Andes: Late Horizon (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucia Diaz. Sarah I. Baitzel. Arturo F. Rivera Infante. Xinyi Liu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pastoral practices shape the responses of herders to environmental and sociopolitical changes. This paper uses stable isotope analysis to examine camelid herding strategies from pastoral settlements in the south-central Andes during a period characterized by climatic and political changes (8th-15th century CE). Samples from archaeological sites in Peru and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Turner.

This is an abstract from the "From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory: Exploring Ontologies of the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In just under a century, the Inka subjugated twelve million people across the Central Andes. As part of their governing strategies, Inca administrators relocated individuals and even entire communities throughout the empire for myriad purposes; this practice often produced constructed communities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolina Vilchez Carrasco.

This is an abstract from the "Humble Houses to Magnificent Monuments: Papers in Honor of Jerry D. Moore" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jerry Moore, desde el año 1996, ha realizado grandes contribuciones a la prehistoria de Tumbes, lugar con escasa investigación, ubicado en el extremo norte de la costa del Perú, frontera con Ecuador. Entre los años 2003 y 2007, excavó los sitios arqueológicos de El Porvenir (4750-1200 aC), Uña de Gato (2200-800...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Barnes.

This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines an aspect of John Victor Murra’s "A Study of Provincial Inca Life Project" (1963–1966), centered around the large Inca site of Huánuco Pampa. Archaeological survey was an important part of this multi-disciplinary endeavor. Probably...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Athens.

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inter-Andean landscape of northern highlands Ecuador, including the western upper montaña region, is dotted with clusters of large earthen mounds, many of monumental proportions that reach over 100 m on a side, 15 m in elevation, and have long ramps extending 150 m or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Carhuanina.

This is an abstract from the "Alfareros deste Inga: Pottery Production, Distribution and Exchange in the Tawantinsuyu" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La cerámica Inka en Vilcashuamán: Hacia el análisis de sus estilos En el marco del Proyecto del Tramo Vilcashuamán-La Centinela (Qhapac Ñan-Sede Nacional) desde el año 2017 se vienen realizando investigaciones arqueológicas en la Zona Monumental Vilcashuamán (Ayacucho, Perú), interviniéndose con...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hubert Quispe-Bustamante.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En las sociedades andinas como la Inka, la preocupación de las poblaciones agrícolas por el agua para sus cultivos conllevo a realizar dos tipos de obras: las obras hidráulicas que suministraban del líquido vital y las obras artísticas realizadas en las nacientes del agua donde coexistía un afloramiento rocoso de dimensiones monumentales. Estas obras...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe Delaere. José Capriles.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the Inca Empire expanded across the South American Andes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries CE, Lake Titicaca became its mythical place of origin and a major pilgrimage complex was built on the Island of the Sun. Nevertheless, before the Inca conquest Lake Titicaca was an inland sea that offered enormous socio-economic opportunities for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristian Gonzalez Rodriguez. Bill Sillar. Thibault Saintenoy.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carangas region, named after a late prehispanic and early colonial chiefdom in Qollasuyu (south-central Andes), preserves over 600 chullpa mausoleums associated with walled hilltops, administrative centers (tambos), and regional movement routes. Carangas’s chullpas exhibit a great diversity of architecture, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noa Corcoran Tadd.

The great silver mining centers of Potosí, Porco, and Oruro in the Bolivian highlands have long formed an important focus for understanding the Spanish colonial world, both for the colonial imagination and for the contemporary historian. In comparison with the contexts of production and exchange based around these mining centers, however, their wider contexts of mobility and logistics within the altiplano and the valleys leading west to the Pacific coast have been comparatively...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iride Tomazic. Jordan Dalton.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological and osteological analyses of burial features allow archaeologists to explore questions related to an individual’s life, activities, social status and potential role in society. This poster presents the analysis of a Late Horizon tomb from the site of Las Huacas in the Chincha Valley of Perú, with an emphasis on human skeletal remains. Las Huacas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Brown. Mark Willis. Chester Walker.

Remote sensing, including both low level aerial photography and subsurface geophysical methods, has become an increasingly key element in archaeological fieldwork over the last few decades. During that time, our team has used various techniques to accurately map late prehistoric Ecuadorian sites and to search for buried features. In the last two years we have used drone aerial photography, ground penetrating radar, and magnetometry to aid in investigations at the monumental site of Cochasquí....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Barnes. Sumru Aricanli.

