Ancient pathways and geoglyphs in the Sihuas Valley of southern Peru

Bikoulis, Peter; Gonzalez-Macqueen, Felipe; Spence-Morrow, Giles; Bautista, Stefanie; Álvarez, Willy Yépez; Jennings, Justin

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.197

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“…Middle Horizon caravan trails bisect the northern edge of the Pacific Piedmont (Bikoulis et al 2018). Quilcapampa, like other Pacific Piedmont sites of the era (Nigra et al 2017), was oriented around these trails: both petroglyph evidence and faunal remains at the site reveal the important role that camelids played in maintaining Wari contacts between the highlands, coast, and intervalley regions of the yungas (Alaica et al 2021; Berquist et al 2021).…”

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Reconstructing Middle Horizon Camelid Diets and Foddering Practices: Microbotanical and Isotope Analyses of Dental Remains from Quilcapampa, Peru

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This study uses isotope and microbotanical data from the analysis of teeth and dental calculus to investigate camelid diet and foddering practices at Quilcapampa (AD 835–900). By providing taxonomically specific evidence of foods consumed, botanical data from dental calculus complement the more general impressions of photosynthetic pathways obtained through isotopic analysis. Results suggest that the camelid diet incorporated maize (Zea mays), algarrobo (Prosopis sp.), potato chuño (Solanum sp.), and other resources. The life-history profile of one camelid (Individual 3) reveals dietary change from mainly C3 plants to more C4 plant contributions as the animal aged. This pattern is supported by carbonate isotope results indicating that this individual spent its youth in the mid-valley ecozone before becoming more mobile later in life. As this life-history example shows, isotopic and microbotanical analyses are complementary approaches, clarifying a pattern of seasonal transhumance that linked the lives of humans and animals along the Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000) caravan networks that crisscrossed the central Andes.

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Reconstructing Middle Horizon Camelid Diets and Foddering Practices: Microbotanical and Isotope Analyses of Dental Remains from Quilcapampa, Peru

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“…Geoglyphs 2 to 5 are in a secluded quebrada that would have channeled people toward the largest geoglyph (Geoglyph 3), which is located below one of Cerro Misia's peaks that features yellow-colored rocks and stands out in the surrounding landscape. This would have been an ideal location for travelers to perform rituals before continuing their journey (for a description of such rituals, see Bikoulis et al 2018:1387–1388).…”

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A Group of Geoglyphs in the Lower Carabamba Valley, Northern Peru

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“…Quilcapampa straddles two precolumbian trails that provide access to the pampa (Bikoulis et al 2016, 2018; Jennings, Yépez Álvarez, and Bautista 2021; Jennings et al 2018). These trails and at least a few of the petroglyphs on the cliffs below the site predate the settlement by about a thousand years (Berquist et al 2018, 2021).…”

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Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru

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The Late Intermediate period in the south-central Andes is known for the widespread use of open sepulchres called chullpas by descent-based ayllus to claim rights to resources and express idealized notions of how society should be organized. Chullpas, however, were rarer on the coast, with the dead often buried individually in closed tombs. This article documents conditions under which these closed tombs were used at the site of Quilcapampa on the coastal plain of southern Peru, allowing an exploration into the ways that funerary traditions were employed to both reflect and generate community affiliation, ideals about sociopolitical organization, and land rights. After a long hiatus, the site was reoccupied and quickly expanded through local population aggregation and highland migrations. An ayllu organization that made ancestral claims to specific resources was poorly suited to these conditions, and the site's inhabitants instead seem to have organized themselves around the ruins of Quilcapampa's earlier occupation. In describing what happened in Quilcapampa, we highlight the need for a better understanding of the myriad ways that Andean peoples used mortuary customs to structure the lives of the living during a period of population movements and climate change.

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Ancient pathways and geoglyphs in the Sihuas Valley of southern Peru

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Reconstructing Middle Horizon Camelid Diets and Foddering Practices: Microbotanical and Isotope Analyses of Dental Remains from Quilcapampa, Peru

Reconstructing Middle Horizon Camelid Diets and Foddering Practices: Microbotanical and Isotope Analyses of Dental Remains from Quilcapampa, Peru

A Group of Geoglyphs in the Lower Carabamba Valley, Northern Peru

Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru

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