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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandro Chu.

Incahuasi, located at the mid-valley of the Cañete river, is the largest Inca administrative center reported from Peru's Central Coast. Although first built as a military base by the Inca Tupac Yupanqui in his war against the Guarcos, the site was completely transformed into an administrative center with an extense and prominent storage facility. Recent research at the site has focused in Sector B, described as an elite residential complex. Excavations have found a significant number of finished...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline Correa. Ester Echenique. Calogero Santoro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Standardized Inka tunics or unku were created under the Inka State auspices as symbolic expressions of their expansionist power. To ensure these textiles acquired the status of effective insignias of territorial control, the Inka imposed technical and aesthetic canons on highly skilled weavers. These conventions were adapted relative to the traditions and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jia Tucker. Jennifer Muller.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking with, through, and against Archaeology’s Politics of Knowledge" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeology’s epistemological history is closely tied to that of paleopathology and medicine. Accounts of disease, injury, and death in the archaeological record are steeped in the medicalization of the body and of corporeal difference as defective and, therefore, requiring correction by practitioners and/or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Sherfield. Alicia Fritz. Ruth Brenton. Thomas Lobato. Michael Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chemical and osteological research comparing burials from different apartment compounds has found that people interred within Mazapa, Xolalpan, and La Ventilla apartment compounds have similar genetic history while people buried in Tlailotlacan held distinctly different genetic history. In this poster, we expand on this research through an analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florencio Delgado Espinoza.

According to the early Spanish chronicles, the Cañaris were a constellation of chiefdoms which fiercely challenged the Inka expansion to the north. Early Texts show that war and conflict was the way they interacted in the region. As a conquest strategy during Wayna Qhapac's rule, the Inkas built important infrastructure in their heartland, such as Tomebamba in Cuenca and Ingapirka in Hatún Cañar, in addition to other smaller sites along the Qhapac Ñan. However, the archaeological evidence for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Chiou. Di Hu. Andrew Warnes. Psyche Williams-Forson.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To food scholars, meals serve as microcosms of the world at large. Those interested in disentangling the complex relationship between food and structural inequality must simultaneously engage many dimensions of social life including class, race, ethnicity, gender, status, ritual, and religion. Since Kimberlé Crenshaw's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Hoffman.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Janet D. Spector is best known for her groundbreaking work in Feminist Archaeology and collaborative research but she also made significant contributions beyond archaeology. Spector helped form the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Minnesota in 1973, the first in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandre Tokovinine. Sandra Balanzario Granados. Dmitri Beliaev. Clara Alexander. Dana Moot.

This is an abstract from the "The Rise and Apogee of the Classic Maya Kaanu’l Hegemonic State at Dzibanche" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Re-documentation and analysis of inscribed monuments from the archaeological site of Dzibanche and its vicinity have revealed new details of the history of the Kaanu’l polity during the Classic period. The presentation centers in particular on the narratives recovered from the hieroglyphic stairways of El...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Flores-Blanco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extent to which emergent complexity involved hierarchical organization in small-scale societies remains an unresolved anthropological question. The research presented here examines inequality among individuals buried some 5,000 years ago at the Kaillachuro burial mound site in the southwestern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru. This is the earliest known mound...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Symons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I present an analysis of Early Bronze Age (EBA) faunal remains from field investigations conducted between 1998 and 2018 in the Tsaghkahovit plain of northern Armenia by the joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS). The vast majority of Project ArAGATS’s EBA fauna...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iyaxel Cojti-Ren.

This is an abstract from the "Regimes of the Ancient Maya" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Late Postclassic period (AD 1250–1524), the deities called k’ab’awil had an important role in the formation of collective identities in the Maya highlands, together with the language and the territory. In the political field, the k’ab’awil were vital in integrating the peoples that fell under K’iche’ rule and with whom they maintained dependency...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Bogucki.

This is an abstract from the "Wheels, Horses, Babies and Bathwaters: Celebrating the Impact of David W. Anthony on the Study of Prehistory" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sites of the Lengyel Culture are found from the Drava River in Croatia to the lowlands of northern Poland during the fifth millennium BC. While the Lengyel Culture is clearly in the great "Danubian" tradition as a successor to the first farmers of this area several centuries...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Davis.

