Daily Life Outside the Monument: Recent Excavations at the La Banda Sector, Chavín de Huántar

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.

Chavín de Huántar is a very important Formative period site located in the Conchucos region of north-central Peru. It has unique monumental architecture, which includes a series of buildings with complex galleries and canals, as well as finely crafted stone sculptures. Although substantial research has been conducted on Chavín iconography and architecture, much less is known about the people who lived and worked outside of the monumental core. In this talk we will discuss our recent excavations at the La Banda sector in 2022 and 2023, located across the river from the monumental core, to interpret the material evidence left by the people living here. This sector appears to have been heavily occupied as evidenced by the amount of rooms and the occupation sequence. There is evidence of ritual activity: parts of animals and worked tools were deposited under some constructions. Formal canals, similar to some of those found in the monumental core, were also excavated in La Banda. The results of some of the analyses, including bone artifacts and radiocarbon dates, will be presented and discussed during this talk to better understand the daily lives of the people who supported the activities at the Chavín temples.

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): 38543.0