Ethnogenesis and Social Difference in the Andean Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100–1450): A Bioarchaeological Study of Cranial Modification in the Colca Valley, Peru

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Social Difference ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Colca Valley ◽  
Cranial Modification

The Politics of Community and Inka Statecraft in the Colca Valley, Peru

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Wernke
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Late Horizon ◽  
Colca Valley ◽  
Archaeological Analysis

AbstractIn this paper I investigate the community-level articulation of imperial and local political structures during the Inka occupation of the Collagua Province, located in the Colca Valley of highland southern Peru. Combined ethnohistorical and archaeological analysis document the emergence of a hybrid imperial/local political formation in the shift from autonomous rule during the Late Intermediate period (A.D. 1000–1450) to the Inka occupation during the Late horizon (A.D. 1450–1532). Documentary evidence reveals considerable but uneven penetration of Inka imperial institutions across the two ranked moieties that structure local community organization, with remarkably close conformity between Inkaic ideals of rank and hierarchy among the communities (ayllus) of the lower moiety, but greater autonomy among the higher-ranking ayllus of the upper moiety. New data from a systematic survey around the provincial capital documents a decentralized Late Intermediate period settlement pattern associated with fortifications, suggesting segmentary autonomous political organization. The subsequent Late horizon settlement pattern signals overall occupational continuity, but with the establishment of an Inka administrative center and the installation of central plazas and Inka structures at large settlements with local elite domestic architecture. The two data sets combined provide a integrated view of centralized, but locally mediated, Inka administration.

Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru

2020 ◽  
pp. 351-365
Author(s):  
Joyce Marcus ◽  
Kent V. Flannery ◽  
Jeffrey Sommer ◽  
Robert G. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
El Niño Event ◽  
Peruvian Coast ◽  
Maritime Adaptations ◽  
El Niño Events ◽  
El Nino Events

Chapter 13 discusses Late Intermediate Period (~1000–1400 cal AD) and 20th-century fishing at Cerro Azul, a large site in the Cañete Valley on the Peruvian coast south of Lima. The authors provide data on the effects of the 1982–83 El Niño event on the local fisheries and use these data to examine the Cerro Azul zooarchaeological assemblage for evidence of El Niño events; they did not find signs of El Niño although events occurred while the site was inhabited.

Ancient pre-Columbian Peru, Bolivia and Mesoamerica

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Ortloff
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Middle Horizon ◽  
Canal Irrigation ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Horizon ◽  
The Many

Irrigation agriculture is a transformational technology used to secure high food yields from undeveloped lands. Specific to ancient South America, the Chimú Empire occupied the north coast of Peru from the Chillon to the Lambeyeque Valleys (Figure 1.1.1) from800 to 1450 CE (Late Intermediate Period (LIP)) and carried canal reclamation far beyond modern limits by applying hydraulics concepts unknown to Western science until the beginning of the 20th century. The narrative that follows examines hydraulic engineering and water management developments and strategies during the many centuries of agricultural development in the Chimú heartland of the Moche River Basin. The story examines how Chimú engineers and planners managed to greatly expand the agricultural output of valleys under their control by employing advanced canal irrigation technologies and the economic and political circumstances under which large-scale reclamation projects took place. The following time period conventions are used in the discussion that follow: Preceramic and Formative Period (3000–1800 BCE) Initial Period (IP) 1800–900 BCE Early Horizon (EH) 900–200 BCE Early Intermediate Period (EIP) 200 BCE–600 CE Middle Horizon (MH) 600–1000 CE Late Intermediate Period (LIP) 1000–1476 CE Late Horizon (LH) 1476–1534 CE. Chimú political power and state development was concentrated in Peruvian north coast valleys. Each valley contained an intermittent river supplied by seasonal rainfall runoff/glacial melt water from the adjacent eastern highlands. Over millennia, silts carried by the rivers from highland sources formed gently sloping alluvial valleys with fertile desert soils suitable for agriculture. An arid environment tied the Chimú economy to intravalley irrigation networks supplied from these rivers; these systems were supplemented by massive intervalley canals of great length that transported water between river valleys, thus opening vast stretches of intervalley lands to farming. The Chimú accomplishments and achievements in desert environment agricultural technologies brought canal-based water management and irrigation technology to its zenith among ancient South American civilizations, with practically all coastal cultivatable intervalley and intravalley lands reachable by canals brought under cultivation.

Mortuary Practices and Human Sacrifice in the Middle Chao Valley of Peru: Their Interpretation in the Context of Andean Mortuary Patterning

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Gaither ◽  
Jonathan Kent ◽  
Víctor Vásquez Sánchez ◽  
Teresa Rosales Tham
Keyword(s):  
Mortuary Practices ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Human Sacrifice ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Temporal Continuity

Investigations at several northern Peruvian coastal archaeological sites by archaeologists and physical anthropologists are beginning to provide details on long-term patterning of mortuary behavior. Some of these patterns include retainer sacrifice, child sacrifice, and the metaphorical principle we refer to as “like with like.” In this paper, we discuss the data relating to these mortuary patterns discovered at the site of Santa Rita B in the middle Chao Valley. Examples of each of the patterns presented are evident at the site. These include at least three child sacrifices and one adult sacrifice. The sacrifices appear to be retainer sacrifices, defined as sacrifices intended to accompany a deceased principal personage in the afterlife. The inclusion of the child sacrifices with a subadult principal burial is part of the “like with like” pattern seen here and at other Andean sites. Dating to the start of the Late Intermediate period (ca. A.D. 1100–1300), these finds are compared to other north coastal sites, both earlier and later, and the extent of temporal continuity in these patterns is discussed.

Dietary diversity in the Atacama desert during the Late intermediate period of northern Chile

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty ◽  
Eugenia M. Gayo ◽  
Vivien Standen ◽  
Victoria Castro ◽  
Claudio Latorre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Atacama Desert ◽  
Northern Chile ◽  
Late Intermediate Period ◽  
Intermediate Period
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document