book chapter
Lukurmata: household archaeology in prehispanic Bolivia
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.J. • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: Bermann, Marc.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Marc Bermann examines the domestic remains from excavations he conducted at Lukurmata, Bolivia. He uses domestic remains to examine societal change at the household, local, and regional levels and to understand how the rise of Tiwanaku affected Lukurmata from 200 B.C. to A.D. 1000. The environment, climate, and natural setting found around Lukurmata are explored. Then the domestic remains found inside and outside a series of house floors are described. The domestic remains indicate that Lukurmata traditions persisted after the rise of Tiwanaku to power. In fact, not all the changes in the domestic remains were the result of interaction with Tiwanaku. Tiwanaku's influence on Lukurmata and Lukurmata's incorporation into Tiwanaku's political sphere were more gradual than one would expect from examining only monumental architecture or Tiwanaku-style ceramics, the traditional subjects of study. Bermann shows that small sites can give us prehistories not biased toward the actions and concerns of rulers and elites. He also argues that when different aspects of domestic remains are examined separately (ceramics, domestic architecture, etc.) they each provide a different picture os societal change. So it is important to integrate the data from household remains, middens, mortuary remains, and public architecture to achieve a meaningful picture of change in prehistoric societies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Reviews and critiques
- Sociocultural trends
- Ceramic technology
- Dwellings
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Visual arts
- Household
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Andean Regional Development
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marc Bermann
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-303)
- Only pages 42-148 and 236-303 are included
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93023366
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities