Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jane C. Wheeler
  • Preceramic archaeobotany of Huaca Prieta: investigations from 1946 to 1986 / Robert McK. Bird
  • Preceramic animal use at Huaca Prieta / Diana G. Matthiesen
  • Preceramic animal use on the central coast / Elizabeth J. Reitz
  • Preceramic to early formative subsistence on the central coast / Glendon H. Weir, Robert A. Benfer, and John G. Jones
  • Late preceramic through early horizon subsistence in the Casma Valley / Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski
  • The fishermen of Chincha: occupational specialization on the late prehispanic Andean coast / Daniel H. Sandweiss
  • Marine food sources for prehistoric coastal Peruvian camelids: evidence and implications / Michael J. DeNiro
  • Prehistoric subsistence in the north highlands of Peru: early horizon to late intermediate / Melody Shimada
  • Piruru: a preliminary report on the archaeological botany of a highland Andean site / Elisabeth Bonnier and Lawrence Kaplan
  • Hunting and herding economies on the Junin puna / Katherine M. Moore
  • Use of animals by the Inca as seen at Huanuco Pampa / Elizabeth S. Wing.