Volume 1 530 pages, volume 2 page 533 - 896. Overseas customers please note this is a two volume set and will attract additionalpostage.Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 100. Between 1983 and 1992, the authors conducted an archaeological project that involved five years of survey and excavation in a 450 km² study region that included portions of the high llanos (savanna grasslands) and adjacent Andean piedmont in the state of Barinas, Venezuela. Fieldwork (in 1983-1988) was followed by four years of laboratory analysis in the Departamento de Antropologi´a at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cienti´ficas (IVIC) in Altos de Pipe, state of Miranda. Our project was designed to investigate whether during pre-Hispanic times the study region had witnessed the development of a chiefdom, which we defined as a regional (multivillage) polity led by a paramount chief who ruled from a regional center and presided over a chiefly administration that was centralized but not internally specialized.... Our fieldwork comprised three seasons of regional survey, during the summer months of 1983-1985, followed by two dry seasons (January-May) of excavation in 1986 and 1988. On survey we recorded a total of 103 archaeological sites in our study region that was centered on the Canagua´ River valley, extending across the high llanos (savanna grasslands) and adjacent Andean piedmont. Site occupations pertained to two chronological periods: an early period dating to A.D. 300-1000 and a later period dating to A.D. 1000-1850, taking our coverage into the early historic period. We called the earlier of these occupations on the high llanos the Gava´n complex, divided into the Early Gava´n phase (A.D. 300-550) and the Late Gavaa´n phase (A.D. 550-1000), the latter of which exhibited many of the characteristics consistent with the expected archaeological manifestations of a chiefly society. There was convincing evidence of a regional hierarchy...." (back cover) CONTENTS: Volume 1. Abstract Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Research design Chapter 2. Data structure Chapter 3. Catalog of ceramic illustrations Chapter 4. Ceramics Chapter 5. Surface collections at Gava´n-complex sites Chapter 6. Excavations at B12 (El Gava´n) Volume 2. Chapter 7. Excavations at B97 (Potrero de Eli´as) Chapter 8. Excavations at B26 and B27 Chapter 9. Excavations at B21 (Buenos Aires) Chapter 10. Excavations at B17 (Flor Amarilla) Chapter 11. Conclusions References Appendix A. Gava´n-complex burials / William N. Duncan and Emily L. de Berrizbeitia Appendix B. A trial analysis of use-wear evidence on chipped stone tools / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond Appendix C. Report on pollen samples 54, 114, and 442 / Milagro Rinaldi and Elsa M. Redmond Appendix D. Source identifications of stone artifacts / Ramo´n Sifontes G. and Carlos Schubert Appendix E. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates from Gava´n-complex sites / Charles S. Spencer, Elsa M. Redmond, and Rafael A. Gasso´n Appendix F. Analysis of misfired sherds and kiln wasters from B12, B21, and B97 / Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond Appendix G. Macrobotanical remains from Gava´n-complex sites / Rene´e M. Bonzani. Contributors: Duncan, William N., ; Berrizbeitia, Emily L. de,;Sifontes G., Ramo´n, Schubert, Carlos, Gasso´n, Rafael;Rinaldi, Milagro, Bonzani, Rene´e M.,