*Todas las cremas: Shifting Landscapes of Mobility on the Far Southern Coast of Peru (AD 1000–1920)

Summary

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

Recent field work in Tacna (far southern Peru) by a joint team from Princeton and Washington University in St. Louis has investigated the long-term landscape history of the Sama Valley and its desert margins. Located between the research hotspots of Moquegua and Arica, the Sama Valley has long been overlooked. At the same time, it is well positioned to offer new insights into classic debates about ecology and mobility, ethnicity, and the transforming political economies of the late prehispanic and historic periods. Here we present an initial analysis of recent data on the long-term patterns of connectivity that articulate Sama with wider networks of mobility and exchange. Using a combination of remote sensing and intensive pedestrian survey, the Proyecto Arqueologico del Valle de Sama 2019 field season recorded evidence for multiple routes through the inter-valley desert pampas that border the lower Sama drainage. The results highlight the utility of intensive coverage in apparently marginal inter-valley landscapes and reveal a complex palimpsest of routes and ephemeral sites relating to Cabuza, Gentilar, Inca, and historical periods of use.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
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Abstract Id(s): 32350