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This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Salinar phenomenon began after the collapse of the Chavín culture in part of the north coast of Peru around 500 BC. According to several studies, the Salinar period was a time of significant changes in the area. The inhabitants intensified agricultural production, connected with other regions, and...
A “Salinar Period” Cemetery at the José Olaya Site: Preliminary Demography of a Post-Chavín Maritime Community in the Moche Valley (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Peering into the Night: Transition, Sociopolitical Organization, and Economic Dynamics after the Dusk of Chavín in the North Central Andes" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Systematic bioarchaeological studies of skeletal remains in conjunction with mortuary analyses provide a unique space in which archaeologists can begin to reconstruct past populations, social dynamics, and cosmologies. Following the influence of late...
Salt Exploitation in the Northern Ecuadorian Highlands: A Substance of Transformations (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Innovations in Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salt extraction was always important to local communities due to its uses in food preparation, food preservation, therapeutic practices, and ritual performances. The importance of this mineral for food conservation, nutrition, and other human physiological needs is widely known. However, few local studies have specified the role of this...
Salt-Making at Santa Catalinas de Salinas: Ecological Stress in the Northern Ecuadorian Highlands from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Unsettling Infrastructure: Theorizing Infrastructure and Bio-Political Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The residents of Santa Catalina de Salinas have exploited salt since prehispanic times in the northern Ecuadorian Andes, possibly in the hands of the indigenous groups of the Chota-Mira valley. However, during colonial times, this activity shifted to the hands of mestizos and...
Salud y condiciones de vida de los pobladores prehispánicos de Sondor en los Andes sur centrales de Perú (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo el estado de salud y condiciones de vida de los habitantes de Sondor, durante el periodo de transición (Intermedio Tardío). El material de estudio procede de contextos funerarios hallados en los trabajos de excavación realizada el 2017, como parte del Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Sondor Pacucha,...
Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darién: The Aftermath of Colonial Settlement (2017)
What kind of relationships were created between the indigenous people of the western region of the Gulf of Urabá (Colombia) and the Spaniards in the early years of the conquista? What happened in Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darién (1510-1524), the first European city founded on the American mainland, in the course of its short history, and immediately after its abandonment? We have a number of clues that can be drawn from contemporary historical sources (Oviedo), sources immediately following...
Satellite Remote Sensing of Archaeological Environmental Change in the Chicama Valley (2017)
As global ecological change becomes a pressing contemporary issue, it’s beneficial to also consider how long term land use histories have effected current ecologies. Using imagery from several multispectral remote sensing satellites and field verification of detected sites, I describe how legacies from archaeological occupations impact modern industrial sugarcane production in the Chicama valley. Occupation sites and agricultural systems, both extant and remnant, continue to influence sugarcane...
Satisfying needs and negotiating freedom in colonial Spanish American cities (2017)
Unlike archaeological studies that seek to focus on the relations of power and elites, that by means of physical violence and symbolic exerted their domination over other groups assumed to be passive, an approach from practice theories and spaces of contact in which daily practices took place is proposed. It is in these spaces and through everyday activities that curiosity, knowledge and consent made it possible for the majority to survive under the colonial regime, without this implying an...
Scale, Interaction, and Society: Constituting Social Boundaries in the Northern Peruvian Andes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part I: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists often look to certain practices, such as interregional trade, local feasting, or inter-community warfare, as having defined different kinds of social boundaries—between corporate groups, communities, polities, ethnicities, or regions. Tom Dillehay’s interdisciplinary work on a variety of...
Scars of Warfare: Early Fortifications and Politics in Coastal Ancash (Peru) (2018)
Between 500 BC and AD 500 communities of the coastal valleys of Ancash (Peru) lived in a period of increased conflict and violence. People moved to defensive locations and invested in the construction of defensive infrastructure such as: walls, moats and fortifications. These features are still visible today as scars in the landscape. Two moments have been defined in this period and are related to the Salinar and Gallinazo archaeological cultures, each characterized by different settlement...
Science Never Stops! Una Década de Arqueología en Chincha con Chip Stanish (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Thinking Big in the Andes: Papers in Honor of Charles Stanish" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta ponencia se describen y se discuten los principales descubrimientos empíricos, metodológicos y teóricos realizados por Charles Stanish durante una década de investigaciones arqueológicas en el valle de Chincha, Costa Sur del Perú.
Scientific experiments: a possibility? Presenting a cyclical script for experiments in archaeology (2005)
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Scraping the Pots: Residue Analysis of Salinar Ceramic Vessels Found in Domestic Contexts at Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Peering into the Night: Transition, Sociopolitical Organization, and Economic Dynamics after the Dusk of Chavín in the North Central Andes" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we present preliminary results of organic residues analysis taken from ceramic vessels found in domestic contexts at the site of Pampa la Cruz, north coast of Peru. This study emphasizes the importance of plant consumption among early...
