Un nuevo libro sobre la arqueología del Ecuador ha sido publicado en español en Quito en Diciembre del 2012. “Upano precolombino” es un libro de divulgación realizado por Stéphen Rostain que presenta el pasado del valle del Upano con numerosas ilustraciones originales (fotografías de campo y de estudio, dibujos, pinturas). Este libro ha sido publicado por el Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia (IPGH) y REPSOL.

RESUMEN
Hasta hace no muchos años se conocía poco sobre las poblaciones precolombinas amazónicas. A partir de las nuevas informaciones obtenidas durante una reciente investigación arqueológica en el valle del Upano se describe la historia humana y las actividades de los habitantes de esta región. Este libro presenta la ocupación humana del valle desde hace 2500 años hasta hoy. A partir de 700 a. C., poblaciones de la cultura Upano ocuparon el valle y edificaron montículos de tierra. Huyeron entre 300 y 500 d. C., después de una fuerte erupción del volcán Sangay. De 700 hasta 1200 d. C., grupos de la cultura Huapula se instalaron sobre los montículos. Luego llegaron los Shuar. Durante el siglo XX, la región fue colonizada poco a poco por mestizos. Recientemente, los arqueólogos llegaron.

EL AUTOR
Stéphen Rostain es Doctor en Arqueología (Universidad de Panteón-Sorbona de París, Francia) y director de investigación en el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas (CNRS) de Francia. Está actualmente el representante del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos en el Ecuador (IFEA) y es miembro activo del Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia.
Desde hace 16 años, el autor estudia los sitios precolombinos excepcionales del valle del Upano.

Stéphen Rostain’s book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human modification of the wetlands environnement of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of ancient settlement in lowland South America and other tropical zones. Rostain demonstrates that populations were capable of developing intensive raised-field agriculture, which supported significant human density, and construct causeways, habitation mounds, canals, and reservoirs to meet their needs. The work is comparative in every sense, drawing on ethnology, ethnohistory, ecology, and geography; contrasting island Guiana with other wetland regions around the world; and examining millennia of pre-Columbian settlement and colonial occupation alike. Rostain’s work demands a radical rethinking of conventional wisdom about settlement in tropical lowlands and landscape management by its inhabitants over the course of millennia.

Source: Left Coast Press

Announcing new volume

The Past Ahead: Language, Culture, and Identity in the Neotropics, Edited by Christian Isendahl, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2012.

In Andean cognition the embodiment of the past is different from many other ways to spatially relate the position of the body to time. This epistemology is for instance expressed in the Quechua word ñawpa, which signifies that the past is 'in front of us;' it is known and can be seen. Seeing and knowing the past in this way reverberates within the historical ecological argument that the present is contingent with the past and is explicitly reflected within the contributions to this volume. 'The Past Ahead: Language, Culture, and Identity in the Neotropics' forms a collection of reworked papers originally presented in shorter format by archaeologists, anthropologists, and linguists at the research symposium 'Archaeology and Society in Bolivia' organized at Uppsala University by the editor. The volume includes chapters by Jan-Åke Alvarsson, Lisbet Bengtsson, Roger Blench, Sergio Calla, Christian Isendahl, Carla Jaimes, John Janusek, Adriana Muñoz, Heiko Prümers, Walter Sánchez, Per Stenborg, Juan Marcelo Ticona, and Charlotta Widmark examining a series of different aspects of agriculture, complex societies, identities, landscape, languages, and urbanism in the highland and lowland Neotropics that all highlight the significance of the past in the present.

"How can historical ecology deepen our knowledge of both the past and the future? Memories are always in front of us: they are stored in speech, body rhythms, urban forms, networks of passage, landscapes of labor. In the tradition of De Landa, this important book offers a compelling vision of nonlinear time in a rich neotropical setting."
-Carole L. Crumley, University of North Carolina

"With a focus on highland and lowland Bolivian archaeology and ethnography this edited volume is a must read for anyone interested in the historical ecology of the Neotropics."
-William I. Woods, University of Kansas

For more info or order details of hard copy (not sure of price but probably lower than postage) or pdf (free) please contact the editor at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce the arrival of Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas, edited by Joanne Pillsbury.