This paper will discuss the chain of Andeanists that began with Adolphe Bandelier in the late 19th century and continued into the 20th century with Charles W. Mead, Ronald Olson, Wendell C. Bennett, Junius B. Bird, Harry and Marian Tschopik, James A. Ford, John Hyslop, and E. Craig Morris and continues to the present with various fellows and research associates. Although not formally affiliated with the AMNH, John V. Murra is a link in this chain because of his personal and theoretical influence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pacajes pottery is commonly found throughout Qullasuyu, the southern quarter of the Inka empire. Originating in Bolivia, it saw wider distribution after Inka expansion through the region. One specific form common of this style is a shallow plate decorated with small, black stylized llamas repeating at regular intervals over a red interior. Evidence for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Gonzáles Lombardi.

This is an abstract from the "Political Economies on the Andean Coast" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The peoples of the inner Piuran coast have a deep link with water management and agriculture that was consolidated around AD 1000 under the administration of local and foreign groups which densely occupied the Alto Piura (chaupiyunga) through administrative centers and irrigation systems. Using aerial photographs and RPA imagery, this research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Bongers.

This is an abstract from the "From the Paracas Culture to the Inca Empire: Recent Archaeological Research in the Chincha Valley, Peru" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I investigate the relationship between local mortuary practice and imperial conquest in the middle Chincha Valley of Peru, a landscape that was incorporated into the Inca Empire in the 15th century. Indigenous groups developed strategies for dealing with invasive imperial control. One...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sofia Chacaltana Cortez.

The effects of the Inca empire across the Andes were multiple and diverse. Relying on their sophisticated institutions, the empire originated a strong physical, political, and economic connectivity across the pre-Hispanic Andes that on occasions went beyond imperial boundaries or political borders. People, things and ideas travelled across the empire provoking a cascade of interactions some of which were not directly intended by the center of power. The multi-component site of Tacahuay located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Carter.

Shell beads are rarely considered a major artifact category. However, research on bead production among the Manteño-Guancavilca (AD 800-1532) of coastal Ecuador highlights the fundamental importance of this category of artifacts. By recording six measurements and four qualitative observations for each of 7651 beads from six sites (two regions, three stretches of time), this research has been able to recognize two distinct châines opératoires. At approximately AD 1200, bead makers shifted from a...

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 Sara Juengst. Sarah Rowe. Guy Duke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When Spanish explorers arrived in South America, sea-faring Manteño peoples dominated much of the northern and central Ecuadorian coast. While Manteño sites and technologies are well-documented, particularly at large sites such as Cerro Jaboncillo, many questions about Manteño society and mortuary traditions remain, particularly concerning people who lived on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the Inka expanded north at the end of the 15th century, they were met with fierce resistance from the País Caranqui societies in Northern Ecuador. A prolonged standoff occurred, visible in the plethora of fortresses along the northern frontier. Excavations completed by the Pambamarca Archaeology Project north of Quito at three Inka fortresses within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Kim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonial encounters with the Inka Empire led to social changes reflected in the landscape. A hallmark of Inka landscapes were their roads. I explore if the road network in the Camata-Carijana Valley materialized broader forms of state or local control through its distribution and construction. In particular, I investigate how the design of road system...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zach Chase. Steve Kosiba.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, historical and anthropological understanding of the late prehispanic Andes was based in large measure on the written texts produced during the periods of Spanish invasion and colonization. However, while scholarly work based on these documents has long emphasized that control and manipulation of social memory was central to the expansion of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyrus Banikazemi.

The ethnohistoric and archaeological records provide ample evidence of the ideological significance of metals and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world. This study explores the use of these materials in the complex decorative techniques utilized by the Inca when finishing stone vessels.This research integrates data generated from ethnohistoric sources, portable X-Ray Fluorescent (pXRF) tests, and reconstructive experimentation in order to provide a better understanding of how metals and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen Zori.

The Inka empire directed significant resources and labor towards the extraction of metals from the provinces. Using the examples of Porco (silver), Viña del Cerro (copper) and the Tarapacá Valley (copper and silver), this poster explores Inka strategies for obtaining metallurgical wealth. These case studies show that, as suggested by ethnohistoric sources, large-scale silver extraction was directly overseen by the state. In contrast to models of more indirect state involvement typically...