Regional Patterns -- The North -- America's First City? The Case of Late Archaic Caral -- Religious Warfare at Chankillo -- The Vicús-Mochica Relationship -- Competitive Feasting, Religious Pluralism and Decentralized Power in the Late Moche Period -- Northern Exposures: Recuay-Cajamarca Boundaries and Interaction -- Chimu Craft Specialization and Political Economy: A View from the Provinces -- The South -- Early Village Society in the Formative Period in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin -- The Emergence of Complex Society in the Titicaca Basin: The View from the North -- Redefining Plant Use at the Formative Site of Chiripa in the Southern Titicaca Basin -- Ritual and Society in Early Intermediate Period Ayacucho: A View From the Site of Ñawinpukyo -- Missing Links, Imaginary Links: Staff God Imagery in the South Andean Past -- Water, Blood and Semen: Signs of Life and Fertility in Nasca Art -- Burial Patterns and Sociopolitical Organization in Nasca 5 Society -- When and Where Did the Nasca Proliferous Style Emerge? -- Violence and Rural Lifeways at Two Peripheral Wari Sites in the Majes Valley of Southern Peru -- Suspension Bridges of the Inca Empire -- Conclusion -- Rethinking the Central Andean Co-Tradition.

This book is intended to continue the dynamic, current problem-oriented approach to the field of Andean Archaeology that started with Andean Archaeology I and Andean Archaeology II. In this volume, the strong cultural differences between northern and southern regions of the Central Andes are examined and the conditions under which these differences evolved are explored. Andean Archaeology III combines up-to-date research, diverse theoretical platforms, and far-reaching interpretations.