What's a Niche Got to Do with It? Spatial Analysis of Niched Structures at Patipampa and Other Middle Horizon Sites

Summary

Excavations at the Middle Horizon (AD 500-100) capital city of Huari in the summer of 2017 focused on understanding processes of urbanization and the resulting realities of everyday life in the domestic sector of Patipampa. Several of the architectural spaces exposed during excavation were more intensively investigated. This paper focuses on the architectural space containing niched walls in order to understand how the Wari utilized this type of space in comparison to the uses of the other rooms excavated in this residential sector. I will discuss the diversity of materials recovered from the unit as well as compare the ceramic cache located in this unit with one encountered in a different compound. Additionally, I will use the preliminary findings to explore the similarities and difference this space shares with niched structures reported from other Middle Horizon Wari sites.

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): 21902