Comparing the Household Activities from Cerro la Guitarra (Zaña Valley, Peru)

Summary

New insights from household archaeology on the north coast of Peru provide lines of evidence about the complex patterns of daily life. Also, few studies about the domestic life were carried out at the Zaña Valley. The first field season at Cerro la Guitarra, a fortified hill site with occupations from the Late Intermediate Period (1100-1400 AD) in the Zaña Valley, was very successful because it allows us to explore residential life using ceramics, architecture, and faunal analysis with the goal of explaining similarities and differences between spaces, constructive patterns, exchange, diet, and, more importantly, social differentiation. Since the comparisons inside the site, we hope to show how Cerro la Guitarra was a highly interactive community where intrinsic differences are important to understand the site as a whole.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 22352