Muyumoqo: Preliminary Results from a Late Formative (400 BCE–200 CE) site in the Chitapampa Basin, Cusco, Peru

Summary

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

This paper presents preliminary results from excavations at the Formative (2200 BCE–200 CE) site of Muyumoqo in the Chitapampa Basin, Cusco, Peru. A systematic survey of the Cusco Basin and surrounding regions raised several questions about Muyumoqo’s role in the local economy and its relation to polities forming during the Late Formative. Results from the survey suggested that Muyumoqo may have been a domestic sector occupied by local elites with a ritual site located across from the site at Raqchi. The Chitapampa area saw a large shift in settlement during the Early Intermediate (200–600 CE) with Muyumoqo and other large sites being abandoned. It was suggested this resettlement was in response to the growth of a non-state polity in the Cusco Basin. Data from excavations of households and surface collection of the site are presented. An initial analysis of pottery from these households detected the presence of potential EIP styles necessitating a reevaluation of Muyumoqo’s relationship with its neighbors in the Cusco Basin.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37113.0