Quilcapampa: A Wari Colony on an Interregional Trail on the Coast of Southern Peru

Summary

In the ninth century AD, Wari settlers founded the site of Quilcapampa in the Sihuas Valley of southern Peru. The first definitive Wari settlement in Arequipa, the site was founded astride an inter-valley trade route that had been used for at least a millennium. This paper will discuss both the site's clear link to Wari, as evidenced by its architecture, ceramics, and foodways, as well as the possible links to the Nazca region where Wari control was likely fractured due to conflict and possible drought. Founded some two hundred years after the Wari expanded along the coast of southern Peru during the seventh century AD, Quilcapampa residents arrived at the end of a period of increased interregional interaction, then abandoned the site only a couple of generations later as Sihuas and surrounding valleys were drawn more closely into a regional trade network. More importantly, who were the people of Quilcapampa and what was their relationship with people from Nazca and in the Wari state capital?

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

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Abstract Id(s): 21322