After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
What happens in the north highlands of Peru after Chavín? The current record indicates major cultural transformations, which manifested in many regions and scales. The most prominent developments are associated with major population centers and complexes, yet there has been scant explicit comparison. The orthodox account involves the proliferation of large demographic centers associated with strategic hilltops at the expense of ceremonial centers. Parallel to this is the move away from priestly elites to more secular leaders, more typical of lineage and village heads (kurakas), often “chiefly” leaders who emerge to manage aspects of production (e.g., surplus, herding, warfare, irrigation). But is this right? To what extent do we see variability across the north highlands and adjacent regions? How good is the analogy to historical forms? This session explores post-Chavín “centers” and cultures, taking stock of changing patterns of exchange, stylistic interaction, and pathways to authority. Contributors explore, among other things, the kinds of social interactions encouraged through centers, and perhaps just as important, silenced by them; the ways centers embody, symbolize, and condition people; foci of social life and cosmopolitics in the rise of native leadership and corporate living; Chavín material legacies; and processes of sacralization and de-sacralization.
Other Keywords
Andes: Formative •
Social and Political Organization •
Andes: Early Horizon •
Survey •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis •
Andes: Middle Horizon •
Architecture •
Dating Techniques •
Textile Analysis •
Landscape Archaeology
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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Before the Cults of the Condor and Catequil: The Pre-Recuay Occupation at Pashash, Ancash, Peru (ca. 500 BCE–100 CE) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent field investigations at the hilltop site of Pashash clarify key diachronic changes during the rise of segmentary lordships in the Pallasca highlands of northern Ancash, Peru. Ceramic, radiocarbon, architectural, and ancillary contextual evidence help to reveal local cultural patterns tracking the Pashash...
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Cuisine and Craft at Ancient Hualcayán: Exploring Ceremonial Production during the Chavín to Recuay Transition (900 BCE–1000 CE) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we explore the production techniques, provenances, and uses of the pottery and foods important for different kinds of ceremonies throughout the Chavín to Recuay transition at Hualcayán, an ancient community located in the Callejón de Huaylas valley of highland Ancash, Peru. Ritual celebrations...
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Cultural Continuity and Ritual Significance: Apu Illaorco (Iscoconga) and Apu Rumitiana (Santa Apolonia) in Focus (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation unveils the findings of more than eight years of research in the Cajamarca Valley, focusing on two distinct Caxamarca sites from the Early Intermediate and Middle Horizon periods. Iscoconga or Apu Illaorco, investigated since 2017, served as a center for pottery production and pastoralism. The...
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Cultural Transformations in Conchucos after 500 BC (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The decline of the Chavín Interaction Sphere in the mid-first millennium BC was followed by major religious, cultural, and economic changes over a wide region of highland and coastal Peru. In this paper, we discuss these phenomena from the perspective of our ongoing research in the Chavín heartland of...
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Current Research on Early Social Change in the Utcubamba Basin (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In contrast to a long history of study of the Late Intermediate period societies of the Utcubamba Basin, research focusing on pre-Middle Horizon social change has only begun within the last 10 years. In this paper we examine existing literature from early archaeological contexts and introduce findings from our...
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Huanca Stone and Ancestor Veneration at Cerro San Isidro, Middle Nepeña Valley, Peru (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Moro region of the middle Nepeña Valley, on the western slopes of the north-central Peruvian Andes, the fifth century BCE marked a major social crisis, perhaps best seen in endemic armed conflicts, unfinished monumental buildings, and the demise of Chavín-related artistic programs. In this balkanized...
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Monumental Afterlives of Chavín Mountains at Chawin Punta and Kunturay in Pasco, Peru (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The breakdown of Chavín interregional networks at the end of the Early Horizon had variable outcomes for high-altitude ceremonial centers in the Central Andes of Pasco, Peru. Within the Chaupihuaranga Canyon, neighboring mountaintop monuments have distinct sociohistorical trajectories that complicate temporal...
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Practicas textiles y complejidad social Recuay: Nuevas evidencias de Pashash (Ancash, Perú) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recientes investigaciones en Pashash revela nuevos datos para comprender la complejidad social de los grupos Recuay en la sierra norcentral, Perú (200-600 dC). Esta ponencia se enfoca en el material textil hallado junto a otros objetos en un contexto de ofrenda de elite. El análisis de hilos y restos textiles...
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The Ties That Bind (and Break): Persistence and Upheaval in the Post-Chavín Landscapes of the Carabamba Plateau and Moche/Virú Chaupiyungas (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the dusk of Chavín, the traditional narrative for the Virú and Moche Valleys—as well as many parts of the Northern Andes—has been one of conflict and upheaval. Though the late Early Horizon (~500–200 BCE) and Early Intermediate period (~200 BCE–600 CE) landscapes in these areas surely saw an explosion...
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The Upper Marañón after Chavín and before the LIP: Glimpse into Poorly Documented Times (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the Late Intermediate period (LIP) in the upper Marañón region is well known for its unique surface stone architecture such as tall multistoried tombs, the periods immediately following the Early Horizon are still poorly documented and understood. Nonetheless, excavations at the site of Rapayán in Ancash...