Chancay (Other Keyword)
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As a region of high ethnic and ecological diversity, the ancient Andes can be viewed as a collection of ecological, cultural, and political frontiers. Studying the processes that occurred along these frontiers is vital to understanding the indigenous political and economic systems that developed throughout the region prior to Spanish contact. As a transitional zone between the coast and the highlands, as well as a geographic bottleneck through which people and goods had to pass, the...
Expansión de la Cerámica Chancay en el valle de Checras en la Sierra Norte de Lima (2015)
La presente investigación brinda los primeros resultados de los trabajos exploratorios de excavación llevados a cabo en el sitio arqueológico de Tupish, localizado en el valle de Checras, en la sierra norte de la región Lima en Perú. Encontrándose evidencia cronológica relativa de su ocupación cultural que abarcaría de manera discontinua desde el periodo formativo medio hasta la época Inca. Esta convergencia cronológica y foránea mostraría indicios de los intercambios culturales o influencias...
Interactions, Geopolitical Mastery, and Empire: What Local-Level Political Machinations Tell Us about Imperial Strategy during the Late Prehispanic Period (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. Tom Dillehay’s early research in the Peruvian Chillon valley integrated archaeological and historical methods to demonstrate that Inka imperialism was not monolithic. Critically engaging with traditional models of verticality among Andean communities, his data-rich research demonstrated that the previous...
Negotiating with Empire: the Chancay as "intermediaries" in the Inka-Chimu conflict (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Late Intermediate Period, the north-central coast of Peru was inhabited by a number of small but dynamic polities, or señoríos, that were actively engaged in interregional networks of trade, intermarriage, and warfare. However, even though the north-central coast was sandwiched between the Chimu and Inka, we know relatively little about how...