Carmichael calls this the Nasca Maritime Hypothesis. In the 1980s, researchers postulated that the Nasca culture of the Early Intermediate Period was a state-level society based on inland agriculture, heavily augmented by aquatic foodstuffs gathered and processed at coastal settlements. Maritime resources played a significant economic role in the prehistoric coastal communities of Central and Northern Peru, and, prior to the current study, it was reasonable to assume they were equally important on the South Coast. Arnold "Alfred Kidder II in the Development of American Archaeology a Biographical and Contextual View" by Karen L. Sutter "Early Inca Expansion and the Incorporation of Local Groups: Ethnohistory and Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Region of Acos, Department of Cusco, Peru" by Dean E. Conlee "The Prehistoric Peopling of South America as Inferred from Epigenetic Dental Traits" by Richard C. Cook and Nancy Parrish "Regional Autonomy during the Late Prehispanic Period: an Analysis of Ceramics from the Nasca Drainage" by Christina A. Knobloch "Gardens in the Desert: archaeobotanical Analysis from the Lower Ica Valley, Peru" by Anita G. Glascock Monkey Saw, Monkey Did: a Stylization Model for Correlating Nasca and Wari Chronology" by Patricia J. Donnan "Early Paracas Cultural Contexts: New Evidence from Callango" by Lisa DeLeonardis "New Studies on the Settlements and Geoglyphs in Palpa, Peru" by Johny Isla and Markus Reindel "Exchange of Quispisisa Obsidian in Nasca: New evidence from Marcaya" by Kevin J. "Francis Allen (Fritz) Riddell (1921-2002) by Jonathan Kent "Susana Meneses de Alva (1948-2002)" by Christopher B. Sandweiss "Frederic-Andre Engel (1980-2002)" by Robert A.
This volume contains the following articles and obituaries: "Editor's Preface" by Daniel H.