Justin Jennings

This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally.

Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences.

Wari culture and its influence in Andean prehistory is investigated here from a variety of geographic locales.

For more than two thousand years, drinking has played a critical role in Andean societies. This collection provides a unique look at the history, ethnography, and archaeology of one of the most important traditional indigenous commodities in Andean South America—fermented plant beverages collectively known as chicha.

Providing a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years.