Illustrations remain one of the fundamental tools of archaeology, a means by which we share information and build ideas. Often treated as if they were neutral representations, archaeological illustrations are the convergence of science and the imagination. This volume, a collection of fourteen essays addressing the visual presentation of the Pre-Columbian past from the fifteenth century to the present day, explores and contextualizes the visual culture of archaeological illustration, addressing the intellectual history of the field, and the relationship of archaeological illustration to other scientific disciplines and the fine arts. One of the principal questions raised by this volume is how do archaeological illustrations, which are organizing complex sets of information, shape the construction of knowledge? These visual and conceptual constructions warrant closer scrutiny: they matter, they shape our thinking. Archaeological illustrations are a mediation of vision and ideas, and the chapters in this volume consider how visual languages are created and how they become institutionalized. Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas is about the ways in which representations illuminate the concerns and possibilities of a specific time and place and how these representations, in turn, shaped the field of archaeology.

October 2012, hardcover, ISBN 978-088402-380-7, $65.00 Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas can be ordered through Harvard University Press: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884023807

José Echeverría Almeida (editor) y la FLACSO, tienen el honor de invitar a Usted (es) a la presentación de la obra:

BETTY J. MEGGERS

SETENTA Y CINCO AÑOS DE TRAYACTORIA EXITOSA EN LA ARQUEOLOGIA SUDAMERICANA

Fecha: 15 de noviembre de 2012

Hora: 17h30

Lugar: edificio principal de la FLACSO (calle La Pradera E7-174 y Av. Diego de Almagro. Torre 1, Subsuelo 1, sala 1)

Su presencia dará realce a este acto académico.

Hoy, 19 de octubre de 2012, empezamos a colocar en línea los primeros diez números de la revista Arqueología y Sociedad. Nuestro objetivo, poner a su disposición las publicaciones que ha realizado el Museo a lo largo de su existencia y que no es posible encontrarlas en ferias, librerías o bibliotecas. Esta labor se hará por etapas pues el material es inmenso, variado y no existe suficiente personal para tamaña tarea. Nos anima siempre que la información encuentre al alcance de la mayoría, como fue el deseo del fundador del Museo, Julio C. Tello.

Ingrese a: http://museoarqueologiasanmarcos.blogspot.com/

For a couple of years, the Consejo Nacional de Cultura (CNC) restart the publication of their Revista Nacional de Cultura, a publication that has become a reference in the field of editions dedicated to heritage and social sciences.

The numbers 15 and 16 of this publication are devoted to publishing the proceedings of the III Ecuadorian Congress of Anthropology and Archaeology, held in Guayaquil, from 6 to 10 October 2008. The scale of such a project has led to the CNC to edit three volumes containing a miscellany of the current state of archaeological and anthropological studies in the region.

Revista Nacional de Cultura, edition of the Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 772 pp., 2012.

Contributions are now being considered for Andean Past 11, the next volume in the series to be published. We have two formats:

Peer reviewed articles – these are flexible in both length and number of illustrations. All receive strict editorial and peer review. There is no fixed deadline. If work is received too late to be considered for Andean Past 11, it will be considered for Andean Past 12. Please note that we have no backlog of articles, but we accept well under one-half of articles submitted. Articles written in Spanish will be translated into English, if accepted, at no cost to the author.

For detailed advice on the preparation of papers for submission to Andean Past contact Monica Barnes ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Dan Sandweiss ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) .

Research reports – these are short reports on current fieldwork, or laboratory, archival, or collections research, or reports on old, but unpublished, research. Research reports are subject to editorial review only. For details contact Monica or Dan.

The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. is currently accepting registrations for its 19^th annual symposium, The World Around Them: How Pre-Columbian Societies Created Their Cultural Landscapes. The symposium will take place in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2012.