In the latter part of the Middle Horizon (A.D. 800-1000) previously unoccupied areas around the megalithic ceremonial core of Tiwanaku came under settlement. A reorganization of space within the core coupled with the influx of new urban residents drawn to the site of Tiwanaku from the surrounding areas by the variety of social, economic, and ritual interactional opportunities meant that newly built households and neighborhoods further away from the monuments became the loci of quotidian...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kennedy.

Mineral mining was a critical driver of the Peruvian economy during the early colonial period (AD 1550 – 1700). Peru's mineral wealth was used to fund the Spanish empire's geopolitical domination, often at the expense of indigenous Peruvians. Many were forced to labor in distant mines and work camps, decimating local communities. The south-central highlands of Peru were an especially rich area for mineral exploitation and mines, work camps, and processing mills have been identified throughout...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Torrico-Ávila.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Robinson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Surveillance: Seeing and Power in the Material World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The early Chinese empires, the Qin and Han, governed their lands and peoples using an army of bureaucrats who were responsible for, among other things, creating a vast quantity of administrative documents. Of particular interest to the state was the population—the governments kept population registries, updated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Fulkerson. Shannon Tushingham.

This is an abstract from the "Documenting Demographics in Archaeological Publications and Grants" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent resurgence of interest in diversity and equity issues in archaeological practice highlights persistent disparities in the demographic composition of practitioners in various aspects of the discipline. Drawing from a database that we generated on the gender and occupational affiliation of 5,010 authors of 2,445...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Nuñez. Alejandro Chu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se ha conceptualizado que la relación entre un imperio arcaico y una sociedad conquistada ondula entre dos polos: el hegemónico y el territorial. Ambos sistemas conllevan distintas estrategias, las cuales son aplicadas según los deseos del imperio, pero también atendiendo a las características locales, sean geográficas, políticas y sociales. Los inkas no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Dye.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within a hundred years of Cahokia’s Big Bang around AD 1050, warfare becomes evident in the construction of defensive structures, especially massive, bastioned palisades. The first of these palisades at Cahokia dates to ca. AD 1135 and stands as the earliest Mississippian fortified community. This signaling of intensive and organized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Wilson. Kasey Cole. Brian Codding.

This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding what favors egalitarian versus non-egalitarian resource access and patterns of behavior is a long-standing topic of interest, with much research narrowing in on potential social and environmental causes. Past modeling exercises have implemented game theoretic and simulation approaches to explore social patterns that may underlay...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Luley.

The Roman conquest of Mediterranean Gaul between 125-121 B.C. significantly altered the Celtic societies living in the region. Two of these dramatic transformations were the increasing use of coins in economic transactions, and a marked rise in socio-economic inequality within the conquered province. This paper examines the connections in Roman Mediterranean Gaul of the first century B.C. through the first century A.D. between the emergence of a monetized economy, debt, and increased...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Diserens Morgan.

A national narrative glorifying the deep past of Mexico was formed using archaeological sites. The government has gone to great lengths to rebuild and preserve many ancient indigenous sites and objects for use as national symbols and as a draw for tourism. However, this practice has contributed to the ‘othering’ of indigenous groups by placing the ‘mysterious Indians’ firmly in the past, and restricting the access of descendant communities. Working within a modern Maya community, the members...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Cancho Ruiz. Alicia Gorman.

This is an abstract from the "Developments through Time on the South Coast of Peru: In Memory of Patrick Carmichael" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nuestra investigación busca entender la relación entre la religión y la política en contextos domésticos durante la época Nasca. Es así que Cerro Tortolita (valle de alto de Ica), dada su naturaleza y escala constructiva; el cual incluye un componente ceremonial y otro residencial; constituye un sitio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Evans.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The European conquest of the Aztec Empire was eased by strong parallels in Aztec and European courtly behavior in their respective (and contemporaneous) chronological periods, the Late Postclassic (1430–1521) and Renaissance (various dates, 1300s to about 1600). Elite marital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Chazin.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pastoralism in a Global Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anthropological approaches to value assert that creating and contesting value is at the heart of politics. Herd animals offer a complex window into this basic theoretical insight—they are simultaneously producers of and objects of value and their value cannot be easily reduced to the categories of economic or symbolic value. Analyzing...