Republic of Peru (Country) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only BrieAnna Langlie.

In the 15th century, the Inca built the largest pre-colonial empire in the western hemisphere. In southern Peru near Lake Titicaca, an ethnic group known as the Colla violently resisted conquest by the Inca for several years. Because of their military prowess, the Inca named one quarter of their empire, Collasuyo, after this group. The Colla’s ability to resist Inca subjugation was facilitated by their decentralized economy evident in their construction and management of a new agricultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleksa Alaica.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A multispecies approach to archaeology creates the potential for inclusive debate on the value of identity among both human and nonhuman beings. This paper explores the way that camelid life histories where shaped by and influenced sociopolitical relationships among the Late Moche...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estanislao Pazmiño.

Localizado en la alta amazonía ecuatoriana el entorno geográfico del valle del río Upano acoge una amplia diversidad ecológica y de suelos que, sin duda, resultaron atractivos para los diferentes grupos humanos que se asentaron en la región durante la época prehispánica. Por otra parte la ubicación estratégica hizo que el valle sin duda constituya un nodo importante en la interacción cultural entre los altos valles andinas y las tierras bajas amazónicas. Ambas situaciones fueron favorables para...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arabel Fernandez.

Excavaciones en el segundo templo de la Huaca Cao Viejo del Complejo Arqueológico El Brujo (valle de Chicama, costa norte centroandina), revelaron un hallazgo sin precedentes en la arqueología peruana. Este sector fue el lugar de enterramiento de tres personajes de alto estatus social, acompañados de otros dos individuos de menor jerarquía. En esta oportunidad presentaremos los resultados del proceso de apertura del fardo del personaje femenino conocido como la Señora de Cao. Diversos factores,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Paul Rojas. Benjamin Ramirez. Mozelle Bowers.

This is an abstract from the "Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buen Suceso, a Formative period Valdivia site, is located in the Culebra-Colin (Manglaralto) valley of Ecuador’s coastal plain, on the lands of the contemporary comuna Dos Mangas, and flanked by the Chongón-Colonche Hills. The site is in a tropical rainforest ecoregion characterized by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Van Buren.

Air pollution caused by pre-industrial metal production in the Andes has been reported by scholars using data collected from lake sediments and ice cores. An important source of this pollution, which consists primarily of lead dust, is Potosí, Bolivia, a mining center that produced large quantities of silver during the early colonial period and, perhaps, during prehispanic times as well. This paper examines the environmental effects of indigenous silver production by investigating the operation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah Montgomery.

This presentation examines the collection of unfired clay models, or maquetas, from the Moche site of San José de Moro, Peru, proposing an interpretation focused on their unique materiality and position within the artistic corpus at the site.  A renewed focus on Moche architectural representation treats these three-dimensional models as miniaturized, mimetic sculptures of monumental buildings, often used to understand the function of ceremonial space in the past. As of 2012, fifty maquetas have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Oré Menéndez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster addresses the lack of equity present in archaeological practice, focusing on the use of high-end technological methods, like image analysis and multispectral satellite remote sensing (MSRS) in particular. The use of these advanced computational tools allows for a new type of regional- and even inter-regional scale research and expands and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Huamán López.

This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el sitio de Quilcapampa. Arequipa, dieron como resultado el hallazgo de fragmentos cerámicos del Horizonte Medio cuya iconografía y estilos tienen estrecha relación con la cultura Wari, el hallazgo incluye a formas de vasijas y diseños de la época 1B y 2A (estilos Chakipampa,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Umberto Lombardo.

Estimates of population density in pre-Columbian Amazonia have been based on calculations of the carrying capacity of the environment, generally classified as varzea, terra firme and savannah. These estimates, however, have been criticized because they overlook the fact that i) the Amazonia environment is far more diverse in terms of soils, vegetation and climate than this simplistic classification and ii) pre-Columbians increased, both intentionally and unintentionally, the productivity of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Eduardo Eche Vega. Jose L. Peña.

This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las construcciones monumentales públicas cobraron un rol importante dentro de la vida social, política, económica e ideológica de las sociedades complejas andinas. Estas sociedades complejas edificaron grandes estructuras de piedra y adobe destinadas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Quiñonez.

This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El sitio arqueológico de Quilcapampa se ubica en la margen derecha del valle medio del rio Sihuas al sur de Perú. Los datos recuperados durante dos temporadas de campo lo ubican cronológicamente en el Horizonte Medio, asociándolo directamente a la cultura Wari, evidenciando actividades específicas, entre...

DOCUMENT Citation Only P B Griffin. W G Solheim.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliana Rubinatto Serrano.

