New Starch Grain Results and a Synthetic Approach to Foodways at Quilcapampa La Antigua

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.

The mundane and commensal foodways of Wari and Wari-influenced peoples is a burgeoning area of interest that has the potential to illuminate various aspects of Wari identity. The Middle Horizon period was a particularly turbulent time in terms of identity politics. The establishment of Wari satellite colonies created new locations of culture contact and active negotiation between colonizer and indigenous, resulting in a multitude of interactions throughout the Empire. This paper reports on the identification of starch grains collected from manos and ceramic cooking/serving wares from Quilcapampa (AD 600-850), a Wari-affiliated Middle Horizon period (AD 600-1000) village located in the hyper-arid environment of the Siguas Valley, Arequipa, Peru. In addition to presenting new starch grain results from artifact residues, we integrate microbotanical and macrobotanical results, a type of synthetic approach that is unprecedented for the region and time period. Collectively, microbotanical and macrobotanical identifications shed new light on food processing practices and spatial organization of activities in this Wari-affiliated village.

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): 25185