Llamas on the Land: Production and Consumption of Meat at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana A. Rosenfeld ◽  
Matthew P. Sayre
Keyword(s):  
Formative Period ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Abundant Evidence ◽  
Chavín De Huántar

Chavín de Huántar is a Formative-period site (broadly 1500–200 B.C.) in the Peruvian Andes known for its highly complex art and monumental architecture. Recent excavations in the La Banda sector uncovered domestic settlements. The zooarchaeological analysis demonstrates that meat was locally produced and many bone tools were manufactured in this sector. These results contrast with previous faunal analysis from other parts of the site in which it was argued that dry camelid meat on the bone (ch’arki) was traded in exchange for local crops. The local economy of Chavín de Huántar was complex, showing different economic strategies across the site. While there is abundant evidence for the trade of lightweight exotic goods at the site (seashells, marine bone, obsidian, and cinnabar), the subsistence economy was locally focused.

Landscape Setting as Medium of Communication at Chavín de Huántar, Peru

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Dynamic Landscape ◽  
Multiple Audiences ◽  
Late Formative ◽  
Chavín De Huántar

The Central Andean ceremonial centre of Chavín de Huántar is situated in a dramatic, mountainous and dynamic environment high on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, yet the site's landscape setting has remained in the shadow of its monumental architecture, complex lithic art and highly elaborated material culture. Nevertheless, that dynamic landscape setting was an integral part of the site's significance as a ceremonial centre and may be read as evidence of the capacity, worldview and message of the site's builders. First, Chavín's setting is evidence of capacity, demonstrating the considerable degree of labour mobilization and organization, as well as expertise, implied by the site's modified landscape. Second, Chavín's landscape, considered in its Central Andean context, provides evidence of worldview, demonstrating that landscape setting was a medium of interest for Chavín's designers. Third, the modified landscape provides evidence of message, allowing exploration of what Chavín's designers were trying to communicate, and to whom. Focusing on these three aspects in reading Chavín's landscape suggests that landscape setting was a vital aspect of Central Andean Middle and Late Formative Period (1000–500 bce) ceremonial centres and argues that emergent elites actively exploited landscape setting as a communicative medium and forum for dissemination of ideology, deliberately communicating to multiple audiences.

scholarly journals CHAVÍN DE HUÁNTAR Y LA DEFINICIÓN ARQUEOLÓGICA DE UN ESTADO TEOCRÁTICO ANDINO

2011 ◽  
pp. 47-92
Author(s):  
Henry Tantaleán
Keyword(s):  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Chavín De Huántar

En este artículo se propone que el sitio arqueológico de Chavín de Huántar fue la materialización y el centro de un Estado Teocrático Andino. Para darle sustento a dicha propuesta se plantean una serie de indicadores arqueológicos los cuales surgen de la información acumulada y actualizada como también de nuestras propias observaciones. Con tal propuesta inspirada en el materialismo histórico se espera generar una discusión centrada en los objetos arqueológicos y que atienda a las condiciones materiales particulares y a la trayectoria histórica de los Andes centrales.

Analogism at Chavín de Huántar

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Nicco La Mattina
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Chavín De Huántar ◽  
A Site ◽  
Material Record

Approaches to understanding the core beliefs and worldviews of ancient peoples are not superficially facilitated by the archaeological record. Sometimes, pre-Columbian people are described by analogy to presumably similar contemporary people; that is, a theoretical framework applicable to certain modern peoples is applied a priori in the investigation of a site. This chapter argues that at Chavín de Huántar, interpretations centred around animism and shamanism employ these concepts a priori as ways of understanding the material record. Many of the references to shamanism make specific analogies to Amazonian practices and import these ideas to Chavín de Huántar. Furthermore, the chapter authors argue that, if the iconographic and material record at Chavín de Huánta are carefully evaluated, interpretations centred around animism and shamanism will not follow. The authors demonstrate that the analogist ontology formulated by Descola finds a firmer grounding in the iconographic and material record when these are considered together.

Chavín de Huántar

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Miguel La Serna
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
Chavín De Huántar

Nestor Cerpa and the MRTA rebels inside the Japanese ambassador’s residence engage in more symbolic warfare. A rescue force storms the residence, killing Cerpa and the other MRTA members. Fujimori’s government had been planning the operation, code-named Chavin de Huantar, for months.

Mary Is Sick!

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-233
Author(s):  
Miguel La Serna
Keyword(s):  
Chavin De Huantar ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Chavín De Huántar

In the months before Operation Chavin de Huantar, hostage Luis Giampietri gathers intel on his captors and establishes secret contact with SIN, the national intelligence force headed up by Vladimiro Montesinos. Giampietri, Marco Miyashiro, and Francisco Tudela, the Peruvian chancellor, are among the hostages rescued in the operation. Fujimori greets the rescued hostages as a national hero.

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