Before the Cults of the Condor and Catequil: The Pre-Recuay Occupation at Pashash, Ancash, Peru (ca. 500 BCE–100 CE)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent field investigations at the hilltop site of Pashash clarify key diachronic changes during the rise of segmentary lordships in the Pallasca highlands of northern Ancash, Peru. Ceramic, radiocarbon, architectural, and ancillary contextual evidence help to reveal local cultural patterns tracking the Pashash settlement from a small, unassuming agropastoral community during the Early Horizon to a seat of regional and cultic power for Recuay groups by about AD 100. “Formative” period wares disappeared, and new polychrome styles appeared with a dramatic uptake of fancy prestige objects. Interestingly, great intensification of camelid use predated political consolidation, while new forms of monumental architecture and Recuay’s distinctive imagery on pottery and stone sculpture appear to have emerged sui generis as part of an innovative ideology of authority.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37858.0