Ceramics Crossing Temporal and Cultural Boundaries in the Moquegua Valley

Author(s): Emilee Witte; Emily Schach; Donna Nash

Year: 2023

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ceramic vessels have been produced and in use for thousands of years. Ceramicists are tasked with the duty of creating unique wares and transmitting production knowledge through formal or informal apprentice relationships. In this poster, we compare the vessel forms and functions from the Middle Horizon sites of Cerro Mejia and Cerro Baul to the Late Intermediate Period cemetery site Yaracachi. This poster will examine the transmission of morphological and functional characteristics showing local trends transmitted across cultural and temporal boundaries within the Moquegua Valley. While direct transmission of craft production knowledge is possible, I argue that ceramicists within the valley utilized emulation and experimentation to produce the desired long-established Moquegua styles.

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Ceramics Crossing Temporal and Cultural Boundaries in the Moquegua Valley. Emilee Witte, Emily Schach, Donna Nash. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474651)

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Keywords

General
Andes: Late Intermediate • Ceramic Analysis • Communities of Practice • Craft Production

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): 36608.0