In a year when much attention is being given to ancient American notions of time, noted scholars will explore other equally important aspects of the pre-Columbian world--how Mesoamerican and Andean societies manipulated their environments to communicate and reinforce ideas about social organization, political power, and cosmic order. Addressing this topic will be Wendy Ashmore, University of California at Riverside (moderator); David Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School; Clark Erickson, University of Pennsylvania; Jean-Pierre Protzen, University of California at Berkeley; Heather Richards-Rissetto, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy, and Juliet Wiersema, University of Texas, San Antonio.

On-line registration is possible and encouraged. For details and registration information, please go to the Pre-Columbian Society's website: www.pcswdc.org.

FLACSO Sede Ecuador, su área de Humanidades, y la Embajada de Italia en Ecuador tienen el agrado de invitar a usted al Coloquio sobre el libro:

EXPEDICIÓN ÍTALO-ECUATORIANA BOSCHETTI-ANDRADE MARÍN, VIAJE A LAS MISTERIOSAS MONTAÑAS DE LLANGANATI 1933-1934, DE LUCIANO ANDRADE MARIN.

Con la participación de: Tamara Estupiñán (Investigadora del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos - IFEA); Theofilos Toulkeridis (Geólogo, profesor investigador de la Escuela Politécnica del Ejército); Alfonso Ortíiz (Editor general de la edición); Lisbeth Boschetti (Escritora, idea original de la edición)

Moderador: Carlos Espinosa, profesor investigador FLACSO Ecuador

Fecha: Jueves, 5 de julio de 2012

Hora: 18h30

Lugar: Auditorio No. 2, Biblioteca FLACSO

Dirección: San Salvador E7-42 y La Pradera

Edited by Paul Heggarty, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and David Beresford-Jones, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and University of Cambridge

The Andes are of unquestioned significance to the human story: a cradle of agriculture and of 'pristine' civilisation with a pedigree of millennia. The Incas were but the culmination of a succession of civilisations that rose and fell to leave one of the richest archaeological records on Earth. By no coincidence, the Andes are home also to our greatest surviving link to the speech of the New World before European conquest: the Quechua language family. For linguists, the native tongues of the Andes make for another rich seam of data on origins, expansions and reversals throughout prehistory. Historians and anthropologists, meanwhile, negotiate many pitfalls to interpret the conflicting mytho-histories of the Andes, recorded for us only through the distorting prism of the conquistadorsí world-view.

Each of these disciplines opens up its own partial window on the past: very different perspectives, to be sure, but all the more complementary for it. Frustratingly though, specialists in each field have all too long proceeded largely in ignorance of great strides being taken in the others. This book is a long overdue meeting of minds, bringing together a worldwide cast of pre-eminent scholars from each discipline. Here they at last converge their disparate perspectives into a true cross-disciplinary focus, to weave together a more coherent account of what was, after all, one and the same prehistory.

The result, instructive also far beyond the Andes, is a rich case-study in the pursuit of a more holistic vision of the human past. Proceedings of the British Academy No. 173

May 2012 | 440 pages | Hardback 978-0-19-726503-1 | £90.00 £72.00 | $160.00 $128.00

• Contributors are leading worldwide specialists in Andean prehistory
• Comprehensive in scope: all key aspects of archaeological and linguistic prehistory in the Andes
• Sets the Andean case into the broader context of how to correlate archaeology and linguistics worldwide
• Contributors: Willem Adelaar, David Beresford-Jones, Richard Burger, Rodolfo CerrÛn-Palomino, Elizabeth DeMarrais, Paul Heggarty, Anne-Marie Hocquenghem, William H. Isbell, Peter Kaulicke, George F. Lau, Gordon McEwan, Pieter Muysken, Colin Renfrew, Bill Sillar, Gary Urton

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The book has two companion volumes:

History and Language in the Andes edited by P. Heggarty and A. Pearce (London: Palgrave Macmillan).
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=397842

Lenguas y sociedades en el antiguo Perú: hacia un enfoque interdisciplinario edited by P. Kaulicke, R. Cerrón-Palomino, P. Heggarty and D. Beresford-Jones (Boletín de Arqueología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 14, Lima).
http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia

Dr David Beresford-Jones,
Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
University of Cambridge,
Downing Street, Cambridge,
CB2 3ER, UK.