Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari

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 "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium will present initial analysis of results from two excavation seasons in the Patipampa sector of Huari, Ayacucho, Peru. The Programa Arqueológico Prehistoria Urbana de Huari has revealed distinctive architecture and spatial organization, material culture, and faunal and botanical remains from a non-monumental sector of the Wari capital city. These data allow new insights on the organization of the site, economic and ritual activities, foodways, and the daily lives of the inhabitants. Through comparison with data from both the heartland and the hinterland of the Wari empire, this symposium explores how the findings from the Patipampa sector reflect on broader questions concerning Wari political economy, socio-political organization, and the nature of everyday life during the Middle Horizon.

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  • Death in the City: Huari Urban Tombs (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah Montgomery.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After declaring tombs to be absent from the Patipampa archaeological record on the basis of our 2017 excavations, this presentation discusses two mortuary contexts discovered at the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000) site of Patipampa in the capital city of Huari. Excavated during our 2018 field season,...

  • A Decorated Bone Pendant from Patipampa (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Critchley.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 2018 Patipampa excavations at Huari resulted in the discovery of a wealth of remarkable artifacts with potentially far-reaching implications for our understanding of Middle Horizon iconography, including a small bone pendant from a possible gallery space. This bone pendant was noted for a...

  • Eating and Empires: Stable Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Diet and Foodways in the Wari Heartland (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffiny A. Tung. Natasha P. Vang.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dietary patterns within a community can reveal insights into how communities were organized and how social class or gender roles could shape who had access to which foods. In this study, we use stable isotope analysis of archaeological humans and fauna from three Wari sites in the imperial heartland...

  • The End Is in Sight: Preliminary Findings for Terminal Middle Horizon Occupation at Huari (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany Fullen.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Continuing excavations at the domestic sector of Huari in 2018 (re)opened several structures whose occupation spanned the end of the Middle Horizon. The collapse of the Wari empire is not well understood, and the perspective these quotidian examples provide will help us continue to untangle what...

  • From the Ocean to the Mountain: Marine Shell in the Patipampa Sector, Huari, Ayacucho, Peru (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Halona Young-Wolfe.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations in the residential area of Patipampa in the city of Huari revealed a striking amount of marine shell. While a large percentage of this shell assembly is spondylus, other marine shell, such as mussel, is also present. The assemblage includes worked shell objects, unworked fragments and...

  • Investigating Huari Urban Residences: An overview of the 2017-18 Ceramic Styles (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Luz Antonio. William H. Isbell.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La cerámica huari ha sido definida como una gran oleada de varios estilos contemporáneos, con sus propias características y conviviendo con un estilo sobresaliente y diferente denominado Conchopata, el cual sirvió como marcador del inicio del Horizonte Medio. Gracias a las excavaciones en Huari y...

  • Investigating Huari Urban Residences: An Overview of the 2017-18 Excavations (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Isbell. Barbara Wolff. Ismael Perez Calderon. Gonzalo Rodriguez Carpio. J. Alberto Carbajal Alegre.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations in an ancient non-elite area of Patipampa, Huari reveal remarkable new information about vernacular environments of the early city. Architectural remains consist of a limited range of very distinctive buildings, where life was probably ground-oriented, and experience of the city...

  • A Microscopic Analysis of Inclusion Size in Middle Horizon 1 Ceramics from Huari (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Nadel.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Huari, the capital of an Andean conquest state during the Middle Horizon, contains ceramics of a multitude of local and foreign styles. While these styles have generally been defined by their outer appearances, it is still unclear whether they can also be distinguished according to their pastes. A...

  • Quispi Rumi: Geochemically Sourcing Obsidian from the Patipampa Sector of Huari (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Bronson Wistuk.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2017-2018, over 1,000 obsidian artifacts were excavated from the Patipampa sector of Huari, once the administrative capital of the Wari state. During the 2018 season, over 350 artifacts were analyzed via portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) and then fingerprinted to Andean obsidian sources when...

  • The Role of the Toad in the Middle Horizon Andes: A Chemical and Iconographic Analysis (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Laffey.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Here we present preliminary findings of chemical analyses performed on a Middle Horizon pottery sherd (c. 600-1100 AD). The sherd originates from the capital region of the Wari and has the striking iconographic representation of either a frog or a toad with visual indications of preserved residues....

  • Wari Foodways: A Comparison across Space (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvana Rosenfeld. Matthew Sayre.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The advances in food studies have revealed significant new information about life during the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000) in the central Andes of Peru. Botanical and faunal data from Wari affiliated sites shows differential use of at least two items: molle (Schinus molle) and guinea pigs (Cavia...

  • What is a Hill of Beans Really Worth?: Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Urban Huari Foodways (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Geoffrey Taylor.

    This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preliminary investigation into the use of plants at the site of Huari from the 2017 field season of the Programa Arqueológico Prehistoria Urbana de Huari resulted in new information placing the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) as a central component of the daily meal for those living in Patipampa in...