The South American Camelids Camélidos Sudamericanos. English

One Of The Most Significant Differences Between The New World's Major Areas Of High Culture Is That Mesoamerica Had No Beasts Of Burden And Wool, While The Andes Had Both. Four Members Of The Camelid Family - Wild Guanacos And Vicunas, And Domestic Llamas And Alpacas - Were Native To The Andes. South American Peoples Relied On These Animals For Meat And Wool, And As Beasts Of Burden To Transport Goods All Over The Andes. In This Book, Duccio Bonavia Tackles Major Questions About These Camelids, From Their Domestication To Their Distribution At The Time Of The Spanish Conquest. One Of Bonavia's Hypotheses Is That The Arrival Of The Europeans And Their Introduced Old World Animals Forced The Andean Camelids Away From The Pacific Coast, Creating The (mistaken) Impression That Camelids Were Exclusively High-altitude Animals.^ Bonavia Also Addresses The Diseases Of Camelids And Their Population Density, Suggesting That The Original Camelid Populations Suffered From A Different Type Of Mange Than That Introduced By The Europeans. This New Mange, He Believes, Was One Of The Causes Behind The Great Morbidity Of Camelids In Colonial Times. In Terms Of Domestication, While Bonavia Believes That The Major Centers Must Have Been The Puna Zone Intermediate Zones, He Adds That The Process Should Not Be Seen As Restricted To A Single Environmental Zone. Bonavia's Landmark Study Of The South American Camelids Is Now Available For The First Time In English. This New Edition Features An Updated Analysis And Comprehensive Bibliography. In The Spanish Edition Of This Book, Bonavia Lamented The Fact That The Zooarchaeological Data From R. S. Macneish's Ayacucho Project Had Yet To Be Published. In Response, The Ayacucho's Project's Faunal Analysts, Elizabeth S.^ Wing And Kent V Flannery, Have Added Appendices On The Ayacucho Results To This English Edition. This Book Will Be Of Broad Interest To Archaeologists, Zoologists, Social Anthropologists, Ethnohistorians, And A Wide Range Of Students.--book Jacket. The Taxonomy And Phylogeny Of The South American Camelids -- Notes On The Biology Of The South American Camelids -- Notes On The Paleontology Of The South American Camelids -- Archaeological Data From Peru -- The Process Of Domesticating The South American Camelids -- Historical Data -- Camelid Herds And Caravans : Numbers, Killings, Abuses, Regulations, Fertility, And Diseases, According To Documentary Sources -- Data From The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries -- Archaeological And Historical Data From Other Latin American Countries -- The Feeding And Use Of Camelids : Advantages And Disadvantages Of Native And Imported Animals -- Did Pastoralism Exist In The Andes? -- The Current Distribution Of The South American Camelids : Causes And Consequences : Can A Historically Accurate Statistic Be Prepared? -- Camels In Peru -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix A. Animal Remains From Archaeological Sites In The Ayacucho Basin Below 3000 M Elevation / By Elizabeth Wing -- Appendix B. Animal Remains From Archaeological Sites In The Ayacucho Basin Above 3000 M Elevation / By Kent V. Flannery. By Duccio Bonavia ; Translated By Javier Flores Espinoza. Expanded And Corr. Translation Of: Camélidos Sudamericanos. 1996. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 521-602) And Index. Cover Half Title Publications Title Copyright Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Note to The Reader Introduction Chapter 1: The Taxonomy and Phylogeny of South American Camelids Chapter 2: Notes on the Biology of the South American Camelids Chapter 3: Notes on the Paleontology of the South American Camelids Chapter 4: Archaeological Data from Peru Chapter 5: The Process of Domesticating South American Camelids Chapter 6: Historical Data Chapter 7: Camelid Herds and Caravans Chapter 8: Data From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chapter 9: Archaeological and Historical Data from Other Latin American Countries Chapter 10: The Feeding and Use of Camelids Chapter 11: Did Pastoralism Exist in the Andes Chapter 12: The Current Distribution of South American Camelids: Causes and Consequences Chapter 13: Camels in Peru Chapter 14: Concluding Remarks Bibliography Appendix APPENDIX A Animal Remains from Archaeological Sites in the Ayacucho Basin Below 3000 m Elevation, by Elizabeth Wing APPEI\TDIX B Animal Remains from Archaeological Sites in the Ay.acucho Basin Above 3000 m Elevation, by Kent V. Flannery Index