Ritual consumption and sacrifice of llama (<i>Lama grama</i>) at the Pacopampa site in the Northern Highlands, Peru

AbstractThe Cave of Hun Nal Ye, located in central Guatemala, was discovered unlooted by a local landowner in 2005 and was immediately subject to investigation by the authors. The cave contained ritual remains dating to between the Terminal Pre-classic and Terminal Classic. In addition to allowing a detailed reconstruction of ritual activity in the northern highlands, its presence along the Great Western Trade Route allows archaeologists to examine hypotheses about interregional trade during the Classic period. In particular, changes in the ritual assemblage between the Early and Late Classic indicate that the cave was an important trade shrine for merchants and travelers passing between the highlands and lowlands until ca. A.D. 550, at which point it became a local shrine used to reinforce elite power. These changes are then linked to larger patterns occurring in other parts of the trade route, especially to Tikal and the kingdoms along the Pasión and Usumacinta rivers.

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Terranes

Geological Society London Memoirs ◽

10.1144/gsl.mem.1992.013.01.03 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

B. J. Bluck ◽

W. Gibbons ◽

J. K. Ingham

Keyword(s):

Hanging Wall ◽

Fault System ◽

Upper Proterozoic ◽

Lower Proterozoic ◽

Central Highland ◽

Thrust Zone ◽

Lower Palaeozoic ◽

Moine Thrust Zone ◽

Shallow Marine Sediments ◽

Northern Highlands

AbstractThe Precambrian and Lower Palaeozoic foundations of the British Isles may be viewed as a series of suspect terranes whose exposed boundaries are prominent fault systems of various kinds, each with an unproven amount of displacement. There are indications that they accreted to their present configuration between late Precambrian and Carboniferous times. From north to south they are as follows.In northwest Scotland the Hebridean terrane (Laurentian craton in the foreland of the Caledonian Orogen) comprises an Archaean and Lower Proterozoic gneissose basement (Lewisian) overlain by an undeformed cover of Upper Proterozoic red beds and Cambrian to early mid Ordovician shallow marine sediments. The terrane is cut by the Outer Isles Thrust, a rejuvenated Proterozoic structure, and is bounded to the southeast by the Moine Thrust zone, within the hanging wall of which lies a Proterozoic metamorphic complex (Moine Supergroup) which constitutes the Northern Highlands terrane. The Moine Thrust zone represents an essentially orthogonal closure of perhaps 100 km which took place during Ordovician-Silurian times (Elliott & Johnson 1980). The Northern Highlands terrane records both Precambrian and late Ordovician to Silurian tectonometamorphic events (Dewey & Pankhurst 1970) and linkage with the Hebridean terrane is provided by slices of reworked Lewisian basement within the Moine Supergroup (Watson 1983).To the southwest of the Great Glen-Walls Boundary Fault system lies the Central Highlands (Grampian) terrane, an area dominated by the late Proterozoic Dalradian Supergroup which is underlain by a gneissic complex (Central Highland Granulites) that has been variously interpreted as either older

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Regional geochemistry of the Northern Highlands of Scotland

Geological Society London Special Publications ◽

10.1144/gsl.sp.1979.008.01.10 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 117-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

G. S. Johnstone ◽

Jane Plant ◽

Janet V. Watson

Keyword(s):

Northern Highlands

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Spatial variability of selected soil properties in relation to land use and slope position in Gelana sub-watershed, Northern highlands of Ethiopia

Physical Geography ◽

10.1080/02723646.2017.1380972 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 230-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Birhan Asmame Miheretu ◽

Assefa Abegaz Yimer

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Spatial Variability ◽

Soil Properties ◽

Slope Position ◽

Northern Highlands

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Obsidian in Southern Ecuador: The Carboncillo Source

Latin American Antiquity ◽

10.7183/1045-6635.22.1.97 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 97-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dennis E. Ogburn

Keyword(s):

Economic Organization ◽

Geochemical Analysis ◽

Long Distance ◽

X Ray ◽

Far North ◽

The North ◽

The Andes ◽

Southern Ecuador ◽

High Level ◽

Northern Highlands

AbstractThe Carboncillo area in the southern highlands of Ecuador is identified as the only confirmed source of archaeological obsidian located in the country outside of the northern highlands and is the first identified in the large gap between the known Ecuadorian and Peruvian sources. With the identification of this source, it can no longer be assumed that all obsidian found in Ecuador came from sources in the northern highlands. Thus the Carboncillo source has significant implications for interpreting patterns of long-distance exchange in the Andes, especially in southern Ecuador and the far north of Peru. A geochemical analysis of the Carboncillo material shows that it can be easily distinguished from the obsidian from other Ecuadorian sources. A provenance study of archaeological obsidian samples from the southern highlands of Ecuador using x-ray fluorescence demonstrates that the Carboncillo obsidian was used at the Preceramic site of Chobshi Cave and at a number of late prehispanic sites in the Saraguro region. The results indicate a high level of sociopolitical and economic isolation in late prehistory, most likely tied to a preoccupation with warfare between neighboring groups, and provide additional evidence that the economic organization of the southern highlands differed markedly from that of the north during this time.

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