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Comment on the Functions and Husbandry of Alpaca

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Melody Shimada  and
Izumi Shimada
Melody Shimada
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Izumi Shimada
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

This brief note points out two problems in the comment by Topic et al.: the assumption that alpaca were valued only for their wool, and the questionable application of ethnographic and Inkaic husbandry models in culturally and environmentally different settings. Important to resolving these and other problems is improvement of our ability to differentiate alpaca and llama from preserved and sampled osteological and fiber remains.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 836 - 839
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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