The Timespace of the Pre-Hispanic City of Cerro de Oro

Summary

This work uses the concept of timespace (Schatzki 2010) to follow the construction and habitation of the prehispanic city of Cerro de Oro within the lower Cañete valley between ca. 500-900 AD. The concept of timespace assumes that the temporality and spatiality of the social are considered as intertwined elements that form the dynamic infrastructure where social phenomena such as power, social organization or coordinated action are constituted. These timespaces are embedded within a "deep time" approach that follows the entangled formation of a city through time and space, allowing to integrate the multiple dimensions and facets that characterize social processes. Moreover, this study proposes to re evaluate the concept of time, criticizing its use as an independent variable which is reduced, molded or extended to fit within "concise" or "logical" narratives of past events, in favor of a view that holds time as embedded within daily practices.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 20635