Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 342
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-5381-0236-7 • Hardback • March 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-5381-0237-4 • eBook • March 2018 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Martin Giesso is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Dr. Giesso is a member of the International Association of Obsidian Studies, the Society for American Archaeology, and AAPRA (Asociación de Arqueólogos Profesionales de la República Argentina). He is currently active in research on long-distance circulation of goods in central Argentina, central Chile, and in the highlands of Bolivia.
Foreword by the Series Editor (Jon Woronoff)
Acknowledgments
Map
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendix 1: Museums
Appendix 2: Research Institutions
Appendix 3: Series and Journals
Bibliography
About the Author
At last a new edition of Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America. The first edition, published in 2008, has been out of print for some time, and since much has happened archaeologically since 2008, a new edition is welcome. The chronology in this edition begins as the earlier chronology did: "Sometime before 13,000 BC: First Humans Enter South America"—a concept that researchers on the northern part of the continent find impossible to believe. Of course there is no thought as to where these humans came from or how they got to the very tip of South America at such an early time, but there is proof of them being there. There are entries on just about any topic one could think of, and all are concise and well written. One of the three appendixes lists research institutions of interest by country, and there is an excellent bibliography by topic and source type. This will be an invaluable tool for those researching topics (especially in archaeology) dealing with ancient life in South America.
Summing Up: Essential. All readers.
— Choice Reviews