Scraping the Pots: Residue Analysis of Salinar Ceramic Vessels Found in Domestic Contexts at Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru
Author(s): Gianina Comeca Ramirez; Gabriel Prieto Burmester; Pilar Babot
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Peering into the Night: Transition, Sociopolitical Organization, and Economic Dynamics after the Dusk of Chavín in the North Central Andes" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In this paper, we present preliminary results of organic residues analysis taken from ceramic vessels found in domestic contexts at the site of Pampa la Cruz, north coast of Peru. This study emphasizes the importance of plant consumption among early fishermen populations against traditional assumptions that cultivated crops were of minor significant to these communities. More important, it opens the possibility of exploring the social and economic relationships between fishing and farming communities and even distant trade during the late early Horizon (cal BP) or after the Chavín sphere of interaction collapse. Our results show that the use of ceramic vessels was linked to the consumption of several fruits, tubers, and even *Theobroma spp. "cacao," which to date is the earliest evidence of this species in the entire south Pacific coast. The identification of damage due to processing modes (grounding, boiling, roasting, and fermenting) in the starches of these taxa indicates that the stages reported by ethnographic literature for the making of sophisticated fermented beverages like chicha were carried out at the site. This shows the importance of activities associated with the production and consumption of fermented beverages among ancient fishing communities.
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Scraping the Pots: Residue Analysis of Salinar Ceramic Vessels Found in Domestic Contexts at Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru. Gianina Comeca Ramirez, Gabriel Prieto Burmester, Pilar Babot. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466708)
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Keywords
General
Andes: Formative
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Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: Residue Analysis
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Household Archaeology
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Paleoethnobotany, fishing communities.
Geographic Keywords
South America: Andes
Spatial Coverage
min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32038