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The upper Amazon [by] Donald W. Lathrap

Catalog Data

Author:
Lathrap, Donald W (Donald Ward) 1927-1990  Search this
Physical description:
256 p illustrations, maps 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Amazon River Valley
Amazonie
Date:
1970
Notes:
Copy 1 (STRI) 7922.
NMAI copy 39088010271096 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Library of David Guillet.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Introduction -- Pt. 2. Upper Amazon as a setting for cultural development -- Pt. 3. Tropical forest culture -- Pt. 4. Languages of the Upper Amazon : clues to past migration and ancient demography -- Pt. 5. Early tropical forest cultures of the Upper Amazon -- Pt. 6. The Barrancoid peoples and their migration -- Pt.7. Displaced persons -- Pt. 8. Further invasions of the Ucayali Basin -- Pt. 9. Ridged fields -- Pt. 10. The Carib expansion out of the Amazon Basin -- Terracing and the eastern slopes of the Andes -- The present ethnographic picture of the Ucayali Basin
Topic:
Peuples autochtones  Search this
Indians of South America  Search this
Call number:
F2519.1.A6 L34
F2519.1.A6L34
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_11964