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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transforming Foods in the Ancient Andes / Blom, Alfonso-Durruty, and deFrance
Part I. The Impact of Place and Long-Distance Interactions on Foodways
1. The Environmental Null: Documenting the Changing Influence of Physical and Social Environments on Prehistoric Andean Diets / Wilson and McCool
2. What Is Cooking in the Pots of the Chiloé Archipelago? Plant Use Trajectories Through Ceramic Residue Analysis / Belmar et al
3. Eating Local, Drinking Imported: Chicha Recipes, Emulative Desire, and Identity Formation at Atalla, Huancavelica, Peru / Weber and Young
4. Eating from the Earth on the Shores of Lake Titicaca: A Multimethod Approach to Understanding the Diets of Taraco Peninsula Inhabitants / Miller et al
Part II. Food, Power, and Status in Early States and Empires
5. Transforming Food in the Tiwanaku Heartland: Maize and the Rise and Fall of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin / Berryman and Blom
6. Paleodiet Outside of the Tiwanaku Heartland: Isotopic Analysis of Individuals Buried at Tiwanaku-Affiliated Sites in the Moquegua Valley, Peru / Knudson et al
7. Private Dinners and Public Feasts: Food as Political Action in Middle Horizon Cusco / Bélisle, Alaica, and Brown
8. Extraordinary Meals in the Wari Empire: Zooarchaeological and Paleoethnobotanical Evidence from the Site of Quilcapampa La Antigua / Biwer, Alaica, and Quiñonez Cuzcano
Part III. Food During Times of Trouble: Conflict, Instability, and Collapse
9. Maize as a Marker: An Isotopic Perspective on Childhood Diets and the Constitutive Power of Food in the Lower Majes Valley, Peru / Scaffidi, Vang, and Tung
10. Diasporic Foodways and the Transformation of Andean Agropastoralism in the Wake of Tiwanaku Collapse (11th–12th Century CE) at Los Batanes, Sama Valley / Baitzel et al
11. Inside the Moche House: Uncovering Peasant Foodways in the Andean Past / Chiou
12. Camelids in the Oasis: New Evidence from the Pica 8 Cemetery, Atacama Desert, Northern Chile(AD 900–1450) / Santana-Sagredo
Part IV. Building the Inka Empire with Sacred and High-Status Foods
13. The Dietary Impact of the Inka’s Political Strategies in the Semi-Arid Region (30°–31° S. Lat) of Northern Chile / Alfonso-Durruty, Misarti, and Troncoso
14. Inka Kallawayas: Cuisine, Identity, and Status Negotiations in the Eastern Antisuyu Chuncho Margins / Alconini
15. The Vital Matter of Food / Bray
Part V. Future Directions and Conclusion
16. Foods, Diets, and Cuisines in the Andes: Some Concluding Thoughts / deFrance
Contributors
Index