The University Press of Florida announces a new book series, Archaeology of South America, edited by Gabriel Prieto, Sonia Alconini, and Eduardo Góes Neves.
South America is home to some of the most significant archaeological sites in the Western hemisphere. This book series will include publications on South American archaeology from the time of the first Paleoindians through the colonial period. The series editors invite proposals for monographs or edited volumes on South American archaeology focused on a wide range of topics in archaeological studies, from site-focused monographs to coedited books with comparative perspectives in different fields of archaeology.
The series editors will be in New Orleans for the Society for American Archaeology conference in April. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the series editors to meet at the conference, or queries can be directed to them using the contact information listed below.
Gabriel Prieto is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. His research interests include ancient maritime societies and ritual violence on the North coast of Peru. Prieto is coeditor of Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes.
Contact: ogabriel.prietob@ufl.edu
Sonia Alconini is David A. Harrison III Professor of Archaeology at the University of Virginia. Her research explores the contested spaces of the Inka frontier. Alconini is the author of Southeast Inka Frontiers: Boundaries and Interactions.
Contact: sa9bz@virginia.edu
Eduardo Góes Neves is professor of archaeology and director of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo. His research focuses on the archaeology and Indigenous history of the Amazon Basin. Neves is coauthor of Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil.
Contact: edgneves@usp.br
Scholars interested in publishing in the series can send queries to the individual series editors at any time. They can also contact acquisitions editor Mary Puckett at mpuckett@upress.ufl.edu.
Browse some of our books on South American archaeology and anthropology below, now on sale with discount code SAA24.
Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes
Edited by Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss
Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes examines how settlements along South America’s Pacific coastline played a role in the emergence, consolidation, and collapse of Andean civilizations from the Late Pleistocene era through Spanish colonization. Providing the first synthesis of data from Chile, Peru, and Ecuador, this wide-ranging volume evaluates and revises long-standing research on ancient maritime sites across the region.
Southeast Inka Frontiers: Boundaries and Interactions
Sonia Alconini
In this volume, Sonia Alconini examines a part of present-day Bolivia that was once a territory at the edge of the Inka empire. Using extensive field research, Alconini explores the modes of direct contact between the Inkas and eastern tropical lowland populations, a situation often overlooked in studies of the area. This unprecedented study shows how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land in a location hundreds of miles away from the capital city of Cusco and how people on the frontier navigated the cultural and environmental divide that separated the Andes and the Amazon.
Chronicling Amazon Town: Eight Decades of Research and Engagement in Gurupá, Brazil
Edited by Richard Pace and Helena Lima
In Chronicling Amazon Town, Richard Pace and Helena Lima bring together the work of researchers from a variety of fields to provide a comprehensive synthesis of local and regional studies in the town of Gurupá in Brazil, ranging from archaeological findings to ethnohistory and sociocultural anthropology.
Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America
Edited by Dolores Elkin and Christophe Delaere
This volume features a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to underwater and coastal archaeology in Latin America. Showcasing the efforts of 82 researchers working across the region, the case studies in this book point to a long tradition of practices and beliefs related to the exploitation and management of aquatic environments, displaying a wide chronological vision that recognizes the vast and rich precolonial heritage of these waters.
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