Preliminary Understandings of the Casma’s Response to Chimú Conquest in the Nepeña Valley, Peru: Findings from the 2017 Pan de Azucár Excavations.

Summary

Around A.D. 1300, the Chimú conducted a series of expansions south of the Moche Valley conquering the Casma, a regional group whose territory spanned from the Chao to the Huarmey Valleys. While past research has examined this event in the northern and southern extent of the Casma’s territory, there exists a void in our knowledge on the Casma’s experience during the Chimú conquest in the central Santa and Nepeña Valleys. In 2017 the Proyecto Investigación de Arqueología de Pan de Azucár (PIAPAN) conducted the first season of excavations at the principle Casma site of Pan de Azucár. The project’s goals are to understand the Casma’s response during the Chimú conquest in whether they conformed, resisted, or hybridized their daily practices through taking a multi-component analysis of cultural and biological data. Based on findings from the first season of excavations at Pan de Azucár, this paper discusses the data discovered and presents preliminary hypotheses on how the Casma reacted to Chimú conquest in the Nepeña Valley.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 19878