Canete Valley (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany Hundman. Nicola Sharratt. Beth Turner.

Subsistence practices during the transition from Early Intermediate Period (200 BC-AD 600) to the Middle Horizon Period (AD 600- AD 1000) is crucial to understanding Pre-Hispanic life on the Southern coast of Peru. As the Nasca polity waned and the Wari state began to expand life in the coastal valleys was changing. Through bioarchaeological reconstruction of diet and health at the site of Cerro Del Oro, in the Canete Valley, the effects of demographic and subsistence changes can be examined....