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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Wilfredo Gambini, the then mayor of the Caceres District (upper Nepeña River Valley) Ancash, Peru, encouraged local campesinos to bring him any artifacts that were found in their local hamlets for his private collecting. From these interactions he compiled a database of archaeological complexes for the region, despite only...
The Role of Chullpas in the Inca Conquest of the Southern Altiplano: A Symmetrical Approach (2016)
I start with the premise that chullpas (architectural modules formed by a chamber which can be accessed by a narrow opening) are wak’as, persons with higher ontological status than humans, capable of acting in different ways (housing the dead, storing crops, guarding territories, defending communities, marking status differences among people, etc.) and settings (pukaras, villages, caves, or fields), as full members of altiplano society. I propose that chullpas were important actors in the Inca...