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The Production of Blackware Pottery at Pachacamac and the Lurín Valley, Peru, during the Late Horizon: A Multi-method Approach (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davenport. Frances Hayashida. Brandi MacDonald. Jeff Ferguson.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While pottery made to look black has existed in many regions in the Andes and through many time periods, the style sees widespread distribution and use during the Late Horizon, particularly in Inka contexts. Often made through firing in a reducing environment, blackware was a style common to the Chimú empire (located on Peru’s north coast),...