This is an abstract from the "Stability and Resilience in Zooarchaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the last two decades, archaeological science in the Amazon has recognized the complex human forest management systems that co-constructed a hyper-productive forest environment. The study of how protein procurement strategies, particularly fishing, were integrated into past Amazonian economies has also improved with excavations of a few sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Greaves. Karen Kramer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We investigate the pro-sociality of frequent cultural dances among a group of South American hunter-gatherers living in an impoverished environment. Savanna Pumé foragers of the llanos of Venezuela hold 11-hr night dances 36% of all nights sampled during 30 months of ethnoarcheological fieldwork. The Savanna Pumé live in a hyperseasonal environment with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean E Arnold.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo Areche.

El impacto de la expansión Inca a lo largo de los Andes Centrales ha sido documentado y conceptualizado de diferentes maneras. Ciertas elites de los grupos culturales locales inmersos en este proceso tuvieron un escenario beneficioso que permitió una reformulación en las relaciones políticas y económicas en diferentes grados y escalas. Presentaremos el caso de Cerro Azul o también conocido como la gran fortaleza del Huarco en el valle de Cañete de la Costa Centro Sur de Perú. Este sitio es...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Véronique Bélisle. Hubert Quispe-Bustamante. Allison Davis. Carlos Delgado González. Matthew Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Horizon (600-1000 CE) in the Central Andes was a time of important changes due to the expansion of the Wari and Tiwanaku states. Many scholars have argued that these polities, the Wari in particular, had a major economic impact on local communities, including the disruption of regional exchange networks and the reorientation of long-distance trade...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martha Cabrera Romero.

This is an abstract from the "After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape & Lightscape of Ancient Cities" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What was daily life like after sundown in the ancient city of Wari, Peru? What events took place and who was involved in them? In this paper, activities of the night and the sacred rituals that occurred in the ancient capital of the Wari Empire are explored from evidence that denotes the advanced practice of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Mesia. Sadie Weber.

Excavations carried out at the Wacheqsa sector at Chavín de Huantar identified archaeological contexts from the Middle Formative (1200 – 900 cal BCE) and Late Formative (900 – 550 Cal BCE). In this paper we present preliminary results of starch analysis carried on in culinary equipment (ceramics) retrieved from domestic occupations from the Middle and Late Formative periods and a large midden, originated from the discard of feasting remains during the Late Formative period. Microbotanical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Maezumi. Jose Iriarte. Diana Alves. Mark Robinson. Denise Schaan.

The scale of pre-Columbian impact on Amazonia is one of the most debated topics in archaeology and paleoecology. To address this issue, an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological soil profiles and lake sediment cores from the lower Tapajos are used to investigate climate-human-ecosystem interactions over the past 8,000 years. Pollen and phytolith data indicate the presence of polyculture crops including Ipomea, Manihot, Zea mays, and Cucurbita. The presence of Theobroma,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Logan Kistler. Fabio de Oliveira Freitas. Marcelo Simon. Robin Allaby.

This is an abstract from the "Frontiers of Plant Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cassava (‘manioc' or ‘yuca' regionally) is a staple food for 800 million people worldwide. It was domesticated in the southwestern Amazon ~7,000 years ago, and archaeobotanical evidence suggests that it dispersed widely, including through Central America, shortly thereafter. In the present day, it is most widely grown in Brazil and throughout sub-Saharan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Matulek. P. Nick Kardulias.

The original peopling of the Americas has puzzled researchers for decades. While some evidence points to a single wave of migration, still other data suggest two or more waves. Their reasonable estimated arrival dates range from 14,500 to over 20,000y.b.p., although some scholars push back their arrival even farther. Drawing from archaeology, genetics, historical linguistics, and physical anthropology, the peopling of the Americas debate encompasses research from a wide range of experts. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julianna Santillan Goode. Allisen Dahlstedt. Paul Goldstein. Kelly Knudson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent approaches to inter-regional interaction emphasizing the study of heterogenous identities in peripheral contexts advance scholarly debate about sociopolitical organization in the archaic Andean state of Tiwanaku (C.E. 500-1100). The present study employs 87Sr/86Sr analysis to determine the source region of four archaeological ichu grass (Stipa ichu)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Weston McCool.

This is an abstract from the "Life Is Risky: Human Behavioral Ecological Approaches to Variable Outcomes " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Resource procurement and the avoidance of interpersonal violence are critical features of human survival strategies. Yet these features are often competing, requiring individuals to make trade-offs in order to maximize fitness. Recent decades of research have shown violence to be a pervasive, albeit variable,...