Sea Shells in the Mountains and Llamas on the Coast: The Vertical Economic Organization of the Paracas in Palpa, South Peru (370–200 BC) (2018)
This research analyzes excavated materials of the Paracas culture (800–200 BC) in southern Peru, particularly obsidian artifacts, malacological finds, and camelid bones. In doing so, different methods including archaeometric techniques, quantification, artifact classification, and species determination are combined to elaborate natural origin, making, distribution, and utilization of the objects. The Paracas remains were excavated by the Palpa Archaeological Project and mainly derive from three...
Seabirds as Proxies for Past El Niño Events in Coastal Peru: An Archaeo-ornithological Approach (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This thesis sets an initial foundation for an archaeo-ornithological approach to understanding past El Niño events on the coast of Peru and the use of avifaunal remains as proxies for ecological conditions. Here I examine the extent to which El Niño phenomena could influence avifaunal resources and the effect this would have had on the subsistence...
Searching for the Domestic at Chavín: Integrating 20-Plus years of Archaeology in La Banda (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Chavín de Huántar’s Contribution to Understanding the Central Andean Formative: Results and Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Even after more than a century of research at Chavín de Huántar, two key questions remain about who the ceremonial center was built for and who it was built by. As research attention has largely focused on pilgrims, priests, and peer polities, the labor force and craft specialists...
The Secret Life of Cacao in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon (2017)
Genetic studies suggest that cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) domestication occurred in the Upper Amazon of southeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru and was then transported by humans northwards to Central America and Mexico. As such, we should expect to find the earliest archaeological evidence of cacao use in the tropical forests of South America. This paper presents starch granule evidence for the early use of cacao from the Upper Amazon site of Santa Ana-La Florida during the Ecuadorian Early...
Secularism and Religiousness in Late Formative Ceramics from Chavin de Huántar* (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The pottery from the ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar has been the reason for considerable attention by numerous researchers who have highlighted various qualities related to its manufacturing and iconography. Special attention has been put in ceramics qualified as ceremonial, from closed contexts (Ofrendas Gallery) inside the ceremonial center and from...
Sedentism and plant domestication: North west Amazonia (2017)
Two different scenarios have been proposed to explain sedentarization and the transition from foraging to sedentary societies. In the first a key resource or a combination of resources allows the stability of the population giving rise, over time, to sedentarization; in the second, a population concentration caused by an external change such as drastic climatic fluctuation or regional population increase with its concomitant social problems force the adoption of a sedentary way of life. In these...
Seeing Gender Ambiguity in Moche Visual Culture (2018)
This paper explores the visual language of gender expression in Moche art, seeking to determine the relationships among ambiguous gender, social role, and status in Moche visual culture. The Moche are well-known for their representations of warriors and warfare, as well as the sacrificial rituals associated with the taking of prisoners. However, this martial focus was not consistent across Moche time and space, and regional variations indicate the existence of a potential field of expression...
Seeing like a Neural Network? Possibilities and Predicaments of Automated Virtual Archaeological Prospection (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Vision in the Age of Big Data" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What might it mean to see like a neural network over vast areas of ancient landscapes? Rapid advances in computer vision—especially approaches using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)—have made automated archaeological site and feature detection from satellite and aerial imagery over very large areas an achievable prospect. Such automated...
Seeing Underground: The Feasibility of Archaeological Remote Sensing in Coastal and Highland Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and field tests in geophysics undertaken during a consultancy with the Peruvian Institute of Culture (INC) in October 1982. The invited international program...
A Sense of Place: A GIS Study of Late Intermediate Period and Inca Settlement Patterns in Moquegua Peru (2018)
This study investigates geospatial relationships among Late Intermediate Period (1000-1400 CE) and Inca settlement patterns within the Moquegua River drainage of southern Peru which were first identified in the 1990s by the Moquegua Archaeological Survey (MAS). A prevalence of walls and defensive locations and a largely vacant no-mans-land between downvalley Chiribaya and Chiribaya-San Miguel and upvalley Estuquiña settlements likely evidences an increased level of inter-cultural conflict in the...
Serving the State under Surveillance: Material Correlates of the Watched on an Inka Royal Estate (Cusco, Peru) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Surveillance: Seeing and Power in the Material World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Inka royal estate installation of Cheqoq (Maras, Cusco) reveal domestic spaces likely inhabited by both the watched (the retainers to the nobility) and the watchers (the intermediate elites overseeing laborers). Typical interpretations of the presence/absence of...
Settled in Strange Lands: Forced Relocation as a Technology of the Inka Empire (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Seeing Migrant and Diaspora Communities Archaeologically: Beyond the Cultural Fixity/Fluidity Binary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Why do empires force their subjects to leave home? From Neo-Assyria to the British West Indies, coercive migration policies have been adopted by expansive, multiethnic polities across time and space. One of the most ambitious projects of imperial forced relocation took place in the Inka...