Secularism and Religiousness in Late Formative Ceramics from Chavin de Huántar*

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The pottery from the ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar has been the reason for considerable attention by numerous researchers who have highlighted various qualities related to its manufacturing and iconography. Special attention has been put in ceramics qualified as ceremonial, from closed contexts (Ofrendas Gallery) inside the ceremonial center and from pottery with icons related to supernatural beings (sensu Rowe 1962). At the same time, in the last decades has been identified a ceramic ensemble recently recognized as janabarroide, which within its various attributes presents a series of patterned designs whose Basic units have “S”, “U” and “O” shapes. This type of pottery appears in Chavín de Huántar in contexts outside the monumental nucleus (Campo Oeste, Wacheqsa, la Banda, etc), while ceremonial ceramics with abundant anthropomorphic designs are found overwhelmingly in the nuclear area of the Ceremonial Center. In that sense the this paper argues the existence of an intrinsic and controlled segregation context of the use of ceramics according to the meanings and / or nature of the purposes for which they were

produced, sometimes allowing the occasional coexistence of both sets.

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Abstract Id(s): 31978