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DOCUMENT Citation Only Terence Daltroy. Veronica Williams.

For all its standardization, Inka rule regularly accommodated regional circumstances. This paper uses NAA of 316 sherds to examine how activities carried out under state auspices were provisioned in NW Argentina, and how local societies took advantage of the Inka presence for their own interests. We address how well the organization of administrative and economic spaces coincided, and what role the region’s subject peoples played in determining the character of material assemblages used at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mauricio Torres. Andrea Chávez. Andrea Méndez. Byron Ortiz.

El Parque Arqueológico Cochasquí se encuentra en las estribaciones sur orientales del macizo montañoso de Mojanda, en la provincia de Pichincha a 52 Km al norte de Quito. El sitio está conformado por 15 pirámides truncas, casi todas conservando sus rampas que facilitan el acceso a la parte superior. En el mismo espacio se puede encontrar varios montículos circulares. En 1932 Max Uhle - el primer arqueólogo en realizar excavaciones dentro del sitio – concluyó que las pirámides fueron sitios...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Louis R. Sullivan. Milo Hellman.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo Retamal. Aryel Pacheco. Francisca Santana-Sagredo. Samantha Cox. Jorge Pinares.

Presented here is a case of intentional amputation found in a 30-40 year old male (inventoryNº B0796) from the Pica 8 cemetery in Northern Chile who exhibits an antemortem loss of all his left toes. Whilst Munizaga (1974) suggested that this mutilation was caused by frostbite, our CT scan analysis suggests intentional amputation. While this intentional amputation could be the consequence of a surgical procedure, amputation as a form of punishment presents an interesting possibility to explore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Rosales-Tham. Victor Vásquez-Sanchez. Guy Duke.

Due to the arid environment and subsequent excellent preservation on the north coast of Peru, evidence obtained from macrobotanical remains here has been the primary sources of information on plant use. However, despite the richness of the macrobotanical record, the combination of arid conditions and the nature of many plants, such as potatoes and beans – which are consumed in their entirety – macrobotanical remains can only tell us so much. In this paper, we discuss some methodological issues...

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Due to the arid environment and subsequent excellent preservation on the north coast of Peru, evidence obtained from macrobotanical remains here has been the primary sources of information on plant use. However, despite the richness of the macrobotanical record, the combination of arid conditions and the nature of many plants, such as potatoes and beans – which are consumed in their entirety – macrobotanical remains can only tell us so much. In this paper, we discuss some methodological issues...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Guy Duke. Victor Vásquez-Sanchez. Teresa Rosales-Tham.

Due to the arid environment and subsequent excellent preservation on the north coast of Peru, evidence obtained from macrobotanical remains here has been the primary sources of information on plant use. However, despite the richness of the macrobotanical record, the combination of arid conditions and the nature of many plants, such as potatoes and beans – which are consumed in their entirety – macrobotanical remains can only tell us so much. In this paper, we discuss some methodological issues...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giles Spence-Morrow. Edward Swenson. Aleksa Alaica.

The Late Moche ceremonial center of Huaca Colorada (AD 650-850) was distinguished by cycles of ritualized architectural renovation that coincided with human and animal foundation sacrifices. Detailed architectonic analysis of the construction sequence of the ceremonial core in relation to the sacrificial burials incorporated into the structure itself provides interesting insights on Moche ontologies of embodiment, space, and social change. The data strongly suggest that Moche perceived...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Litschi. Kayeleigh Sharp.

Archaeometric approaches to ceramic analysis allow us to critically examine differences in ceramic manufacture and use. By integrating pXRF methods with spatial analysis, it becomes possible to contextualize such differences. Do elemental and technological differences correspond to distinct ceramic styles? Are these differences spatially meaningful? Attendant to our broader objective investigating Mochica-Gallinazo identity and coexistence at the Songoy-Cojal site complex, Zaña Valley north...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giancarlo Marcone. Nina Castillo. Rodrigo Areche. Geraldine Huertas.

The accounts about Inca domination of the Cañete valley had been proposed as the example of Inca military strategies. The El Guarco site was proposed by these accounts as the head of a kingdom that establish a fierce resistance to the Incas that was later overwhelmed by an unmerciful repression. Although this presences in the ethno historic accounts, is little what we know about the political and social organization of this kingdom and the functions that the El Guarco had inside this society. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Sharp.

Warfare, as a social practice, can have profound consequences ranging from reorganization of sociopolitical boundaries to forced migration of communities and large-scale settlement pattern changes. This study quantitatively examines the increased concern for defense in the Early Intermediate Period (EIP) (200 BC–AD 600) by comparing defensibility of archaeological sites to the surrounding landscape in highland Ancash, Peru. Sites located on opposite sides of the Cordillera Blanca, specifically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Walker.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Prehistoric Large Low-Density Settlements beyond Urbanism and Other Conventional Classificatory Conventions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Llanos de Moxos (Moxos) in the Bolivian Amazon is a useful case study for questions of settlement pattern, agricultural intensification, and social organization, particularly in light of its ambiguous status as both Amazonian and Andean, and neither Andean nor...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Olsen Bruhns.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Swenson.

