South America: Andes (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathalie Suarez Gonzalez. Lawrence S. Owens. Gontran Sonet. Peter Eeckhout.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pachacamac is a major pre-Columbian site located on Peru’s Central Coast. Covering approximately 6 km2, the site was occupied for over a thousand years before the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. In 2012, the Ychsma Project discovered a unique Late Intermediate Period (900 to 1470 AD) multiple burial ('Cx4') made of two funerary chambers with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Kaplan. Richard Newman. Christopher Beekman.

This is an abstract from the "Plant Exudates and Other Binders, Adhesives, and Coatings in the Americas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wooden objects excavated by Max Uhle and others from LIP sites in Ica, Peru, have been identified variously as *guares (steering boards for sailing rafts) and ceremonial agricultural implements. Rather than examining the function of these items, we have to date focused on their manufacturing components. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvia Rodriguez-Sama.

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. Understanding the unique gallery system at Chavín de Huántar has been one of the PIACCh’s primary goals over the past 30 years. Research objectives that began in the mid-1990s with the challenge of simply making accurate maps of these internal spaces, evolved to address broader...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Mesia-Montenegro.

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. This paper evaluates 113 radiocarbon dates of 11 Formative sites located in Lima and assesses them considering the existing Chavín chronological framework. All dates were modeled using Bayesian statistics through Oxcal to reassess the chronological range of the Formative period in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Turley. Steve Wernke. Manuel Mamani.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the sixteenth century the Spanish introduced new building technologies such as masonry arches, ceramic roof tiles, and quicklime-based products to Andean architectural traditions. The incorporation of these technologies changed the day-to-day experience of building construction, as local laborers created new routines in order to source, produce, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillermo De La Fuente.

This is an abstract from the "Cross-Cultural Petrographic Studies of Ceramic Traditions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Aguada Portezuelo ceramic style (ca. AD 600 – AD 900) from Northwestern Argentine region, presents a highly stylistic variation and complexity in the forming techniques used by ancient potters, concerning surface treatments and the decoration applied to ceramic vessels. One of the most important features in these ceramics, is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maya B. Krause. Tiffiny Tung.

This is an abstract from the "The Marking and Making of Social Persons: Embodied Understandings in the Archaeologies of Childhood and Adolescence" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper uses an anthropological bioarchaeological approach to examine stable isotope data to reconstruct juvenile diet and migration. Through the analysis of stable carbon and oxygen isotope data from dental enamel carbonates, this study builds a preliminary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Sutter. Gabriel Prieto. John Verano. Rachel Witt. Julio Asencio.

This is an abstract from the "Ritual Violence and Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Andes: New Directions in the Field" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, hundreds of Chimú-Era child sacrifices have been discovered at locations to the north of the Chimú’s capital—Chan Chan—by the Programa Arqueológico Huanchaco. He we report on biodistance results for 22 recently excavated child sacrifices from Pampa la Cruz-Monticulo 1, Episode 3 (~AD...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Larios. Jacob Bongers. Jordan Dalton. Jo Osborn. Camille Weinberg.

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. The Chincha Kingdom is widely recognized as one of the few cases in which 10,000 merchants are said to have existed in the Late Horizon non-market Inca economy. This paper seeks to investigate Chincha economic organization by analyzing the distribution of pottery from various sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Dalton.

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. The study of settlement systems is an important component in archaeologists’ efforts to understand how valley-wide or multi-valley polities change over time. Settlement studies often rely on site size, site location, site layout, and site chronologies to determine the changing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Dalton.

This is an abstract from the "Indigenous Stories of the Inka Empire: Local Experiences of Ancient Imperialism" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studies of Inka expansion often highlight the important role that elites played in expanding and administering the empire. This is especially true on the central and south coast, where the Inka came into contact with complex polities. Arguably, the most well-known of these groups were the Chincha. Through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo Osborn. Brittany Hundman. Camille Weinberg. Kelita Perez.

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. The site of Jahuay, located 20 km north of the Chincha Valley, was first occupied during the Early Horizon as a commoner fishing community. In later eras, it was reoccupied by the Chincha and Inka, possibly as a tambo. During the 2017 and 2018 field seasons, the Proyecto de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Wester.

