Exploring Culture Contact and Diversity in Southern Peru
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 "Exploring Culture Contact and Diversity in Southern Peru," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Culture contact has been a driver of stylistic change and ethnogenesis in the southern valleys of Peru since the Formative Period. During the Middle Horizon, local groups reacted to contact with the Wari and Tiwanaku polities. Interactions with intrusive colonists resulted in broadly shared stylistic features but also generated greater stylistic cultural heterogeneity. In the periods that followed, which saw the blending of highland and coastal traditions within the valleys of the southern Andes, further diversification took place. This is especially true for the Moquegua valley, where communities produced goods representing Cabuza, Tumilaca, Chiribaya, Estuquiña, Gentilar, and San Miguel styles during the Late Intermediate Period. These groups selectively retained elements of Middle Horizon material culture and combined these with new motifs and production technologies. Many of these groups also occupy neighboring valleys, and thus during the LIP different groups existed in contact with one another prior to the arrival of the Inka Empire. The southern valleys of Peru have a rich history of local cultural diversity punctuated by periods of engagement with intrusive polities. The goal of this session is to explore the multiple ways people signaled cultural diversity in Southern Peru through various archaeological analyses.
Other Keywords
Andes: Middle Horizon •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: XRF/pXRF •
Andes: Late Intermediate •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Frontiers and Borderlands •
Mortuary Analysis •
Zooarchaeology •
Survey •
Use-Wear Analysis •
Pastoralism
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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Color Me Red: A Preliminary Examination of Pigments in the Moquegua Valley, Peru (2019)
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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. This preliminary study explores how pigments were sourced and manufactured in the Moquegua valley of southern Peru. The ethnohistoric and archaeological records provide ample evidence of the economic, religious, and social significance of colors and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world; however, there currently exists little...
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Comparison of Slip Colors from Andean Styles (2019)
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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. Rescue excavations conducted at the Terminal Terrestre site in Moquegua, Peru recovered a diverse collection of complete ceramic vessels representing several styles dating to Terminal Middle Horizon (900-1100 CE), Late Intermediate period (1100-1400 CE), and Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE). Through the use of portable X-Ray...
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Differential Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in a LIP and Late Horizon Skeletal Sample of Southern Peru (2019)
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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 Moquegua Valley of southern Peru is known for multiple studies regarding the presence, origin, and evolution of tuberculosis in the pre-contact Americas. These studies have primarily focused on tuberculosis in Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate Period contexts and the continued presence and evolution of the disease during...
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The Dirt on Cultural Diversity: Examining Occupation Floor Surfaces in the Moquegua Valley (2019)
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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...
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Getting to the Point: Wari Obsidian Distribution in Southern Peru (2019)
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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. Recent geochemical studies in the Andes have shown that obsidian was moved over long distances throughout prehistory. Yet as Burger et al. (2000) suggested, the mobilization of obsidian during the Middle Horizon was unparalleled in quantity and scope. In this poster, I consider the relationship between lithic source, reduction...
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Phytochemical Characterization of Chicha de Molle Production at Cerro Baúl (2019)
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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. Converging evidence from archaeological excavations and ethnographic research in the Peruvian Andes has demonstrated that the indigenous alcoholic beverage chicha de molle has a time depth of at least the Middle Horizon (600 CE – 1000 CE). The most impressive example of large-scale, pre-Hispanic production of chicha de molle hails...
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Preliminary Analyses of Materials from the Terminal Terrestre, Moquegua, Peru (2019)
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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. Archaeological investigations in Moquegua indicate that this valley has been the site of multi-ethnic imperial processes since the Middle Horizon. Large cemetery sites in Moquegua have largely dated to the Middle Horizon Period, however, and thus little work has focused on the transition between the Late Intermediate Period and...
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Tiwanaku Pastoralism, Highland Bofedales, and Grasslands in Far Southern Peru: Creating a Strontium Baseline and Isoscape to Understand Cultural Connections (2019)
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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. Camelid pastoralism was an economic mainstay of the Tiwanaku Empire (~AD 600-1000). Communities of colonists in Moquegua, Peru were connected to their Tiwanaku capital near Lake Titicaca through an informal trade route traversing the altiplano. One component of Tiwanaku hegemony involved the movement of goods via llama caravans...
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Use-Wear Analysis of the Middle Horizon (2019)
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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. Use-wear analysis is a qualitative method of study that observes abrasion patterns on material remains. Wear traces can come from stirring, lids, storage techniques, and other culinary practices. Apparent wear patterns and abrasion coarseness are features that help infer the use of different vessel forms. I applied this technique...
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Wari State Expansion and Middle Horizon Roads in the Majes-Chuquibamba Region, Southern Peru (2019)
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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. This project investigates the social mechanisms behind culture change and contact in Peru’s southern coastal valleys through the lens of road infrastructure: i.e. the built networks of communication, travel, and commerce. Here we present recent investigations of a pre-Inca road network in the Majes/Chuquibamba region of Arequipa....
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Where-felines? An XRF-Based Sourcing of Tiwanaku's Chachapuma Sculptures (2019)
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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. Turnovers in political and religious authority in the ancient Titicaca Basin correspond with significant, intentional shifts in material procurement practices. During the 5th century AD, the developing Tiwanaku elite asserted a new ideological hegemony through a novel monumental and iconographic tradition. Tiwanaku masons also...
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The Zooarchaeology of Households at Las Peñas, a Late Intermediate Period site in the upper Torata Valley, Peru (2019)
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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 Late Intermediate Period (LIP; ca. 1000CE-1450CE) site of Las Peñas is located in the sierra of the upper Torata valley in southern Peru. Laboratory analyses of faunal remains recovered during the 2016 excavation of households at Las Peñas provide insight into domestic life during the LIP, as well as environmental and...