The co-extension of peoples, places, and things as interdependent social actors were fundamental to Andean spatial ontologies. For instance, the "multiflex" Paria Caca of the Huarochiri Manuscript was manifested as five eggs, five falcons, five brothers, and a great mountain that still bears his name. In this paper, I argue that quintessential locales in the ancient Andes were often places where wholes and parts, microcosmos and macrocosoms, interiors and exteriors, and complementary opposites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Ortiz. Thomas Lynch.

In 1964 excavations at Quishqui Punku, Lynch described a diverse lithic industry, including small blades and elongated flakes, which I re-analyzed in 2014-15. Lynch did not take samples for radiocarbon dating because of severe mixing and contamination by later agriculturalists. Nevertheless, in this study of the blades and debitage, I recognized two fragments of Fishtail points. Typological considerations suggest occupation from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Early and Middle Holocene...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geraldine Huertas Sánchez.

Según los relatos etnohistóricos, los incas tras una ardua lucha de 4 años aproximadamente, dominaron al fuerte señorío Huarco, consolidando su poder con la construcción de una fortaleza. Otras fuentes hablan de Huarco como un señorío menos independiente, que integraba una confederación política conformada por los diversos grupos de la costa central que fueron conquistados. En el presente trabajo, analizaremos la cerámica recuperada por el Proyecto Qhapaq Ñan, en el sitio conocido como "El...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Brieger. J. Gurgel. E. Paterniani. A. Blumenschein. M. Alleoni.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Ryan Williams. Donna Nash.

In this paper, we review our use of digital technologies to model archaeological landscapes over the past two decades in Peru and Bolivia. We focus on three scales of analysis in four thematic areas that leverage state of the art technology and GIS modeling as a means for understanding the archaeological record. Our scales run from the built environment of local sites and monuments to regional agricultural landscapes to subcontinental interaction spheres. We look thematically at modeling...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard L. Burger.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Underwood.

The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 was passed to protect the UK’s most significant wrecks. In 2013 more than sixty sites are designated under this legislation. Recreational divers continue to enjoy licensed access to them, with amateur archaeologists surveying and in some cases excavating under the direction of their nominated archaeologist, which also remains a voluntary activity. However the relationship between amateurs and the profession with respect to these sites has not always been an easy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Smith. Juana Lazo. Alan Coogan. Maria Cecilia Lozada.

Textiles from the Ramada culture of southern Peru are currently understudied and poorly understood. Recent research in the Vitor Valley suggests that the Ramada culture was a regional Early Intermediate-to-Middle Horizon cultural manifestation, contemporary with both Nazca, to the northwest, and the Wari traditions, but with its own distinct expressions of cultural identity. This paper presents preliminary analyses, using archaeological textiles from a cemetery dated to 550AD, which suggest that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya Zeferjahn. Michelle Baroldi. Chris Lee. Carl Lipo. Matt Becker.

One of the many mysteries of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) is how the ancient inhabitants survived with so few sources of freshwater. The scarcity of freshwater suggests that water resources may have been a constraining factor in settlement growth, patterning, and distribution. As a first step of addressing this hypothesis, we conducted field work to identify classes of terrestrial sources of freshwater and compared them to early settlement distribution. From May-June, 2014, we generated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry Tantaleán.

En esta ponencia se analizan los contextos de banquetes y funerarios para explicar el uso de un sitio Paracas Tardío con características originalmente rituales-políticas para fines de recreación de las élites locales mediante practicas de rituales e internamiento de los cuerpos de individuos de élites locales. se explora el potencial del uso del concepto de huaca para época Paracas y se señalan una serie de indicadores arqueológicos para identificar otros posibles contextos similares...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Piscitelli.

The Late Archaic Period (3000-1800 B.C.) was a time of dramatic cultural transformations in the Central Andes. At the beginning of the 3rd millennium B.C., at least 30 large, sedentary agricultural settlements with monumental architecture appeared between the Huaura and Fortaleza river valleys in a region known locally as the "Norte Chico" ("Little North"). Given the quantity, size, and complexity of monumental architecture at these sites, as well as the unique settlement patterns, some have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisbeth Louderback. Nicole Herzog. Bruce Pavlik. Tom Dillehay.

The earliest evidence of wild potato use anywhere in the world comes from Monte Verde (southern Chile), where tuber fragments were recovered from hearths that directly date to 14,500 cal B.P. Those tubers were tentatively assigned to a wild potato species (Solanum maglia) based on their starch granule morphology, which, according to Ugent et al., could be distinguished from the granule morphology of the domesticated potato (S. tuberosum). Recently, that identification has been called into...