Table of Contents

Introduction to Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-I (Charles Stanish and Amanda B Cohen); Archaic period research in the Rio Huenque Valley, Peru (Cynthia J Klink); A projectile point chronology for the south-central Andean highlands (Cynthia Klink and Mark Aldenderfer); Preceramic period settlement patterns in the Huancano-Putina River Valley, Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru (Lisa M. Cipolla); The Upper (Middle and Late) Formative in the Titicaca Region (Christine A Hastorf); Pukara influence on Isla Soto, Lake Titicaca, Peru (Joel Myres and Rolando Paredes); Tiwanaku expansion into the western Titicaca Basin, Peru (Charles Stanish et al); Excavations at Sillumocco-Huaquina (Edmundo de la Vega); The Tiwanaku period occupation on the Island of the Sun (Matthew T Seddon); Residential diversity and the rise of complexity in Tiwanaku (John W Janusek); The Altiplano period in the Titicaca Basin (Kirk L Frye and Edmundo de la Vega); The cave burial from Molino-Chilacachi (Edmundo de la Vega, Kirk L Frye, and Tiffiny Tung); The Inca occupation of the Lake Titicaca region (Kirk L Frye); Inka ceremonial sites in the southwest Titicaca Basin (Elizabeth Arkush); Archaeological reconnaissance in the Carabaya region, Peru (Lawrence S Coben and Charles Stanish); Settlement patterns, administrative boundaries, and internal migration in the Early Colonial period (Matthew S Bandy and John W Janusek); Archaeological reconnaissance in the northern Titicaca Basin (Charles Stanish et al); Future directions in Titicaca Basin research (Amanda B Cohen).

About the Author

Charles Stanish has worked in the Titicaca region for over 25 years in both Bolivia and Peru. He holds the Lloyd Cotsen Chair in Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Amanda B. Cohen received her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mark S. Aldenderfer is dean and professor of social sciences, humanities, and arts at the University of California, Merced.