Religious and Political Resilience in the Ancient Moche World: Monumentality, Micro-chronology, and Environment in Úcupe, Lambayeque, Peru (200-900 CE). The Úcupe Cultural Landscape Archaeological Project. First Results of the 2022 Field Season

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster will present the results of the first excavation campaign of our project (UCLAP) at the Úcupe Archaeological Complex, Zaña Valley, northern Peru. Composed of a dozen of huaca-mounds, Úcupe is an Early Moche (200-400 CE) site that extends over a plateau of 10 ha, located on the southern bank of the Zaña Valley. The site became particularly well-known for the finding of spectacular Moche elite burials (e.g., the Lord of Úcupe); however, very little is still known about the development and historical trajectory of its monumental landscape. The goal of our project is to examine co-relationships between the progressive development of the site’s monumental constructions and situations of environmental stress and climatic vulnerability that hit the site during Moche times. The 2022 field season of the project was focused on documenting the archaeological complex with diverse remote sensing techniques, and excavating the foundations of the most prominent buildings: Huaca El Pueblo and Huaca E2-E3. Preliminary results of our mapping and excavation work and spatial and artefactual analyses of collections recovered are presented and discussed in this poster.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39050.0