre-Columbian Andes -- Manifestations of Inca Culture in Two Provinces of Chile -- PART FIVE: PALEOECOLOGICAL STUDIES IN ARGENTINA -- Introduction -- Considerations on the Periodizations of Northwest Argentina.

Paleoecology of the Calchaquí Valley, Salta Province, Argentina -- Concerning the Archaeology of the Humahuaca Quebrada -- Contribution to the San José and Santa María Cultures, Northwest Argentina -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.