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Wari Empire Bibliography

Bibliography of the Wari Empire

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Wari Figurine, Peru

Wari Figurine, Peru

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This bibliography of the Wari Empire is part of the Guide to the Wari Empire and one of several Topic Bibliographies.

Burger, Richard L., Karen L. M. Chávez, and Chávez Sergio J 2000 Through the Glass Darkly: Prehispanic Obsidian Procurement and Exchange in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia. Journal of World Prehistory 14(3):267-362.

Conklin, Beth 1997 Consuming images: Representations of cannibalism on the Amazonian frontier. Anthropological Quarterly 70(2):68-78.

Finucane, Brian, Patricia M. Agurto, and William H. Isbell 2006 Human and animal diet at Conchopata, Peru: stable isotope evidence for maize agriculture and animal management practices during the Middle Horizon. Journal of Archaeological Science 331766-1776.

Glowacki, Mary 2005 Food of the Gods or mere mortals? Hallucinogenic Spondylus and its interpretive implications for early Andean society. Antiquity 79(304):257-268.

Isbell, William H. 2004 Mortuary Preferences: A Wari Culture Case Study from Middle Horizon Peru. Latin American Antiquity 15(1):3-32.

Isbell, William H. and Katharina J. Schreiber 1978 Was Huari a state? American Antiquity 43(3):372-389.

Jennings, Justin 2006 Core, peripheries, and regional realities in Middle Horizon Peru. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25:346–370.

Jennings, Justin and Nathan Craig 2001 Politywide Analysis and Imperial Political Economy: The Relationship between Valley Political Complexity and Administrative Centers in the Wari Empire of the Central Andes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20(4):479-502.

Kellner, Corina M. and Margaret J. Schoeninger 2008 Wari's imperial influence on local Nasca diet: The stable isotope evidence. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(2):226-243.

McEwan, Gordon F. 1998 The function of niched halls in Wari architecture. Latin American Antiquity 9(1):68-86.

Nichols, Deborah L., R. A. Covey, and Kamyar Abdia 2008 Rise of civilization and urbanism. Pp. 1003-1015 in Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed. D.M. Pearsall. Elsevier: London.

Shady, Ruth and Arturo Ruiz 1979 Evidence for interregional relatinships during the Middle Horizon on the north-central coast of Peru. American Antiquity 44(4):676-684.

Slovak, Nicole M., Adina Paytan, and Bettina A. Wiegand 2009. Reconstructing Middle Horizon mobility patterns on the coast of Peru through strontium isotope analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 36(1):157-165.

Topic, John R. 2003 From Stewards to Bureaucrats: Architecture and Information Flow at Chan Chan, Peru. Latin American Antiquity 14(3):243-274.

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