Colleagues and former students honor the work of fellow archaeologist Moseley by moving in on his specialty, prehistoric peoples in the Andes Mountains of South America. Their topics include prehistoric population dynamics in the Andes, Quebrada Tacahuay and early maritime foundations on Peru's far southern coast, early agriculture in the coastal Peru's Osmore Valley, the Tiwanaku occupation of the northern Titicaca Basic, the Moche use of numbers and number sets, settlement patterns in the Huamachuco area, diasporas within the ancient state, Chimú statecraft in the provinces, Inka agricultural intensification in the imperial heartland and provinces, and volcanoes and the Spanish colonial wine industry. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)