A View from the Virú: Place and Sight in the Virú Valley Project Reconsidered
Author(s): Brendon Murray; Terence D'Altroy
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Archaeological investigation on the north coast of Peru to this day draws from the 1946 Virú Valley Project; however, recent investigations have reevaluated chronologies and settlement hierarchies previously based on these data. Continuing these investigations, this paper revisits the valley to reconsider the idea of place and sight in the Virú landscape. Using GIS technology and archival records, this paper re-evaluates the sites excavated by Duncan Strong and the Columbia University Expedition with modern eyes, employing concepts such as allocentrism, fuzzy view sheds, and network theory. This paper analyses the sightlines and relationships between a number of major sites and the mountains around them
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A View from the Virú: Place and Sight in the Virú Valley Project Reconsidered. Brendon Murray, Terence D'Altroy. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467766)
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Keywords
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): 33465