Chavín de Huántar and the Chronology of the Andean Formative Period in Lima

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Chavín de Huántar’s Contribution to Understanding the Central Andean Formative: Results and Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper evaluates 113 radiocarbon dates of 11 Formative sites located in Lima and assesses them considering the existing Chavín chronological framework. All dates were modeled using Bayesian statistics through Oxcal to reassess the chronological range of the Formative period in Lima, while special attention is put on the site of Ancon and the U-shaped building tradition. I conclude that this tradition was popular between 1500 and 1000 BC (calibrated) and entered a decline process between 1000 and 500 BC (calibrated), which coincided with janabarroid ceramic spread in the central Andes. While the U-shaped building tradition was in decline, sites such as Ancon and Curayacu experience an intense flourishment, represented in the abundance of local and janabarroid ceramics in their archaeological stratigraphies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Chavín de Huántar’s Contribution to Understanding the Central Andean Formative: Results and Perspectives   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38392.0