Understanding Quilcapampa

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As the papers in this session have demonstrated, the site of Quilcapampa La Antigua in a previously isolated region of southern Peru is notable for its long-distance connections, strong Wari influence, and brief occupation during the tenth century AD. In this closing paper on our excavations, I want to summarize some of the project's key findings and attempt to answer a deceptively simply question: what was "Wari" in this particular context? Outside of Moquegua, Quilcapampa boasts the strongest evidence for being founded by Wari-affiliated settlers. What, though, was the relationship of these settlers to the Wari state? To the greater Nazca region that they likely came from? To the local population in the Sihuas Valley who likely help build the site? Although definitive answers to these and other questions cannot yet be given, we suggest that the Quilcapampa data point to more dynamic, often fraught, relationships linking settlers, distant homelands, and contacted people--all attempting to navigate life amidst the tumult of a new cultural horizon.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Wari and the Far Peruvian South Coast: Final Results of Excavations in Quilcapampa   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23465