Justin Jennings
Justin Jennings is the curator of Latin American archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. His recent books include Beyond Wari Walls: Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru (UNM Press), Tenahaha and the Wari State: A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley, and Globalizations and the Ancient World.
Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes
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.
Beyond Wari Walls
Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru
Wari culture and its influence in Andean prehistory is investigated here from a variety of geographic locales.
- Copyright year: 2010
Tenahaha and the Wari State
A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley
- Copyright year: 2015
Killing Civilization
A Reassessment of Early Urbanism and Its Consequences
Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences.
- Copyright year: 2016
Powerful Places in the Ancient Andes
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.
- Copyright year: 2018
Finding Fairness
From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists
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.
Quilcapampa
A Wari Enclave in Southern Peru
- Copyright year: 2021