Recent advances in the archaeology of the northern Andes : in memory of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff / edited by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and J. Scott Raymond.

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Contenido: Evidence of Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene occupations in the tropical lowlands of the middle Magdalena Valley / Carlos López -- Beginnings of sedentism in the lowlands of northwestern South America / J. Scott Raymond -- Learning from the present: constraints of plant seasonality on foragers and collectors / Renee M. Bonzani -- Ideology, temples, and priests: change and continuity in house societies in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta / Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo -- Mortuary tradition and leadership: a Muisca case from the Valle de Samacá, Colombia / Ana Maria Boada Rivas -- Prestige and wealth in chiefdom-level societies: a comparison between two satellite polities on the peripheries of San Agustín and Moundville / Jeffrey P. Blick -- Pre-Columbian roads in Calima: a means of communication among the polities of southwestern Colombia, 500 BC to AD500 / Marianne Cardale Schrimpff -- Cupica (Chocó): a reassessment of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff's fieldwork in a poorly studied region of the American tropics / Richard Cooke -- Shamanistic elements in a terminal Valdivia burial, northern Manabí, Ecuador: implications for mortuary symbolism and social ranking / James A. Zeidler, Peter Stahl, and Marie J. Sutlif -- Figuring figurines: the case of the Chachi, Ecuador / Warren DeBoer -- The spectacled bear in iconic imagery of ancient Panama and Colombia / Mary W. Helms.