Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session brings together scholars working on diverse aspects of the Casma State/Polity (ca. AD 1000-1450) from the perspective of the Casma Valley itself to well beyond. Presenters employ a variety of approaches towards archaeological practice and explore a range of data types ranging from ceramic analysis to landscape analysis to bioarchaeological analysis. The papers illuminate Casma State/Polity socio-political organization, its material culture, and the social dynamics of later pre-Hispanic periods more generally. The Casma State (alternatively Casma Polity or Casma Culture) has long lived in the shadow of more spectacular archaeological neighbors, even though mounting research suggests the Casma State was a significant political force in and around the Late Intermediate Period (ca. AD 1100-1400, though earlier and later dates are also known from Casma State/Polity sites). Despite an increasing number of studies investigating Casma style material culture and the Casma State in the eponymous valley and beyond - in the Culebras Valley, Nepeña Valley, Chao Valley, and indeed into the Andean foothills - this session is the first synthetic effort to collect and debate such diverse lines of research on the Casma State and its material culture.

Other Keywords
Andes: Late Intermediate • Ceramic Analysis • Architecture • Mortuary Analysis • Survey • Colonialism • Craft Production • Communities of Practice • Materiality • Hinterland

Geographic Keywords
Republic of Peru (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of Colombia (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Republic of Ecuador (Country) • Republic of Chile (Country) • South America (Continent) • South America: Andes

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  • The Cahuacucho Idol of the Casma culture (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mónica Suarez Ubillus. Iván Ghezzi.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2015 Suárez reported the discovery in the high parts of Cerro Cahuacucho (Sechin Valley) of a carved algarrobo (Prosopis sp.) tree trunk, over 2 m long and 118 kg in weight. It was carved on one side with the representation in profile of 5 felines....

  • Casma Occupation at Pan de Azúcar de Nepeña: Findings from the 2017 and 2018 PIAPAN Field Seasons (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Hurtubise.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1968 and 1973, Donald Proulx conducted surface surveys of the Nepeña Valley, registering sites spanning different time periods and cultural occupations. One of these sites, registered as PV31-29, is Pan de Azúcar de Nepeña, a Casma site consisting...

  • Estudio de la Arquitectura Monumental Casma en el sitio El Campanario, valle de Huarmey-Perú (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Eduardo Eche Vega. Jose L. Peña.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las construcciones monumentales públicas cobraron un rol importante dentro de la vida social, política, económica e ideológica de las sociedades complejas andinas. Estas sociedades complejas edificaron grandes estructuras de piedra y adobe destinadas...

  • Los Casma del Sur: Interpreting Domestic Activities at the Southern border of the Casma Polity. (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose L. Peña.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological research conducted at the El Campanario site, located in Peru’s Huarmey Valley, is oriented towards understanding Casma household production and consumption, which has resulted in the identification of various activities linked to...

  • The Middle Horizon Occupation of Pan de Azúcar de Nivín, Middle Casma Valley, Peru (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2017, the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Nivín has conducted architectural mapping, limited test excavations, surface collection, and analysis of associated materials from sites located in the middle Casma Valley. The research goals are...

  • Periurbanism in the Casma State: Preliminary Observations from the Olivar Archaeological Complex (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Pacifico.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Casma State played a major role in north-central coastal social and political developments in the Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate Period, circa AD 1000-1400. El Purgatorio served as the capital for much of that time, providing a central...

  • Vibrant Ruins and the Construction of Casma Ancestralized Landscapes: Preliminary Insights from the Lower Nepeña Valley (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Chicoine.

    This is an abstract from the "Casma State Material Culture and Society: Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Archaeological Evidence of a Re-emergent Ancient Polity" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In coastal Ancash, archaeologists have been puzzled by the presence of Casma style objects (~AD 800-1300) at archaeological sites with earlier cultural components. This has led to significant cultural historical and chronological confusion including...