Communities of weavers: A methodology for analyzing textile and cloth production

Bongers, Jacob; O’Shea, Colleen; Farahani, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.09.025

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“…UC-012 Tomb 33 (2.15 × 2.10 m) has an unknown number of multiple individuals deposited alongside textiles, maize, and gourds. Four previously published 14 C AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) dates ( 18 ) from UC-008 Tomb 1 indicate grave use in the Late Horizon and Colonial period (1532 to 1825 CE). Since no Colonial-era artifacts have been recovered in the middle Chincha Valley, these dates suggest that the individuals in this tomb are from the Late Horizon.…”

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“…1). UC-008 Tomb 1 (3.09 × 2.35 m) contains at least 117 people as well as textiles, ceramics, and fragments of maize and gourds (17,18). UC-012 Tomb 33 (2.15 × 2.10 m) has an unknown number of multiple individuals deposited alongside textiles, maize, and gourds.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As another type of material object, textiles carry the same limitations as ceramic vessels, yet in the Andes, they are broadly viewed as one of the most important indicators of group identity (24). This is because ethnographic and archaeological research suggests that Andean weavers, both past and present, learned and transmitted technical knowledge in group environments, thereby establishing preferences in textile production practices that distinguished communities, cultures, and group identities (18,25,26). The Inca required mitmaqkuna to retain their traditional textile styles (27).…”

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“…A study of 127 loose threads and 42 fragments of cloth recovered from Lo Demás shows that not only are all textiles woven in the plain weave structure, but that most of these textiles feature paired warps and single wefts ( 22 ). Most recently, 141 textiles from UC-008 Tomb 1 were analyzed ( 18 ). These data demonstrate that 64% (90 out of 141) display the plain weave structure with paired warps ( Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Integration of ancient DNA with transdisciplinary dataset finds strong support for Inca resettlement in the south Peruvian coast

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis provides a powerful means of investigating human migration, social organization, and a plethora of other crucial questions about humanity’s past. Recently, specialists have suggested that the ideal research design involving aDNA would include multiple independent lines of evidence. In this paper, we adopt a transdisciplinary approach integrating aDNA with archaeological, biogeochemical, and historical data to investigate six individuals found in two cemeteries that date to the Late Horizon (1400 to 1532 CE) and Colonial (1532 to 1825 CE) periods in the Chincha Valley of southern Peru. Genomic analyses indicate that these individuals are genetically most similar to ancient and present-day populations from the north Peruvian coast located several hundred kilometers away. These genomic data are consistent with 16th century written records as well as ceramic, textile, and isotopic data. These results provide some of the strongest evidence yet of state-sponsored resettlement in the pre-Colonial Andes. This study highlights the power of transdisciplinary research designs when using aDNA data and sets a methodological standard for investigating ancient mobility in complex societies.

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Integration of ancient DNA with transdisciplinary dataset finds strong support for Inca resettlement in the south Peruvian coast

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“…Twelve AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained from the Keck-CCAMS Facility at the University of California Irvine (UCIAMS) (Table S1, OSM1), four of which were reported previously (Bongers et al 2018). Nine botanical samples from reed posts were processed using the acid-base-acid (ABA) technique, while three dates on human vertebrae were obtained using ultra-filtered collagen.…”

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Assembling the dead: human vertebrae-on-posts in the Chincha Valley, Peru

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The post-mortem manipulation of human bodies is documented in many regions of the world, including South America. Recent archaeological fieldwork in the Chincha Valley, Peru, adds to this catalogue nearly 200 examples of the threading of human vertebrae onto reed posts. Here, the authors report on the distribution and composition of these ‘vertebrae-on-posts’, which are radiocarbon-dated to the Late Horizon (AD 1400–1532) and Colonial (AD 1532–1825) periods. The authors argue that these modified remains represent a social process that reconstructed the dead in response to Colonial-period looting. This manipulation of human remains reflects protracted relationships between the living and the dead, and the enduring social lives of human remains.

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Gendered Crafts in the Great Salt Lake Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Cordage and Coiled Basketry

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Perishable artifacts are invaluable tools for reconstructing past lifeways of hunter-gatherers, and when preserved in arid settings, they can inform on dynamic interactions between communities and the environment. Many such materials were recovered from early archaeological surveys in Utah and Nevada but were largely excluded from contemporary analyses because of small sample sizes, their fragmentary nature, and insecure proveniences. This synchronic reanalysis of cordage and coiled basketry from 10 late Holocene sites in the Great Salt Lake Desert utilizes newer approaches to perishables analysis so as to collect data more conducive to statistical comparisons of subsistence and craft traditions absent from earlier Great Basin studies. Regional trends of conformity of fine cordage contrasted with a diversity of basketry manufacture suggest contemporaneous social stressors directing the production of materials and two potentially gendered subclasses of utilitarian objects. Feminine and masculine perishable crafts in the Bonneville Basin follow separate manufacturing traditions, observable despite small sample sizes and poor dating of these curated collections.

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Communities of weavers: A methodology for analyzing textile and cloth production

Cited by 6 publications

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Integration of ancient DNA with transdisciplinary dataset finds strong support for Inca resettlement in the south Peruvian coast

Integration of ancient DNA with transdisciplinary dataset finds strong support for Inca resettlement in the south Peruvian coast

Assembling the dead: human vertebrae-on-posts in the Chincha Valley, Peru

Gendered Crafts in the Great Salt Lake Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Cordage and Coiled Basketry

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