Pavao-Zuckerman Pacasmayo Fauna

Summary

This project consists of zooarchaeological data from the Pacasmayo and Jequetepeque valleys in the Pacasmayo District of Northern Peru. Sites date from the early to mid holocene, or the Preceramic period (c. 11,000-4000 14C BP)

Sites:

Several sites in the Pacasmayo and Jequetepeque valley are included in this data. See Stackelbeck 2008 and Dillehay 2011 for detailed site descriptions. Sites include:

• CA-09-52, CA-09-77, JE-431, JE-439, JE-790, JE-908, JE-983, JE-993, JE-996, JE-1002, JE-1004, JE-1006, JE-1007

Personnel:

• Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman is the data creator and contact for this project. She led the faunal analysis for the Pacasmayo Project.

• Thomas Dillehay was a co-director of the Pacasmayo project. He commissioned the faunal analysis of sites CA-09-52 and CA-09-77.

• Lisa Janz was a PhD student who completed the faunal analysis for Tom Dillehay's sites in 2007. She was supervised by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman.

• Alan Kolata was the other co-director of the Pacasmayo project.

• Kary Stackelbeck was a graduate student who did her PhD dissertation on a portion of the Pacasmayo project. She commissioned the faunal analysis of sites in the Jequetepeque Valley. Fieldwork for these sites took place from 2002-2003, and Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman completed the faunal analysis in 2004.

• Andrew Webster, a graduate assistant at the University of Maryland, created digital versions of the data, compiled resources, and created the tDAR project in 2020.

Data:

Data included on this tDAR project consist of excel files of the zooarchaeological data from Dillehay (CA site numbers) and Stackelbeck (JE site numbers), associated coding sheets, and scans of the original paper data entry cards where the data was originally recorded, when available.

Documents on tDAR:

• Pavao-Zuckerman 2004, "Preceramic Period Vertebrate Use in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru," is the faunal report for sites included in Stackelbeck 2008.