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Atalla, located in the South Central Andes of Peru in the province of Huancavelica, boasts a monumental temple and expansive, multi-phase domestic areas. Occupation of the site intermittently spans approximately 3000 years, and human presence in the surrounding area likely predates this site. Recent excavations focusing on both the monumental and domestic sectors of the site have yielded faunal remains from nearly all contexts. Here, I present an analysis of the faunal remains and bone tools...
Life, Death, and Renewal: The Collective Experience of Performative Ritual at Huaca Colorada (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sector B, the principal monumental area of Huaca Colorada, has long been understood as the locus of rites of social and cosmic rebirth, ancestor veneration, and genealogical continuity. Excavation has revealed a ritual canon that included the...
A Lifetime of Fieldwork (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Humble Houses to Magnificent Monuments: Papers in Honor of Jerry D. Moore" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although Jerry is best known for his archaeological work in the Andes over the past 40 years, his interest in anthropology and in conducting fieldwork began much earlier as a high school student in Stockton, California. Initially intrigued by visits to museums, he set out to learn about Native Americans in the...
Lima Culture: Bridging Domestic and Political Economy (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Political Economies on the Andean Coast" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite having been central during the pioneer years of Andean archaeology, we understand little of the Lima Culture (circa AD 50–900). Is the Lima culture a political formation or several political formations that share a common territory? How was this society organized politically? On what was political power based in Lima society? Researchers...
Linear Enamel Hypoplasia: An Analysis of Health Disparities Between the Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon of Nasca, Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been an abundance of research on the Nasca culture and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) separately. However, there is no literature specifically on Nasca and LEH analysis comparing the Early Intermediate Period (EIP) and the Middle Horizon period (MH). The research detailed here shows there are evident disparities in LEH between Nasca individuals...
Lines to the Mountains: Investigations of LIP and LH Carangas Settlement Patterns and Geoglyphs (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carangas, primarily located in modern day Bolivia, were a Late Intermediate Period (LIP) group often associated with highland pastoralism and broader LIP traditions. They are also known for a series of colored adobe chullpas in the Rio Lauca basin and a network of linear geoglyphs called the Sajama lines which cover over 20,000 square kilometers. They...
The Linguistic-Epistemic Uprising behind the Teaching of the Atacamenean Language (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the insurgent practices of the people of Atacama who seek to teach Ckunza, a language that is extinct according to experts and the Chilean state. The Atacameños created the academy of the Ckunza language and teach the language in the community. Thus, they revive Ckunza, decolonizing the episteme imposed by...
Liturgical textiles from the Spanish colonial reducción of Santa Cruz de Tuti, Colca Valley, Peru (2017)
A highly visible symbol within the church, liturgical cloth plays an important role in the communication of ideas about the wealth and authority of the Catholic Church. During the colonial period in the Andes, the influence of liturgical textiles extended to reinforcing ideas about the power of the Spanish Empire as well as the role of indigenous populations within it. Although cloth production during the period of Spanish colonization is a subject discussed to some extent by art historians...
Lived Experiences of Disease and Trauma among Manteño Burials from Buen Suceso (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Skeletal measures of pathology and trauma can reveal lived experiences of individuals and broader patterns of health and disease within past communities. These are important lines of inquiry at both the individual and community level as they may reflect the identities held by those...
The Lives and Deaths of Moche Valley Children: What Endocranial Lesions Can Tell Us (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Children’s lives were mostly largely excluded from bioarchaeology analyses before the 1990s. Since then, a new focus on the bioarchaeology of children has illuminated the importance of the lived experiences of childhood for understanding past societies. In this research, we examined the remains of 270 children who died before they were six years old, who were...
Living Landscapes of Night in Tiwanaku, Bolivia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape & Lightscape of Ancient Cities" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most treatments of Andean urbanism and urban life emphasize the acts and rhythms of daily life. Ethnohistoric documentation of life in Cuzco, nevertheless, details a rich corpus of ritual sequences and domestic activities that ideally took place under cover of night. In Tiwanaku today, night is an ontological...
Living Large at Cerro León: A Comparative Look at Living Spaces in the Early Intermediate Period Moche Valley (2018)
The hill slope settlement of Cerro León (AD 1-400) contains all the typical elements of Early Intermediate period residential sites; spaces for cooking, crafting, sleeping and storage. The flow of most daily activity likely occurred between enclosed, roofed kitchens with heavily used hearths and enclosed but sunlit patios for food processing, spinning, weaving, and tool-making. However, some residences at Cerro León stood apart, not only because of their spaciousness and greater number of rooms...
The Llamitas of Wiñaymarka: Individual Potters, Communities of Practice, and the Organization of Production for Pacajes Pottery in the Southern Titicaca Basin, Bolivia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pacajes pottery is commonly found throughout Qullasuyu, the southern quarter of the Inka empire. Originating in Bolivia, it saw wider distribution after Inka expansion through the region. One specific form common of this style is a shallow plate decorated with small, black stylized llamas repeating at regular intervals over a red interior. Evidence for the...
