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Late Preceramic ceremonial architecture at Asana, southern Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark S. Aldenderfer
Mark S. Aldenderfer*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA
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Abstract

Ceremonial architecture over 4600 years old has been discovered at the open air site of Asana in the high sierra of southern Peru – the best part of a thousand years earlier than in the central Andean sierra and with different architectural detail, form and content. This discovery provides new insights into a new regional architectural tradition and an alternative trajectory for the evolution of settled village life in the Andean highlands

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 244 , September 1990 , pp. 479 - 493
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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