Macrobotanical Investigation of Sonaji, Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia
Author(s): Maria Bruno; Benjamin West
Year: 2015
Summary
This poster presents the results of a macrobotanical analysis from the site of Sonaji, Bolivia located on the Taraco Peninsula in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. Sonaji is a low mound built from generations of occupations through the Formative (1500BC-AD 500) and Tiwanaku (AD 500-1100) periods. We consider eleven macrobotanical samples from diverse contexts (middens, floors, pits). These data, when interpreted with ethnographic data and past paleoethnobotanical research from the region, shed light on the changes in and continuity of agricultural practices on the peninsula in the time before and during the rise of the Tiwanaku state.
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Macrobotanical Investigation of Sonaji, Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia. Benjamin West, Maria Bruno. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 398151)
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Keywords
General
Agricultural Practices
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titicaca basin
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tiwanaku
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;