Post-Chavín Political Developments in Ancash: Comparative Perspectives from the Nepeña and Pallasca Regions

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 our 2019 excavations at the centers of Cerro San Isidro (Nepeña) and Pashash (Pallasca) in the Moro and Cabana regions of north-central Peru, respectively. Both are multicomponent hilltop sites that developed into major post-Chavín elite centers and witnessed a series of later occupations. Data on occupational sequences, fortifications, ceremonial architecture, offering contexts, and material culture are presented to shed comparative light on post-Chavín political developments in two neighboring regions that witnessed apparently quite different trajectories following the demise of the Chavín phenomenon. We focus on materialities of post-Chavín developments and their impact on the rise of new forms of political authority, including the strategic reuse, manipulation, and ritual engagement with abandoned places, buildings, and things. The comparison helps frame new understandings of about the proliferation of divine lordships in Ancash and the central Andes more broadly.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Peering into the Night: Transition, Sociopolitical Organization, and Economic Dynamics after the Dusk of Chavín in the North Central Andes

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Abstract Id(s): 32097