Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia divide :  a cross-disciplinary exploration / 
edited by Adrian J. Pearce, David G. Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations, maps. 
<br/><br/> This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>London : <br/>UCL Press, <br/>2020. <br/>Available in PDF format. <br/>Description based on contents viewed 30 October 2020. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781787357358 9781787357532 9781787357594 9781787357419 9781787357471 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Andes Region--Civilization<br/>Andes Region--History.<br/>Amazon River Region--Civilization<br/>Amazon River Region--History.