CONSUMPTION CONSUMES: CIRCULATION, EXCHANGE, AND VALUE OF SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA BLACK POLISHED CERAMICS

Exchange goods contribute to social complexity and identity construction, but our knowledge of past practices associated with the circulation and consumption of such goods is limited. We explore the polished black ceramics of the San Pedro de Atacama oasis in northern Chile, which were widely traded during the first seven centuries A.D. In particular, we consider the relationships established between the agricultural and pastoral communities of the highland oases and the marine hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Pacific coast in order to examine the circulation and consumption of exotics as prestige goods.

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Emblems, Leadership, Social Interaction and Early Social Complexity: The Ancient Formative Period (1500 bc–ad 100) in the Desert of Northern Chile

Cambridge Archaeological Journal ◽

10.1017/s0959774315000013 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 615-634 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Francisco Gallardo ◽

Gloria Cabello

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Social Complexity ◽

Formative Period ◽

Craft Specialization ◽

Northern Chile ◽

Long Distance ◽

Prestige Goods ◽

Social Distinction ◽

First Millennium ◽

Political Form

Social complexity is synonymous with inequality, a political form whose origin is associated with a reduction in residential mobility, the intensification of production, craft specialization, long-distance exchange, public architecture, the proliferation of prestige goods and ceremonial feasts. Archaeological evidence of these processes, however, is insufficient without the identification of practices related to prehistoric leadership. In the early Andean area, this social distinction was deposited in emblems or insignias of authority, objects of visual prestige whose value resided in myths and divinities. Similar arrangements of material culture, around the first millennium before Christ, appear contextually related with the first village-based communities in Northern Chile.

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The Cochise Culture Olivella

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/276396 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 163-163

Author(s):

D. S. ◽

E. W. Gifford

Keyword(s):

Gulf Of California ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Marine Species ◽

The West ◽

Marine Mollusk ◽

San Pedro River ◽

San Pedro ◽

The Pacific ◽

Shell Fragment ◽

Sulphur Spring

The only marine mollusk listed for 22 samples from beds on Whitewater Creek and San Pedro River is a fragment of Olivella identified as Olivella pedroana Conrad: “A marine species of the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast from California southward. Only one fragment found. It is possible that this might have been used as an ornament.“ This specimen is from the lowest or Sulphur Spring stage of the Cochise culture, which has yielded certain extinct mammals.“The problem of the route of spread [of the Cochise people] is raised by the occurrence with the Sulphur Spring artifacts at Double Adobe (bed b, Fig. 12) of a shell fragment of the marine gastropod Olivella pedroana Conrad, which postulates that the Chochise people had contact with the west coast.“

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Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1116724109 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 109 (37) ◽

pp. 14754-14760 ◽

Cited By ~ 69

Author(s):

P. A. Marquet ◽

C. M. Santoro ◽

C. Latorre ◽

V. G. Standen ◽

S. R. Abades ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Complexity ◽

Atacama Desert ◽

Northern Chile ◽

Hunter Gatherers

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Range extension of the least gecko, Sphaerodactylus glaucus Cope, 1865 (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) in Oaxaca, Mexico

Check List ◽

10.15560/10.1.205 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 205

Author(s):

Jesús García-Grajáles ◽

Alejandra Buenrostro-Silva ◽

Vicente Mata-Silva

Keyword(s):

Pacific Coast ◽

Range Extension ◽

San Pedro ◽

The Pacific

An adult Collared Dwarf Gecko, Sphaerodactylus glaucus, was found in Parque Nacional Lagunas de Chacahua, Cerro Hermoso, municipality of San Pedro Tututepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, at an elevation of 72 m. This specimen represents a new municipality record and the westernmost distribution of the species on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

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The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽

10.1017/s0030812900130597 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 1373-1374

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Stanford University ◽

The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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