First in a series of edited volumes that reports on recent research in the south central Andes. Volume I contains 18 chapters that cover the entire range of human settlement in the region, from the Early Archaic to the early Colonial Period. A critical resource for scholars working in the central Andes and adjacent areas.

Introduction to Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-I (Charles Stanish and Amanda B Cohen); Archaic period research in the Rio Huenque Valley, Peru (Cynthia J Klink); A projectile point chronology for the south-central Andean highlands (Cynthia Klink and Mark Aldenderfer); Preceramic period settlement patterns in the Huancano-Putina River Valley, Northern Titicaca Basin, Peru (Lisa M. Cipolla); The Upper (Middle and Late) Formative in the Titicaca Region (Christine A Hastorf); Pukara influence on Isla Soto, Lake Titicaca, Peru (Joel Myres and Rolando Paredes); Tiwanaku expansion into the western Titicaca Basin, Peru (Charles Stanish et al); Excavations at Sillumocco-Huaquina (Edmundo de la Vega); The Tiwanaku period occupation on the Island of the Sun (Matthew T Seddon); Residential diversity and the rise of complexity in Tiwanaku (John W Janusek); The Altiplano period in the Titicaca Basin (Kirk L Frye and Edmundo de la Vega); The cave burial from Molino-Chilacachi (Edmundo de la Vega, Kirk L Frye, and Tiffiny Tung); The Inca occupation of the Lake Titicaca region (Kirk L Frye); Inka ceremonial sites in the southwest Titicaca Basin (Elizabeth Arkush); Archaeological reconnaissance in the Carabaya region, Peru (Lawrence S Coben and Charles Stanish); Settlement patterns, administrative boundaries, and internal migration in the Early Colonial period (Matthew S Bandy and John W Janusek); Archaeological reconnaissance in the northern Titicaca Basin (Charles Stanish et al); Future directions in Titicaca Basin research (Amanda B Cohen).