This book focuses on South American archaeology and its contributions to the broader global archaeological discussion in theory, methods and new interpretations

South America is still the least known continent in the world. Isolated for all of prehistory and much of its history, it is quite alien to the average European

Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably beca

A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archa

This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by academics native to the region,