Gallinazo and Moche at the Santa Rita B Archaeological Complex, Middle Chao Valley

Kent, Jonathan; Tham, Teresa Rosales; Sánchez, Vı́ctor; Busch, R.A.; Gaither, Catherine

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“…The orientation of six hilltop citadels (including Huaca Santa Clara) at the neck of the Virú Valley suggests that these sites may have served as checkpoints for people passing between the highlands and coast. Elsewhere on the north coast of Peru, archaeological work in the Chicama (Attarian 2003), Moche (Billman 1996), Chao (Kent et al 2009), Santa (Wilson 1988), and Nepeña (Proulx 1982) Valleys has revealed the presence of forts, fortifications, defensive walls, parapets, and lookouts strategically positioned at the valley neck, a pattern suggesting that control of coast-highland movements was a key preoccupation for local authorities during the EIP.…”

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Origins of Prehispanic Camelid Wool Textiles from the North and Central Coasts of Peru Traced by Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

Szpak¹,

Millaire²,

White³

et al. 2015

Current Anthropology

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Carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of wool textiles from the north (Virú, Early Intermediate Period) and central (Chancay, Late Intermediate Period) coasts of Peru were used to reconstruct the diet and habitat of the camelids (llamas and alpacas) from which they were produced in order to better understand the regional political economies. The Chancay textiles were derived from camelids primarily raised on highaltitude C3 grasslands. Similarly, isotopic data from Virú textiles assembled in north-coast styles are consistent with the importation of highland camelid wool. For both Virú and Chancay, imported raw materials were crafted in local styles, serving as an effective means of materializing corporate power. Stylistically foreign (noncoastal) Virú textiles were characterized by carbon isotopic compositions similar to those for camelids recovered from Early Intermediate Period sites in the Virú Valley and suggest that these textiles originated in the yungas (1,000–2,300 m asl) or the low sierra (2,300–3,500 m asl). Accordingly, although highland camelid wool was imported to the coast, a simple model of exchange involving the movement of wool textiles exclusively from the puna or the altiplano to the coast is untenable

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confidence: 97%

Origins of Prehispanic Camelid Wool Textiles from the North and Central Coasts of Peru Traced by Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

Szpak¹,

Millaire²,

White³

et al. 2015

Current Anthropology

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“…Para el valle de Chao, también en la parte media-alta, específicamente en el sitio de Santa Rita B, el equipo de investigadores dirigidos por Jonathan Kent (Kent et al, 2009) ha resaltado la presencia de cerámica Recuay y cerámica «similar a Recuay», que tienen mucha similitud con la cerámica del estilo Cerro León. Además, se debe señalar que, para el caso del sitio de Santa Rosa B, se han registrado evidencias de corrales de camélidos, que corresponderían a caravanas de llamas, que explicarían en parte el movimiento de bienes de la parte alta (sierra) hacia la parte baja (costa) de los Andes Occidentales del norte del Perú, aun cuando dichas caravanas habrían motivado que la residencia de serranos en esta parte del valle de Chao haya sido menos permanente (Kent et al, 2009, pp.…”

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Cerro León y la ocupación rural serrana antes de la formación del Estado Moche, parte media del valle de Moche

Rosario¹

2018

Quingnam

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Se presentan los resultados de las investigaciones arqueológicas realizadas en el sitio rural de Cerro León (MV-225 o sector 1), ubicado en la parte media y margen izquierda del valle de Moche, ocupado por una población proveniente de la sierra a principios del periodo Intermedio Temprano, contemporáneo con el periodo Gallinazo, antes de la formación del Estado Moche. Las características de la cerámica asociada a diversos recintos, construidos con piedra canteada, nos permiten señalar, con mucha seguridad, sobre la presencia de grupos humanos provenientes de la sierra de la meseta de Carabamba y el área de Otuzco, que están ocupando la parte media del valle de Moche y que, sin duda, debieron establecer una compleja red de relaciones políticas, económicas y sociales con las poblaciones costeñas vinculadas con la ocupación Gallinazo. Los pobladores serranos establecidos en Cerro León desarrollaron diversas actividades como el trabajo de cuentas y otros objetos de piedra, la producción de objetos de metal, además de la preparación de grandes banquetes para reforzar sus lazos de identidad serrana, utilizando una diversidad de vasijas de cerámica elaboradas en la región de la sierra.

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Statecraft and expansionary dynamics: A Virú outpost at Huaca Prieta, Chicama Valley, Peru

Millaire

Prieto

Surette

et al. 2016

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

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Interpolity interaction and regional control were central features of all early state societies, taking the form of trade-embedded in political processes to varying degrees-or interregional conquest strategies meant to expand the polity's control or influence over neighboring territories. Cross-cultural analyses of early statecraft suggest that territorial expansion was an integral part of the process of primary state formation, closely associated with the delegation of authority to subordinate administrators and the construction of core outposts of the state in foreign territories. We report here on a potential case of a core outpost, associated with the early Virú state, at the site of Huaca Prieta in the Chicama Valley, located 75 km north of the Virú state heartland on the north coast of Peru. This site is discussed in the context of other possible Virú outposts in the Moche Valley, Pampa La Cruz, and Huaca Las Estrellas, and as part of a broader reflection on expansionary dynamics and statecraft.archaic states | territorial expansion | core outposts R esearch carried out over the past decades suggests that territorial expansion and consolidation often played a key role in the crystallization of early states (1-18). Drawing from historical case studies from Madagascar, Wright noted that statecraft generally takes place in contexts of conflict and expansionary dynamics in landscapes that often featured closely spaced and competing centers and that this process is usually marked by many successes and failures before enduring states emerge (18). Viewed as a process rather than as an evolutionary breakthrough, research into statecraft has contributed to the anthropological study of early civilization by documenting the varied historically contingent trajectories ancient polities followed as they developed more complex systems of political organization.In his work on the expansionary dynamics of primary state formations, Algaze (1) stressed the important role played by core outposts in early statecraft. Such outposts were founded at crucial nodes along trade routes, near resources concentrations, or amid strategically located native polities in control of existing corridors of communication and trade and functioned as centers attracting information, services, population, and resources from the surrounding regions. Reviewing archaeological evidence from different regions around the world, Algaze found that outposts often represented the culmination of earlier patterns of interregional exchange that had by then intensified and become formalized, that, for their own political ends, local elites were often initially amenable to granting such access to foreign powers, and that transportational constraints "meant that the most efficient way to channel regular exchanges between such contrastive polities was precisely by means of isolated core outposts embedded within distant peripheries" (ref. 1, pp. 319-320).To Algaze, core outposts were therefore important "instruments of expansion" founded on the asymmetrical relatio...

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Gallinazo and Moche at the Santa Rita B Archaeological Complex, Middle Chao Valley

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Origins of Prehispanic Camelid Wool Textiles from the North and Central Coasts of Peru Traced by Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

Origins of Prehispanic Camelid Wool Textiles from the North and Central Coasts of Peru Traced by Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses

Cerro León y la ocupación rural serrana antes de la formación del Estado Moche, parte media del valle de Moche

Statecraft and expansionary dynamics: A Virú outpost at Huaca Prieta, Chicama Valley, Peru

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