| 期刊全称 | Andean Archaeology I | | 期刊简称 | Variations in Sociop | | 影响因子2023 | William H. Isbell,Helaine Silverman | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Focuses on material remains, since there was no written language, to reveal social structures of the Andean region.Interprets the processes and strategies by which the elites in theis prehistoric cult | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage knowledge, or are they the result of real constraints on and variations in the actual processes? Can such questions even be answered? We believe so, but not easily. By comparing evolutionary sequences from different world civilizations scholars can judge degrees of similarity and difference and then attempt explanation. Of course, we must be careful to assess the influence that societies of the ancient world had on one another (the issue of pristine versus non-pristine cultural devel opment: see discussion in Fried 1967; Price 1978). The Central Andes were the locus of the only societies to achieve pristine civilization in the southern hemi sphere and only in the Central Andes did non-literate (non-written language) civ ilization develop. It seems clear that Central Andean civilization was independent on any graph of archaic culture ch | | Pindex | Book 2002 |
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