A Preliminary Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools at Patipampa

Summary

The 2017 fieldwork at Huari, arguably the largest pre-contact city in South America, yielded in excess of 1800 lithic artifacts – excluding microliths found via soil floatation. These artifacts include whole bifaces, unifaces, tool fragments, and debitage. This analysis focuses on the morphologically distinct tool types excavated, such as bifacial points with lanceolate bodies, fluted points, and drills. These tool types offer insight into daily life at Patipampa and the city of Huari, potentially indicative of areas of manufacture. In one season, the frequency of flaked stone implements exceeds that found in excavating Conchopata, another Wari city in the Ayacucho Basin. Statistical and spatial analyses are used in visualizing potential significances of specific tool types.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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Abstract Id(s): 21754