Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 2

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 2" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Long-term research in the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex on the North Coast 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.

Other Keywords
Andes: Middle Horizon • Geoarchaeology • Architecture • Survey • Andes: Late Intermediate • Migration • Landscape Archaeology • Warfare • Craft Production • Violence

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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  • Analyzing Highland and Coastal Ceramic Techniques of Production in the Middle Horizon Period (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sally Lynch.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The relationship between coastal and highland cultural groups during the Middle Horizon remains widely debated and still not fully understood. Scholars have argued that “Coastal Cajamarca” plates found in Moche sites on the coast are local imitations...

  • Archaeologies of Flow in the Southern Jequetepeque: The Organization of Infrastructure, Irrigation, and Roads (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Quiñonez. John Warner. Stephen Berquist.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Canoñcillo probablemente derivó su importancia inicial de su posición a lo largo de los principales corredores de tránsito que conectaban la costa y la sierra. Su ubicación en el margen del desierto no se presta fácilmente al asentamiento. El río...

  • From Mountain Worship to Guarding the Sacred Lakes: Surveys of Cerro Canoncillo, Cerro Prieto Espinal, and Cerro Santonte (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Wai. Stefanie Wai. Patricia Quiñonez.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the heart of the community, Cerro Cañoncillo and its lakes formed enduring sacred spaces across the landscape. In this paper, we explore in greater depth how the ceremonial centers of the region interrelated spatially and symbolically with...

  • Molding Bricks and Making Place: Earthen Architecture in the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Schloss.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The built environment of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex in the northern coast of Peru is dominated by earthen architecture constructed and modified within a span of 1,800 years. Although the sites within the Complex—Jatanca (500BCE–100 CE),...

  • Precolumbian Metallurgy at the Late Moche–Transitional site of Huaca Colorada, Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Branden Rizzuto.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2009, the Late Moche–Transitional site of Huaca Coloroda (ca. 700–900 CE), located in the Jequetepeque Valley on the North Coast of Peru, has been a focus for excavations by the Proyecto Arqueológico Jatanca-Huaca Colorada-Tecapa. These...

  • Tecapa: Segmentary Organization as Sociopolitical Technology in the Transitional Period (AD 800–1000 AD) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Berquist. Aleksa Alaica. Giles Morrow.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Tecapa represents one of the few major Transitional settlements on the North Coast. Its occupation (~AD 800–1000 AD) spans the waning of Moche influence and the coalescence of Chimú and Lambayeque culture. In fact, the spatial...

  • Transitions in Past and Present: The Introduction of Huaca Dos Cruces and Huaca Tronco Prieto (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alannagh Maciw. Giles Morrow. Stephen Berquist. Ellen Pacheco.

    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 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition into the Late Intermediate period (LIP) (~1000 CE) held many changes for residents of the Cañoncillo region, but, as of yet, it is unclear why the prominent sites of Huaca Colorada and Tecapa were abandoned in favor of nearby mounds...