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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- Documents (12)
- Color Me Red: A Preliminary Examination of Pigments in the Moquegua Valley, Peru (2019)
- Comparison of Slip Colors from Andean Styles (2019)
- Differential Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in a LIP and Late Horizon Skeletal Sample of Southern Peru (2019)
- The Dirt on Cultural Diversity: Examining Occupation Floor Surfaces in the Moquegua Valley (2019)
- Getting to the Point: Wari Obsidian Distribution in Southern Peru (2019)
- Phytochemical Characterization of Chicha de Molle Production at Cerro Baúl (2019)
- Preliminary Analyses of Materials from the Terminal Terrestre, Moquegua, Peru (2019)
- Tiwanaku Pastoralism, Highland Bofedales, and Grasslands in Far Southern Peru: Creating a Strontium Baseline and Isoscape to Understand Cultural Connections (2019)
- Use-Wear Analysis of the Middle Horizon (2019)
- Wari State Expansion and Middle Horizon Roads in the Majes-Chuquibamba Region, Southern Peru (2019)
- Where-felines? An XRF-Based Sourcing of Tiwanaku's Chachapuma Sculptures (2019)
- The Zooarchaeology of Households at Las Peñas, a Late Intermediate Period site in the upper Torata Valley, Peru (2019)