Ychsma Cultural Identity in Armatambo during Inca's Occupation, Peruvian Central Coast

Author(s): Luisa Esther Diaz Arriola

Year: 2018

Summary

This paper presents the results of a typology and iconographic analysis made on ceramic and textiles artifacts recovered at the Ychsma settlement of Armatambo. The Ychsma cultural affiliation of this archaeological site, which is located on a dense urban area south of Lima, is recognized in the literature (especially with the aerial photographs published by Kosok in 1965) but little detail has been published on the evidence of its affiliation and character of occupation. We can confirm that Armatambo was densely occupied during the Late Horizon (1450-1532 AD) on the Peruvian Central Coast and was the local Ychsma harbour to gain access to the ritual site of Pachacamac, the Ychsma capital. We propose that archaeological evidence that we have recorded resulted from the political interaction between Incas and local Ychsma population, which reflect a scenario of tolerance toward the local elites and the cultural expressions in the lower valley of the fertile Rimac drainage.

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Ychsma Cultural Identity in Armatambo during Inca's Occupation, Peruvian Central Coast. Luisa Esther Diaz Arriola. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443765)

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min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;

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Abstract Id(s): 20312