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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)
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...
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...
The Settlement Ecology of Chanka Pastoralists in the Andahuaylas Region of Southern Highland Peru (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the settlement ecology of late prehistoric camelid pastoralists of the Andahuaylas region of southern highland Peru. In particular, the paper synthesizes survey based settlement data collected from the Chanka Settlement Project (PAC, 2005-2006) and Andahuaylas Puna Project (PAPA, 2018) and highlights variable settlement patterns and...
Settlement Pattern Study on the Early Occupations in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Northern Peru (2018)
The excavations at Kotosh by Japanese team during the 1960s demonstrated that in the Upper Huallaga Basin there are many archaeological sites corresponding to the time of the early development of Andean Civilization. One of the most important contributions of these studies is a fine-grained regional chronology from the Late Preceramic Period to the end of Early Horizon. The subsequent investigations in Cajamarca region of northern highland since the 1970s successfully elucidate diachronic...
Settlement pattern transformation in the Arica Highlands during the Late Intermediate and the Late Periods (XIV-XV centuries): The role of Zapahuira and the Incan Tambo network system and its relationship with local communities. (2017)
I will discuss the settlement pattern transformation of the Arica Highlands during the Late Intermediate Period and the Late Period (XIV-XV centuries) and the role of Zapahuira Tambo and the Inca Settlement Network System and its relationship with local communities. The latter will be carried out from an architectural and spatial characterization of some of the main Incan and Local settlements of the area. Some of the data integrated in this discussion have been gathered in my current research...
Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro Valley Revisited: Assessing the Effects of Wari State Expansion on the Central Andes during the Middle Horizon (A.D. 500–1000) (2018)
Archaeological studies of the Upper Mantaro Valley region in the central Andean highlands have played an essential role in shaping current models of Andean complex societies and state expansion during the Middle Horizon (A.D. 500–1000) and subsequent periods. Among the pioneer studies of this region was Browman’s pedestrian survey of the Upper Mantaro valley between Jauja and Huancayo, Peru for his doctoral dissertation, during which he registered over 106 sites dating to the Middle Horizon....
Settlement Patterns, Urbanism, Neighborhoods: Comparative Perspectives from Grupo Gallinazo and Cerro San Isidro, Coastal Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the formation, morphology, and neighborhood organization of two early urban settlements on the north coast of Peru – Grupo Gallinazo (~100 BCE–700 CE), Virú Valley, and Cerro San Isidro (~800 BCE–1500 CE), Nepeña Valley. Investigating variations in spatial arrangements and settlements at these two...
Settlement, Subsistence, Culture Change and Networking: New Perspectives on Bocas del Toro’s Integration with Greater Central America (2018)
Understanding the settlement chronology and degree of interaction and integration of Caribbean western Panama within "Gran Chiriqui" and greater Central America has driven archaeological research in the region since the 1950’s. Hernan Colon’s accounts of Bocas and adjacent Costa Rica depict a populous region, with vast fields of maize, people traveling about in numerous canoes and wearing more gold objects than ever seen in the New World. Lothrop’s 1947 synopsis of the "myth" of the Sigua...
Shamans, Altered States, and Cultural Appropriation (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Magic, Spirits, Shamanism, and Trance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This lecture will focus on the multifaceted world of shamanism. The presentation will show how shamans serve as vast repositories of traditional indigenous knowledge and native beliefs. The effectiveness of shamans as health care practitioners will be considered. The ingestion of mind altering substances by Amazonian shamans as part of their curing...
Shamans, Jaguars, Owls, Cosmograms, and Zygotes: Matapalo and the Origins of Late Valdivia Stone Plaques (2017)
The material record of Ecuador’s Early Formative Valdivia culture has long been approached from the perspective of a New World, particularly an Amazonian, shamanism incorporating foundational features of animistic ontology. More recently enigmatic stone plaques from Northern Manabí Province have been included in the non-secular repertoire of later Valdivia phases; however, their temporal and spatial associations remained poorly known. Investigations in the Coaque Valley clearly establish their...