An Introduction to the Cultural Sequence of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Intensive archaeological excavations of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex in the Jequetepeque Valley (north coast of Peru) have underlined the enduring importance of this region to a sequence of precolumbian communities over the past 2,500 years. Extensive investigations at the Late Formative period site of Jatanca (500 BCE–100 CE), the Late Moche site of Huaca Colorada (650–950 CE), and the Transitional and Late Intermediate period sites of Tecapa and Huaca Dos Cruces (ca. 800–1100 CE) have clarified the chronological limits of these occupations through a campaign of over 100 radiocarbon dates that project members collected between 2004 and 2023. This paper will outline the history of collaborative research in the region from 1997 to the present while also contextualizing the current state of collective scholarship of each distinct occupation area and phase. The availability of such a comprehensive sequence of dates from secure archaeological contexts offers a uniquely nuanced understanding of this important cultural landscape to a degree seldom undertaken by current scholarship in this region. Ultimately, this presentation highlights the strength of long-term and ongoing collaborative research in a single locale by introducing and contextualizing a series of papers offered by project collaborators on their respective fields of examination.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 38441.0