Las investigaciones en Chotuna Chornancap – Lambayeque – Perú, pusieron a la luz el hallazgo de contextos funerarios de personajes de élite, uno de ellos correspondiente a una "Gobernante y Sacerdotisa" de la fase Tardía de la cultura Lambayeque (XII-XIIId.C). El fardo funerario de la gobernante/sacerdotisa enterrado con ocho acompañantes, ornamentos de alto rango, poder y autoridad, han permitido documentar una de las más conspicuas autoridades políticas y religiosas de la cultura Lambayeque....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Titelbaum. Bronwyn McNeil. Samantha Fresh. Bebel Ibarra Asencios.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Situated on a steep-sided mountain slope on the eastern side of the Cordillera Blanca in the Ancash region of Peru, the Late Intermediate−Early Colonial period (AD 1000–1650) site of Marcajirca consists of residential, public, and funerary areas. Interment contexts include 35 aboveground walled tombs (chullpas). While it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Axel Nielsen.

Previous research has interpreted chullpas as open sepulchers, altars, and landmarks which participated in political projects mainly by helping to reproduce corporate identities through ancestor worship and by inscribing power hierarchies and territorial claims on the landscape. This paper builds on the premise that chullpas were not just things with a certain function, but non-human persons (wak'as) capable of acting in different ways, given the affordances of their corporeality as towers or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Camila Alday.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plants have been used for making fabrics for thousands of years (Hardy 2007; Hardy et al. 2020; Hurcombe 2008; Kvavadze et al. 2009, Nadel et al. 1994), and many species have been gathered and eventually cultivated for this purpose (Barber 1992; Gleba and Harris 2019; Rast-Eicher et al. 2021). Evidence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mauricio Uribe.

This is an abstract from the "Alfareros deste Inga: Pottery Production, Distribution and Exchange in the Tawantinsuyu" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A mediados de 1970 surgió la conocida discusión si el dominio incaico en el norte de Chile había sido directo o indirecto, a partir de la aplicación que se hizo del modelo sobre la "verticalidad" andina de John Murra. De acuerdo con esta propuesta, la situación se dirimía en términos de que cuán...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Feltz. Patrick Mullins. Brian Billman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In July of 2018, the archaeological site of Ciudad de Dios, located in the Moche Valley of the north coast of Peru, was surveyed using a drone. The digital map was then used to not only analyze the settlement’s organization, but also the natural and unnatural destruction that has affected the preservation of the site. Excavated by MOCHE Inc. in 1998, Ciudad de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Alexandrino Ocaña.

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. In an archaeologically rich country like Peru, theoretically all people have access to archaeological sites. However, parallel to the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable and traditionally marginalized populations are disproportionally affected by archaeological sites (as well as by coronavirus). This presentation asks: What has changed in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Snyder. Randy Haas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of the pre-Columbian Andes provides an ideal study of the range of human responses to climate change given the region’s extreme climatic variability, excellent archaeological preservation, and robust paleoclimate records. We evaluate the effects of climate change on the frequency of interpersonal violence in the south central Andes from 470...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugenia Gayo. Jose M. Capriles.

This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The south central Andean highlands have a rich and complex socio-environmental history. Although generally seen as a single cultural area with fluid sociocultural interaction, its geographic heterogeneity is mirrored by its cultural diversity. To explain the varying effects of climate in the late Holocene...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Detlef Wilke. Peter de Smet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years several studies have documented plant secondary metabolite containing residues in archaeological find material, extending the supposed utility of vessels and other implements to the ceremonial and religious-ritual domain. Inter alia cacao, coca and tobacco related compounds were identified with LC/MS/MS analytics in the nanogram scale. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Murphy.

A growing body of bioarchaeological research into the biocultural effects of Spanish colonialism on native Andean communities shows that traditional and popular narratives emphasizing the roles of epidemic disease and Spanish military superiority in the conquest of the Inca Empire are oversimplified. In this poster, I synthesize recent bioarchaeological research from different sites in Peru that has interrogated the intricacies and etiologies of native mortality and depopulation, differential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Kim. Andrea Goytia.

The Camata-Carijana Valley is situated on the eastern frontier of the Inka Empire in the Kallawaya domain. Ethnohistorical accounts state the valley was occupied by the Kallawaya and Chuncho groups from the tropical piedmont (Saignes 1984, 1985; Steward 1948). Therefore, the Camata-Carijana Valley offers the opportunity to study Inka, Kallawaya, and Chuncho entanglements through time. This paper focuses on the site of, Maukallajta, in the Camata-Carijana Valley. Also known as Pueblo Viejo,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyrus Banikazemi.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring Culture Contact and Diversity in Southern Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This preliminary study explores how pigments were sourced and manufactured in the Moquegua valley of southern Peru. The ethnohistoric and archaeological records provide ample evidence of the economic, religious, and social significance of colors and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world; however, there currently exists little...