The Upper Amazon

Thames and Hudson

1970

256 p.

Ancient Peoples and Places ; vol. 70

I. Introduction -- II. The Upper Amazon as a setting for cultural development -- The river system of the Amazon Basin -- The vegetation cover -- The fauna of the tropical forest -- The soils and their agricultural potential -- III. Tropical forest culture -- The definition of tropical forest culture -- The nature of the tropical forest agricultural system -- Technological aspects of tropical forest culture -- The origin of tropical forest culture -- IV. Languages of the Upper Amazon: Clues to past migrations and ancient demography -- The Arawakan stock -- Tupi-Guaranian -- Panoan and its affinities -- Ge and Cariban -- Equatorial -- V. The early tropical forest cultures of the Upper Amazon -- Early Tutishcainyo -- Late Tutishcainyo -- Shakimu -- The Alto Pachitea -- The Cave of the Owls -- The Huanuco Basin -- The bend of the Maranon -- Ecuador -- The more distant cultural relationships of the early tropical forest culture of the Upper Amazon -- VI. The Barrancoid peoples and their migrations -- Northern Barrancoid -- Hupa-iya -- Barrancoid styles of the Central Amazon -- Naranjal and the modern Campa -- Eastern Bolivia and the Upper Xingu -- Summary -- VII. Displaced persons -- Yarinacocha -- Pacacocha -- Enoqui and the modern Amuesha -- VIII. Further invasions of the Ucayali Basin -- Cumancaya -- Caimito, Napo, and the Polychrome tradition -- IX. Ridged fields -- X. The Carib expansion out of the Amazon Basin -- XI. Terracing and the Eastern slopes of the Andes -- XII. The present ethnographic picture of the Ucayali Basin -- The Shipibo and Conibo -- The Cocama -- The Panoan-speaking tribes of the forest.

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