From Foragers to Empires: Recent Research on the South Coast of Peru

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

From Paracas and Nasca to the Inca Empire, for thousands of years the South Coast of Peru was a hub for the evolution of indigenous societies in the Andes. This symposium focuses on the most recent research undertaken on the South Coast. From the dry Nasca Valley to the Paracas Peninsula, from the coast to the highlands, and from the Middle Preceramic through the colonial and Republican period, participants focus on foodways, ritual, pilgrimage, exchange, production, identity and a host of other issues that shed new light on our understanding of this region's prehistory.

Other Keywords
Nasca • Ceramics • Agriculture • Architecture • Historical Archaeology • Ceremonial Center • Social Change • Geoglyph • Art History • Ceremonialism

Geographic Keywords
South America

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-15 of 15)

  • Documents (15)
Documents
  1. The 2014 Excavations at Cerro Tortolita, an Early Intermediate Period Ceremonial Center in the Upper Ica Valley. (2015)
  2. THE BODY AND THE ANCESTOR: COMPARING EVIDENCE OF INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AT PARACAS NECROPOLIS (2015)
  3. Building control: architecture and the regimentation of daily life in eighteenth century Santa Cruz de Lancha, Peru (2015)
  4. Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from the Las Trancas Valley, Nasca, Perú. (2015)
  5. Connecting the Pre-Columbian Past to the Present in South Coastal Peru: The Archaeology of the Colonial and Republican Haciendas of Nasca (2015)
  6. Early Maize on the South Coast? (2015)
  7. The Human/Animal Continuum in Nasca Sculptural Ceramics (c. 1-450) (2015)
  8. INVESTIGATIONS AT THE MOUTH OF THE RÍO ICA, PERU: A PRECERAMIC RECORD OF RICH SEAS, FOG-MEADOWS, INCIPIENT AGRICULTURE AND SHIFTING SHORELINES (2015)
  9. Investigations of Nasca-Wari Interaction and Imperial Expansion during the Middle Horizon: A View from the Las Trancas Valley, Nasca, Peru. (2015)
  10. LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Nasca Ceramics from the Residential Sector at Cerro Tortolita, Ica, Peru (2015)
  11. Nasca Lines, Ceramic Sherds, and Social Changes: Recent Investigation at the Nasca Pampas, Southern Coast of Peru. (2015)
  12. Ni la costa ni la sierra: The Archaeology of the Upper Nasca River Basin (2015)
  13. A Second Room of the Posts? Ceremonialism at La Marcha during Late Nasca and the Middle Horizon (2015)
  14. Towards an understanding of the transition from Paracas to Nasca from a household perspective: Interpreting changes in ceramic consumption at Uchuchuma (2015)
  15. Un nuevo patrón arquitectónico de la cultura Paracas en la sierra sur del Perú (2015)