Population Centers of the Rimac Valley of Peru

1954 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis M. Stumer
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
The North ◽  
Atypical Features ◽  
Peruvian Coast ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

This Article is intended less as a descriptive piece on the archaeology of the Rimac Valley than it is as a single-valley application of various conclusions reached by Richard P. Schaedel in his Major Ceremonial and Population Centers in Northern Peru (1951). Schaedel, in a broad synthetic study of major ruins on the North Coast of Peru, comes to several interesting conclusions on the “urban revolution” in that region. The author, who was already engaged in a survey of the Rimac, with the focus on the coastal cultures from sea level to the 1000-meter line, felt impelled to shift the emphasis of his survey from straight description to a Central Coast application of Schaedel's North Coast findings. This was a fairly easy task, as the sites were already being analyzed both architecturally and ceramically.The Rimac, the “valley of Lima,” presents sufficient of both typical and atypical features of a Peruvian coastal valley to make the application of Schaedel's theories to a single valley at least fairly indicative of their validity for the entire Peruvian coast.

Early Watertable Farming on the North Coast of Peru

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael West
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Intermediate Period ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Field Systems ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

An archaeological example of simple watertable farming dating to the beginning of the Early Intermediate period in the Viru Valley, northern Peru, is reported. This technique was deployed by functionally differentiated segments of a single community, one stressing fishing and the other farming. Analyses of pollens indicate that Zea, Leguminosae, and Solonaceae were grown in two separate field systems.

The Ethnogenesis of Pescador Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-264
Author(s):  
Richard C. Sutter ◽  
Gabriel Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Genetic Relationship ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Moche Valley ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Dental Traits ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

Chapter 9 discusses ethnogenesis on the north coast of Peru from the perspective of bioarchaeology at the Initial Period site of Pampa Gramalote (1500–1200 cal B.C./3450–1350 cal BP) in the Moche valley in northern Peru. The authors examine the genetic relationship between fishing and contemporary, nearby populations using dental traits. They conclude that Gramalote contrasts sharply with preceding maritime populations of the Peruvian Preceramic Period and exchanged mates with farming populations in the adjacent valley. Ethnic identity here is not coterminous with genetics but rather a result of shared economic activities.

A Comment on the Breeding and Herding of Llamas and Alpacas on the North Coast of Peru

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 832-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Lange Topic ◽  
Thomas H. McGreevy ◽  
John R. Topic
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
The North ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

In presenting a case for the viability of llamas on the desert coast of northern Peru in prehispanic times, Shimada and Shimada (1985) suggest that alpacas might also have been adapted to the coastal environment. Alpacas are primarily wool producers however, best adapted to the high altitude pasturelands of central and southern Peru. Wool yarn used in coastal textiles, it is argued, was imported from the highlands. While coastal llama herding is an aspect of regional self-sufficiency, alpaca wool yarn was important in the long distance exchange networks which, in later Andean prehistory, distributed rare materials and products for elite consumption.

A Chimu-Inka Ceramic-Manufacturing Center from the North Coast of Peru

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Donnan
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Jequetepeque Valley ◽  
Ceramic Manufacturing ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

A Chimú-Inka ceramic-manufacturing center, dating ca. A.D. 1470-1532, has been located in the Jequetepeque Valley of northern Peru. An analysis of a large sample of molds and over-fired sherds from the site indicates that the potters produced both local and Inka-derived forms—primarily mold-made utility wares. Since Inka aryballoid bottles were produced here, their production, and presumably their use, was more akin to utility wares for commoners than to ceremonial/administrative ware for the elite. Although there were numerous potters involved in the production of large numbers of vessels, the production was not organized with strict division of labor, but rather with each individual potter working on most stages of production.

scholarly journals Changing Sea-Level along the North Coast of Kuwait Bay

1983 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 453
Author(s):  
Alexander Melamid ◽  
Taiba A. Al-Asfour
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Kuwait Bay ◽  
The North

Huaynuná, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pozorski ◽  
Shelia Pozorski
Keyword(s):  
North Coast ◽  
The North ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

BIOLOGICAL DISTANCE PATTERNS AMONG THE NORTHERN MOCHE LORDS: DENTAL PHENOTYPES AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN ANCIENT PERU

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 696-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haagen D. Klaus ◽  
Walter Alva ◽  
Steve Bourget ◽  
Luis Chero
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Biological Distance ◽  
R Matrix ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The North ◽  
Limited Gene Flow ◽  
Dental Traits ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

Between AD 100 and 800, the Moche culture emerged on the north coast of Peru. Diverse debates surround the nature of Moche territorial and political centralization, sociopolitical identities, and the internal social diversity of Moche society. Here we address some of these issues in a biodistance study based on phenotypic variation of inherited dental traits within and between 36 individuals in the royal tombs of Sipán (Lambayeque valley), Úcupe (Zaña valley), and Dos Cabezas (Jequetepeque valley). Metric and nonmetric dental trait data were analyzed using hierarchical cluster and R-matrix analyses. The results independently indicate that the highest-level Sipán and Dos Cabezas lords likely represented different endogamous kin groups, while limited gene flow occurred between groups of Moche lower nobility between the Lambayeque and Jequetepeque regions. Although biology and material cultural link the Lord of Úcupe to Dos Cabezas, many objects in his tomb demonstrate his participation the world of the Sipán elites. These Moche lords were, on some levels, bioculturally interconnected. Nonetheless, the data broadly lend support to a “many Moches” model of sociopolitical structure, further casting doubt on earlier one-dimensional visions of a centralized hegemonic Moche polity.

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