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Domestic Life in Prehispanic Capitals: A Study of Specialization, Hierarchy, and Ethnicity

edited by Linda R. Manzanilla and Claude Chapelaine

This memoir, no. 46, is again available! Click here for details.

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru: Volume 2, The Wanka Region

edited by Jeffrey R. Parsons, Charles M. Hastings, and Ramiro Matos M.

This monograph is based on six months of systematic regional survey in the Wanka Region of Peru’s sierra central, carried out in two fieldseasons in 1975–76 by the Junin Archaeological Research Project (JASP) under the co-direction of Jeffrey R. Parsons (University of Michigan) and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos). It describes some 287 archaeological sites within a survey area of ca. 445 square kilometers lying between ca. 3200 and 4000 meters above sea level in elevation. Four major occupational periods are distinguished: Early Horizon, Early Intermediate Period/Middle Horizon, Late Intermediate Period, and Late Horizon; subsequent investigations in the same region by the Upper Mantaro Research Project (UMARP), directed by Timothy K. Earle (University of California at Los Angeles), refined the LIP chronology into early and late phases, and this new phasing has been applied to most LIP sites in the original JASP survey. The site descriptions include 24 sites in the bordering Jisse-Pomacancha Region, and several site plans from the original survey area, subsequently surveyed and mapped by UMARP archaeologists. The archaeological sites are considered within their environmental, ecological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic contexts. Look inside this book

Memoir 53, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2013
8½ × 11 inches; 400 pages; 170 tables; 547 illustrations plus 8 color plates
ISBN 978-0-915703-81-4
Softcover, $39 

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The Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz: The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition, 1932–1934

by Carla M. Sinopoli

In the fall of 1932, University of Michigan naturalist Walter N. Koelz traveled to northwest India to lead a scientific collecting expedition in the rugged Himalayan regions of Western Tibet. Some eighteen months later he returned to the United States with a remarkable collection of biological specimens and an array of objects—Buddhist paintings, ritual objects, textiles, and household goods—acquired from monasteries, households, and merchants. This book presents the diary entries Koelz wrote at the end of each day throughout his expedition, recounting in detail each day’s travels, bookended by a chapter contextualizing his acquisition of sacred Buddhist objects and an appendix that presents previously unpublished thangka paintings that he collected. Look inside this book

Anthropological Papers, no. 98, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2013
9 × 6 inches; 320 pages; 88 illustrations, 72 in color
ISBN 978-0-915703-80-7
Softcover, $28 

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