Local Effects of Imperial Craft Production in Highland and Coastal Peru

Author(s): R. Alan Covey; Amanda Aland

Year: 2015

Summary

During the Late Intermediate Period (LIP, c. AD 1000-1400), longstanding traditions of specialized craft work and distribution of wealth goods on the north coast of Peru culminated under the rule of the Chimú Empire. In contrast, the same period in the highlands shows little evidence of specialization or large-scale access to wealth goods during the advent of the Inca Empire. This paper will compare the evidence for craft production and wealth consumption at sites located in valleys near the Chimú and Inca capitals. Using excavation data from Pukara Pantillijlla in the Cuzco region and Santa Rita B in the Chao Valley on the north coast of Peru, we examine craft production and consumption changes at the local level prior to imperial incorporation and how it changed under the rule of imperial states.

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Local Effects of Imperial Craft Production in Highland and Coastal Peru. Amanda Aland, R. Alan Covey. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395574)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
South America

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;