Rethinking Ecological Verticality for the Initial Period: A Case from South-Central Peru
Author(s): Michelle Young; Sadie Weber
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Murra’s model of the vertical archipelago continues to reverberate in discussions of ecological exploitation across Andean regions, while other scholars have argued that such frameworks essentialize Andean societies by projecting ethnohistorical data onto the deep past. New ceramic, microbotanical, and isotopic evidence from Atalla and other sites in the Huancavelica region demonstrate a compelling case for the movement of peoples between this highland region and settlements on the Peruvian south coast. In this paper, we present evidence of interaction between the communities living in these disparate geographic regions to evaluate the utility of ecological verticality for understanding the sociopolitical landscape of south-central Peru during the late Initial period (1100-800 B.C.).
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Rethinking Ecological Verticality for the Initial Period: A Case from South-Central Peru. Michelle Young, Sadie Weber. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449432)
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Geographic Keywords
South America: Andes
Spatial Coverage
min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;
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Abstract Id(s): 26023