A classification of Middle Formative (1200 – 800 BCE) ceramics from Chavin de Huantar

Summary

Recent research has expanded drastically the sample size available for performing ceramic analyses at Chavin de Huantar during the last decade. Initial efforts have showed that the ceramic complexity previously described during the end of the last century has fallen short and that it is necessary to rethink Chavin ceramics in terms of the new data available. In of In this regard this paper attempts to organize and classify the corpus of ceramics dated from the Middle Formative (1200 – 800 BCE) that came from culturally stratified deposits from the Wacheqsa sector, located immediately at the north of the monumental core. In this sector two spatial units from the Middle Formative were recorded, one yielded evidence from an early domestic occupation, while the other provided evidence for an early canalization of the Wacheqsa River. A methodological insight is provided as well as the initial results of this classification and their implications in the study or relative chronology for this period in the Central Andes.

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Keywords

Spatial Coverage