Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1
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 "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Long-term research in the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex on the north coast of Peru, conducted by an international, collaborative team of archaeologists, has offered important insights into changing social organization, political structures, and ritual practices over the last 2,000 years in the ancient central Andes. Situated on the southern margin of the Jequetepeque Valley, the complex includes over 25 km2 of monumental architecture, domestic zones, relict fields, and abandoned canals dating from the Formative period to the Spanish colonial era. Sustained archaeological analysis of well-preserved contexts has facilitated analysis of macroscale sociocultural processes that unfolded across the central Andean region. Indeed, the Jequetepeque Valley, the “Crossroads of Empire,” marks an important contact zone between the highlands and the coast and between the northern and southern Moche regions, offering alternative perspectives on dominant archaeological narratives. In this session, we focus on the Late Formative, Late Moche, Transitional (Early Lambayeque), and Late Intermediate period components, examining ritual modes of place-making, intergenerational memory, variable materializations of house and home, and differential enactments of kinship and collectivity. By juxtaposing data from different time periods, we situate sociopolitical transition as an agent-driven process and understand human efforts to build bridges across time, space, and species.
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Andes: Middle Horizon •
Architecture •
ontology •
Ideology •
Zooarchaeology •
Andes: Formative •
Ritual and Symbolism •
and Memory •
Environment •
Survey
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Republic of Peru (Country) •
Republic of Panama (Country) •
Republic of Colombia (Country) •
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South America: Andes
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Archaeological Immersion and the Rhythmanalysis of Place: Experimental Virtual Reality Spatial Analysis at Jatanca (Je-1023), Peru (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The phenomenon of place as it is rhythmically embodied, akin to a fabric that is collectively worn and interwoven over successive generations, unfolds at the center of our presentation. We explore the intricate meshwork of place-making, applying an...
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Feeding the Body and Mind: Artistic Genesis through Blurring Species Boundaries (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Moche artistic representations are known for their composite images of plants, animals, humans, and supernatural forms. The genesis of this artistic tradition rests in the beliefs about the relations between species, environments, and worlds. Food...
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An Introduction to the Cultural Sequence of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intensive archaeological excavations of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex in the Jequetepeque Valley (north coast of Peru) have underlined the enduring importance of this region to a sequence of precolumbian communities over the past 2,500 years....
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Life, Death, and Renewal: The Collective Experience of Performative Ritual at Huaca Colorada (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sector B, the principal monumental area of Huaca Colorada, has long been understood as the locus of rites of social and cosmic rebirth, ancestor veneration, and genealogical continuity. Excavation has revealed a ritual canon that included the...
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Middle Horizon Residence and Production at Huaca Colorada: Sectors A and C in Comparative Perspective (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since excavations began at the Late Moche and Middle Horizon ceremonial center of Huaca Colorada (ca. 750–920 CE) in 2009, its expansive residential and production zones have attracted much attention for their ephemeral architecture. Largely located...
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Reciprocal Feasting and Access to Foodstuffs at Huaca Colorada (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Feasting has long been acknowledged as a central element in Andean social and economic life. Crucial to this emphasis on feasting during the Late Moche period (AD 600–850) is the need for tribute and the redistribution of the goods brought in by...
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Sacred Landscape, Mesocosm, and Cosmology: The Late Formative Period at Jequetepeque-Jatanca (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How does architectural construction relate to the surrounding landscape and a broader cosmological framework? This paper discusses the relationship among architecture, geography, and cosmology at the site of Jequetepeque-Jatanca in the Jequetepeque...
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States of Vulnerability: Examining Moche Era Practices of Care in Life and Death (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The way that communities cared for their living and dead holds great potential to elucidate the cosmovision of the Moche. Ritual practices during the Moche period involved human offerings that include women, children, and men at different stages of...
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Twenty Years of Interpretations from the Late Formative period Site of Jatanca (JE-1023), Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will provide a retrospective of archaeological work that has been done at the Late Formative period site of Jatanca, located in the Pampa Mojucape of the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru. Since 2004, the architecture, ceramics, and surrounding...
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Wooden Posts and an Ontology of “Treeness” (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wooden posts have been a critical element of Andean architecture within the Jequetepeque valley on the north coast of Peru, particularly in the Moche site of Huaca Colorada (AD 650–850). However, wooden posts have frequently been interpreted in the...