Lluvias que ocurrieron en el pasado prehistórico del valle de Huamanga en Ayacucho, Perú (2018)
El registro arqueológico muestra que durante el pasado prehistórico en el valle de Ayacucho, ocurrieron diferentes lluvias que no solo inundaron y sepultaron aldeas, templos, pueblos y otros monumentos, sino que testimonian los cambios drásticos sucedidos en el desarrollo de las culturas. Como en el caso de la Costa, se vieron afectadas por el fenómeno "El Niño" o ENSO, y lluvias torrenciales que produjeron huaycos y sequias en la región interandina y en otras partes del mundo. Desde los lo...
Local and Imperial Powers at the Huancabamba Depression: The Alto Piura Case (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Political Economies on the Andean Coast" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The peoples of the inner Piuran coast have a deep link with water management and agriculture that was consolidated around AD 1000 under the administration of local and foreign groups which densely occupied the Alto Piura (chaupiyunga) through administrative centers and irrigation systems. Using aerial photographs and RPA imagery, this research...
Local Color: The Visual Analysis of a South American Colonial Lacquered Gourd from the Collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Materials to Materiality: Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological and Historical Artifacts Using Non-destructive and Micro/Nano-sampling Scientific Methods" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hispanic Society has a small but very fine collection of colonial Spanish American lacquered objects, which are decorated with one of the more widely known indigenous lacquer techniques, barniz de Pasto. The Hispanic...
Local food, exotic sacrifices: the tentative summary of the animal management in Castillo de Huarmey. (2017)
Even through the majority of faunal remains so far recovered at Castillo de Huarmey site derived from ceremonial contexts (i.e. main mortuary mausoleum and adjacent palatial complex), studies demonstrate that at the very least, the site’s elite inhabitants extensively exploited local resources, and simultaneously benefited from developed trade connections. At the core of animal management was the extensive camelid husbandry. The standard zooarchaeological analysis and mortality profiles...
Local Impact of Tiwanaku at the site of Pinami, Cochabamba: Synthesis of Diachronic Ceramic, Household, Food Production, Mortuary and Isotopic Data (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tiwanaku state has been shown to have had varied methods for interacting with and influencing its peripheries. This poster presents a synthesis of multi-year excavations at the site of Pinami in the Central Valley of Cochabamba that provides both diachronic depth from the Late Formative, Middle Horizon and Early Intermediate and a wide range of data...
Local Mortuary Practice and Inca Imperial Conquest in the Middle Chincha Valley, Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From the Paracas Culture to the Inca Empire: Recent Archaeological Research in the Chincha Valley, Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I investigate the relationship between local mortuary practice and imperial conquest in the middle Chincha Valley of Peru, a landscape that was incorporated into the Inca Empire in the 15th century. Indigenous groups developed strategies for dealing with invasive imperial control. One...
Local People and the Circulation of Nonlocal Animals and Objects: Rethinking Interregional Mobility in the Arequipa Yunga during the Circum-Wari Era (2021)
This is an abstract from the "A New Horizon: Reassessing the Andean Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000) and Rethinking the Andean State" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wari imperial era (ca. AD 600–1000) is known for heightened interregional interaction, evinced by the relative abundance of nonlocal artistic styles throughout the Andes. Wari-era sites generally show greater variability in human 87Sr/86Sr (a marker for nonlocal origins) than other...
A Local Perspective of Inca Imperial Influence in Coastal Colesuyo of the Southern Andes (2018)
The effects of the Inca empire across the Andes were multiple and diverse. Relying on their sophisticated institutions, the empire originated a strong physical, political, and economic connectivity across the pre-Hispanic Andes that on occasions went beyond imperial boundaries or political borders. People, things and ideas travelled across the empire provoking a cascade of interactions some of which were not directly intended by the center of power. The multi-component site of Tacahuay located...
Local Politics, Money, and Power: Navigating Archaeological Heritage in the Peruvian Highlands (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Current Dynamics of Heritage Values in the Americas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There are millions of rural, Quechua-speaking peoples living today in the modern nation of Peru. However, living populations do not always self-identify as descendants of the ancient communities that archaeologists study. There are complex reasons for this apparent disjuncture between ancient and contemporary peoples, some of which...
Locality on the Frontier (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, several archaeological investigations have been conducted in northern Peru and southern Ecuador, which...
Long-Term Geomorphological History and the Farming Landscape of Pañamarca (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Paisajes Arqueológicos de Pañamarca: Findings from the 2018–2023 Field Seasons" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, we discuss the results of the geomorphological survey carried out parallel to the archaeological fieldwork in 2018 and 2019. The analysis of geological profiles at alluvial terraces, satellite imagery, and radiocarbon dating produced a 9,000-year sequence showing the high dynamism of the...
Long-Term Puna Landscape Use in the Chanka Heartland of Andahuaylas, Southern Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines the enduring role that puna landscapes played across time and space in the Andahuaylas region of southern highland Peru. Results from a recent archaeological landscape survey, entitled the Andahuaylas Puna Project, confirms that the expansive puna to the south of the main Chumbao Valley was intensively used and intermittently occupied for...