Andes: Middle Horizon (Other Keyword)
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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. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis is employed to assess diet in times of Wari influence in the southern hinterlands between the early (600–800 CE) and late (800–1000 CE) Middle Horizon (MH). We analyze bone collagen from 57 individuals interred at La Real, corresponding to two chronologically distinct mortuary contexts at this Majes Valley site...
Digital Connoisseurship: Applications of Machine Learning to Moche Iconography (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the absence of a written language, the study of the complex narrative iconography of the Moche or Mochica culture of the North Coast of Perú (250-900CE) forms an important foundation of our understanding of the cultural dynamics and ritual traditions of this Pre-Columbian society. Fineline iconography on Moche ceramic vessels in museum and private...
The Dirt on Cultural Diversity: Examining Occupation Floor Surfaces in the Moquegua Valley (2019)
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. The recent rise in the availability of literature on the topic soil chemical analysis has inspired growing interest in evaluating soils at archaeological sites to gain a more detailed picture of the lives and culture of the people that once lived there. Through soil analysis, we can better define areas once used for residential...
Disturbing the Ancestors: Interpreting Early Intermediate Period Commingled Remains at La Iglesia, Huanchaco Perú (2018)
While the Inca, Moche, and Chimu cultures boast grand sites along the north coast of Perú, much is to be learned about the earlier Gallinazo (50 BC/100 AD–500 AD) Salinar (200 BC–200 AD), and Cupisnique (ca. 1500–300 BC) cultures from small, coastal settlements. The 2017 field season of the Programa Arqueologico Huanchaco investigated these earlier Peruvian cultures during a five week excavation near the Iglesia de Huanchaco, approximately 15 km northeast of the Huacas de Moche. Initial ceramic...
Drinking Together: The Role of Foodways in the Wari and Huaracane Colonial Encounter in the Moquegua Valley, Peru (2018)
Food is a unique form of material culture, representing a multiplicity of ethnic, gender, racial, political, and economic identities, that is consumed and reaffirmed through daily practice. In this way, food remains provide a nuanced perspective on a variety of archaeological issues. This paper focuses on Wari imperial expansion and how foodways enabled both Wari colonists and local peoples to negotiate the colonial experience during the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000), Peru. Using...
Eating and Empires: Stable Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Diet and Foodways in the Wari Heartland (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dietary patterns within a community can reveal insights into how communities were organized and how social class or gender roles could shape who had access to which foods. In this study, we use stable isotope analysis of archaeological humans and fauna from three Wari sites in the imperial heartland...
Echoes in the Wake of Collapse: Cultural Connectivity during the Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Period in the Lower Ica Valley, Peru (2018)
This paper examines what happened to cultural connectivity on the south coast in the wake of Wari’s collapse based on our ongoing investigations at the site of H-8 in the lower Ica Valley. We investigate in particular how the echoes of the Middle Horizon resonate in the genesis of the Late Intermediate Ica culture that emerged here thereafter. We present evidence that H-8 was first founded at this time (c. 1000CE), and operated as a caravanserai within an intensifying network of trade and...
Elite Craft Specialists and Artists at Castillo de Huarmey (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is increasing archaeological evidence that in the Wari Empire prestigious objects were fashioned by artists belonging to the elite. The archaeological excavations at the royal necropolis of Castillo de Huarmey provide important insights into the craft production of luxury goods during the Middle Horizon period....
Elites, Craftsmen, or . . . Commoners? Ten Years of Bioarchaeological Research at Castillo de Huarmey (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the last 10 years, the multidisciplinary Polish-Peruvian archaeological project at Castillo de Huarmey brought to light numerous finds. Some of the most significant research consists of wide-scale bioarchaeological analyses of human and animal remains originating from both undisturbed and looted burials. The most...
Embodied Empire: Life and Death of Wari Elites from Castillo de Huarmey (2018)
The discovery of an undisturbed burial context at Castillo de Huarmey, bringing to light remains of Wari immediate elite members, finally embodied long discussed highest social levels of Wari Imperial elites. Until that time they characteristic was derived almost exclusively from indirect sources, mainly material remains of high quality material culture and architecture. Now, there is a chance to get a glimpse on their actual life stories, occupation, and to see their faces. Analysis of the...
The End Is in Sight: Preliminary Findings for Terminal Middle Horizon Occupation at Huari (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Continuing excavations at the domestic sector of Huari in 2018 (re)opened several structures whose occupation spanned the end of the Middle Horizon. The collapse of the Wari empire is not well understood, and the perspective these quotidian examples provide will help us continue to untangle what...
The End of Tiwanaku (2021)
This is an abstract from the "A New Horizon: Reassessing the Andean Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000) and Rethinking the Andean State" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The manner in which a polity collapses reveals a crucial facet of the relationship between the residents of the site and the surrounding population. For example, a brief, destructive end could indicate an adversarial relationship that boils over into a violent outbreak against an...
Enduring Traditions, Material Transformations: Understanding Wari State Influence in Highland Ancash, Peru (2018)
Scholars have debated the nature of Wari state expansion during the Middle Horizon in north-central Peru for decades, suggesting both top-down imperialism and local resistance. While our paper does not aim to resolve this issue, we put previously reported datasets into conversation to examine both social change and cultural resilience in the Middle Horizon (MH). We draw on ceramic and mortuary evidence from the Callejón de Huaylas region of highland Ancash and identify the incorporation of a...
