A Cajamarca Basin Perspective on Northern Highland Interaction during the Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate Periods

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Them and Us: Transmission and Cultural Dynamism in the North of Peru between AD 250 and 950: A Vision since the Recent Northern Investigations" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Investigations at the Cajamarca sites of Callacpuma and Yanaorco are shedding new light on shifting patterns and intensities of interregional interaction. Highland influence on the coast has been recognized for many years in the coastal Jequetepeque region and the valleys to its north. The current work presents intriguing new material evidence for the presence of coastal material culture in sites of the Cajamarca Basin indicating at least some level of contact during both the early Middle Horizon and the Late Intermediate period. This material takes the form of both everyday utilitarian objects and more enigmatic ceramic vessels and figurines. All of this indicates previously unexpected levels of material contact with the north coast and hints at social and political interaction between the two regions.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Them and Us: Transmission and Cultural Dynamism in the North of Peru between AD 250 and 950: A Vision since the Recent Northern Investigations   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 33490