A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Since 2010, an international team of scholars has performed multidisciplinary research at Castillo de Huarmey, a Middle Horizon (AD 650–1050) coastal provincial center and Wari necropolis, where an imperial mausoleum with the first undisturbed Wari high-status women’s tomb and other elite burials was discovered. Using a broad methodological spectrum, including bioarchaeological, zooarchaeological, and biogeochemical analyses, alongside archaeometry, geoarchaeology, 3D HDS scanning, and architectural analysis, the archaeologists have brought to light a Middle Horizon cultural panorama and the nature and chronology of Wari imperial presence in this northwestern province. As a part of a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the aforementioned discovery, this session will focus on the ideological impact, material footprint, Wari’s ancestor worship, and the links between gender and power that can be observed in the burials and public architecture from this unique precolumbian archaeological site.