Entangled Human and Nonhuman Life Histories: A Glance into the Perceived Value of Camelid Identity from the Central Andes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A multispecies approach to archaeology creates the potential for inclusive debate on the value of identity among both human and nonhuman beings. This paper explores the way that camelid life histories where shaped by and influenced sociopolitical relationships among the Late Moche...
Ephemeral Objects: An Alternative Perspective on the Maquetas of San Jose de Moro (2018)
This presentation examines the collection of unfired clay models, or maquetas, from the Moche site of San José de Moro, Peru, proposing an interpretation focused on their unique materiality and position within the artistic corpus at the site. A renewed focus on Moche architectural representation treats these three-dimensional models as miniaturized, mimetic sculptures of monumental buildings, often used to understand the function of ceremonial space in the past. As of 2012, fifty maquetas have...
Estilo Cerámicos del Horizonte Medio en Quilcapampa (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavaciones arqueológicas en el sitio de Quilcapampa. Arequipa, dieron como resultado el hallazgo de fragmentos cerámicos del Horizonte Medio cuya iconografía y estilos tienen estrecha relación con la cultura Wari, el hallazgo incluye a formas de vasijas y diseños de la época 1B y 2A (estilos Chakipampa,...
Estudios de las especies de moluscos en Quilcapampa La Antigua. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El sitio arqueológico de Quilcapampa se ubica en la margen derecha del valle medio del rio Sihuas al sur de Perú. Los datos recuperados durante dos temporadas de campo lo ubican cronológicamente en el Horizonte Medio, asociándolo directamente a la cultura Wari, evidenciando actividades específicas, entre...
Evaluating Wari Impact on Regional Trade Networks: Patterns of Obsidian Exchange in Cusco, Peru before and during the Middle Horizon (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Horizon (600-1000 CE) in the Central Andes was a time of important changes due to the expansion of the Wari and Tiwanaku states. Many scholars have argued that these polities, the Wari in particular, had a major economic impact on local communities, including the disruption of regional exchange networks and the reorientation of long-distance trade...
Every Day Hath a Night: Nightlife and Religion in the Wari Empire, Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape & Lightscape of Ancient Cities" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What was daily life like after sundown in the ancient city of Wari, Peru? What events took place and who was involved in them? In this paper, activities of the night and the sacred rituals that occurred in the ancient capital of the Wari Empire are explored from evidence that denotes the advanced practice of...
Examining Inter-regional Interaction in the Tiwanaku State (C.E. 500-1100) using 87Sr/86Sr Analysis of Building Material from a Provincial Ceremonial Center (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent approaches to inter-regional interaction emphasizing the study of heterogenous identities in peripheral contexts advance scholarly debate about sociopolitical organization in the archaic Andean state of Tiwanaku (C.E. 500-1100). The present study employs 87Sr/86Sr analysis to determine the source region of four archaeological ichu grass (Stipa ichu)...
An Exploration of Perimeter Wall Architecture at the Terminal Middle Horizon Site of Los Batanes, Sama, Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological survey and excavation at the coastal desert site of Los Batanes, a Late Middle Horizon-Early Intermediate Period settlement of highlanders in the Sama Valley, southern Peru, have revealed mortuary and residential site components as well as a perimeter wall enclosing the site. Here I report on the findings of perimeter wall excavations in 2018...
Foodways and Urban Living: A Macrobotanical Analysis of Huari Homes (2018)
Knowledge of Wari plant use has progressed significantly with analyses from sites such as Conchopata and Cerro Baul, but there has yet to be any investigation into Wari plant foodways at the capital city of Huari. This paper will investigate the botanical remains from flotation samples recovered throughout the 2017 excavations of Patipampa, a domestic sector of the site occupied during the Middle Horizon (AD 500-1000). For years, it has been assumed that the emergence of the Wari state in...
The Force Awakens: The Nature and Chronology of Wari Presence in the Huarmey Valley (2018)
Since the fundamental work of Dorothy Menzel, it has been suggested that a new center of power and prestige arose on the North-Central Coast of Peru during the late Middle Horizon, and that its focal point was probably located in the Huarmey Valley. Unfortunately, this hypothesis has not been empirically confirmed for more than 40 years, due to the lack of strong evidence based on systematic archaeological research. Since 2010 an international team of scholars performs multidisciplinary research...
From Discrete Frontiers to Cross-Cutting Religious Networks: Religious Monuments and Cultural Syncretism in the Peruvian North Coast and Highland, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries AD (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Them and Us: Transmission and Cultural Dynamism in the North of Peru between AD 250 and 950: A Vision since the Recent Northern Investigations" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonialist perspectives of territorial expansion envision the political entities as spatially defined by discrete frontier boundaries. Under this approach, the distribution of objects a given cultural style parallels the area of influence of the...
From the Ocean to the Mountain: Marine Shell in the Patipampa Sector, Huari, Ayacucho, Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations in the residential area of Patipampa in the city of Huari revealed a striking amount of marine shell. While a large percentage of this shell assembly is spondylus, other marine shell, such as mussel, is also present. The assemblage includes worked shell objects, unworked fragments and...