Ceremonial Center and Domestic Rituals: The Case of Campanayuq Rumi, South-Central Highlands of Peru

Summary

The main theme of this paper is to reconsider the relationship between the ritual activities in public architecture and domestic rituals carried out in the area outside of ceremonial core through the recent data of Campanayuq Rumi, a late Initial Period and Early Horizon ceremonial center in the Peruvian south-central highlands.

New data from the domestic areas of Campanayuq Rumi suggest that ritual activities had been carried out before the construction of public architecture. While the domestic rituals were maintained, they seems to have been separated from those of the public architecture during the late Initial Period (the Campanayuq I Phase: 1000-700 cal. B.C.). However, in the Early Horizon (the Campanayuq II Phase: 700-500 cal. B.C.), they got more integrated into those of the public architecture. This change occurred in accordance with the adoption of hierarchical social organizations at the site, and thus possibly related to the strategies of emerging elite class.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Social Complexity in the Central Andean Region: Current Research on the Initial Period and Early Horizon - Part 1

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