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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Crossing Frontiers: Perspectives from the Various Disciplines. 1.1 Archaeology ; 1.2 Linguistics ; 1.3 Genetics ; 1.4 Anthropology ; 1.5 The Andes-Amazonia Culture Area -- Part 2: Deep Time and the Long Chronological Perspective. 2.1 Initial East and West Connections across South America ; 2.2 The Andes-Amazonia Divide and Human Morphological Diversification in South America ; 2.3 Deep Time and First Settlement: What, If Anything, Can Linguistics Tell Us? ; 2.4 Early Social Complexity in Northern Peru and its Amazonian Connections ; 2.5 Changing Andes-Amazonia Dynamics: El Chuncho Meets El Inca at the End of the Marañón Corridor -- Part 3: Overall Patterns - and Alternative Models. 3.1 How Real is the Andes-Amazonia Divide? An Archaeological View from the Eastern Piedmont ; 3.2 Genetic Diversity Patterns in the Andes and Amazonia ; 3.3 Genetic Exchanges in the Highland /Lowland Transitional Environments of South America ; 3.4 Broad-Scale Patterns Across the Languages of the Andes and Amazonia ; 3.5 Highland-Lowland Relations: A Linguistic View ; 3.6 Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Language Expansion for Ancient Amazonians ; 3.7 The Pacific Coast and Andean Highlands/Amazonia -- Part 4: Regional Case Studies from the Altiplano and Southern Upper Amazonia. 4.1 Linguistic Connections between the Altiplano Region and the Amazonian Lowlands ; 4.2 Hypothesised Language Relationships across the Andes-Amazonia Divide: The Cases of Uro, Pano-Takana and Mosetén ; 4.3 The Andes as Seen From Mojos ; 4.4 The Archaeological Significance of Shell Middens in the Llanos de Moxos: Between the Andes and Amazonia -- Part 5: Age of Empires: Inca and Spanish Colonial Perspectives. 5.1 The Amazonian Indians as Viewed by Three Andean Chroniclers ; 5.2 The Place of Antisuyu in the Discourse of Guamán Poma de Ayala ; 5.3 Colonial Coda: The Andes-Amazonia Frontier under Spanish Rule ; 5.4 A Case Study in Andes-Amazonia Relations under Colonial Rule: The Juan Santos Atahualpa Rebellion (1742-1752) -- Conclusion: The Andes-Amazonia Divide: Myth and Reality.

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