Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ari Caramanica.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The definition of “place” in early colonial north coastal Peru, was based, in part, on Iberian concepts of what constituted ‘good’ land. Ethnohistoric analysis of archival evidence from the period reveals a friction between two distinct worldviews around land, water, ownership, labor, and likely, place. To arrive at a better...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yumi Park Huntington.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper offers new research and theories on relationships between architecture, landscape, and cosmology in the ancient Andes. Previous research has shown how the so-called Acropolis at Jatanca in the Jequetepeque Valley was built to form an almanac viewed along a nearby mountain, Cerro Cañoncillo, with sunrises at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Welch.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Perils of the Soul, Manuel Arias Sohóm described the nature of nonhuman entities to anthropologist Calixta Guiteras-Holmes (1961). Daily life and the real-world transpire through the interactions of both human and nonhuman persons – animals, springs, thread, instruments, and houses – which all live and possess souls....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Villar Quintana.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los lugares comunican mensajes que pueden interpretarse de diversas maneras según el momento y el ocupante. En este contexto, analizamos Shoymal, un sitio arqueológico en la cuenca media del río Utcubamba (Amazonas-Perú). Su arquitectura, de sillares tallados con representaciones en alto relieve, estuvo en uso...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thiago Kater.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Madeira River Basin, southwestern Amazonia, provides a unique lens to examine how places, particularly waterfalls, function as historical agents in the emplacement and transformation of human dynamics. This study utilizes the concept of "emplacement" to investigate the role of the Teotônio waterfall in shaping human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayley Woodward.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across Postclassic Central Mexico and beyond, sculptors etched Aztec-style imagery and writing into the faces of living rock. Such images, ranging from scenes of deity veneration and cosmogonic genesis to symbolic representations of conquest, spark inquiry into the hegemonic nature of the Aztec Empire. Etching, literally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Saracino.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan depicts the Basin of Mexico circa 1540, just decades after the Spanish invasion. Created by Nahua mapmakers, it presents the only early colonial representation of the city and its surrounding basin from a Nahua perspective amidst a moment of dramatic cultural and environmental upheaval....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyce De Carteret.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines communal labor as a principal means by which people make and experience their place in the world. Emplacement is an active and ever-evolving phenomena that emerges from the things people do together. For Maya communities past and present, building a house is a paradigmatic example of communal,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Popovici.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In situ monuments are normally understood as static and fixed; yet, they are constantly interacting with an atmosphere in flux. Rain, fog, and clouds quickly morph and change at different elevations, amplifying or hindering the aesthetic experience of stone sculpture. This paper explores how localized weather phenomena...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordi Benites Segura.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El montículo, como un tipo de sitio que implica la formación de elevaciones, representa una categoría ampliamente utilizada en el estudio arqueológico andino-amazónico. Sin embargo, aunque es una herramienta valiosa, en la práctica tiende a unificar importantes variaciones formales de carácter artificial o semiartificial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This presentation explores "pan-Andean" practices of place-making and time-keeping during the 1^st millennium B.C. across distant corners of the Chavin world, including Ancash, Pasco, and Ica (Peru). Relational analysis of the webs of beings in Chavin ritual arts can reveal commonalities and disjunctures in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Earley.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Images of Classic Maya kings have long been understood as potentially animate world centers that structured movement and identity for humans in ancient Maya centers. Sculptures depicting nonroyal individuals, however, offered different modes of interaction for humans and other-than-humans who moved in and through such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Young.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Contact period documents indicate that many highland Andean groups claimed descent from other-than-human entities within the landscape. From mighty mountain lords (apu) to high-altitude lagoons (cocha), Andean peoples’ origins, and their identities as broadly constructed, have been understood as tied to ancestral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Mayta Campos.

This is an abstract from the "Emplacement and Relational Approaches to the Ancient Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Durante el Periodo Formativo Temprano (1800 – 1200 a.C.) en el valle de Casma, surgió un complejo sistema de asentamientos con arquitectura monumental de diversas escalas y magnitudes, las cuales se ubicaron tanto en el litoral como en el valle. Uno de estos sitios es Pampa de las Llamas – Moxeke, cuyos dos principales...