The Middle Horizon in the Chincha Valley: Preliminary Insights from Las Huacas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Occupations of the Chincha Valley are well-known during the Formative Period (1800 BC – AD 200) when the valley was home to the Paracas people, and the late Prehispanic periods (AD 1200-1532) when it was home to the Chincha Kingdom, but research is just beginning to address the thousand years between these two cultural groups. In this paper, I will present new data from the site of Las Huacas, which is located in the agricultural fields of the Chincha Valley. New radiocarbon dates from excavations demonstrate that the site was occupied as far back as the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000), and analyses of artifacts offer preliminary information on Middle Horizon ceramic traditions in the region. The presentation also offers insights into the development of the Chincha polity and the role that intensive agricultural production played.

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• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52561