Morro de Eten and the Social Interactions of the Middle and Late Formative Period in Northern Peru

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Morro de Eten is located on the coast of the Lambayeque valley, and due to the characteristics of its cultural material, it has long been involved in the Cupisnique–Chavín dichotomy. In this presentation, it is not discussed whether Morro de Eten corresponds to a Cupisnique or Chavín settlement. Instead, from the identification of the shared cultural attributes of the pottery, the paper explores the modes, scales, and frequencies of interaction to establish a similarity index. On the basis of this index, it is stated that since there is no homogeneity in the distribution of the set of features identified in Morro de Eten, the data reflect the agency and intensity of complex mechanisms of social interaction that developed in local, regional, and interregional scales between 900 and 550 BC.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38712.0