Late Nasca food and craft production in the Tierras Blancas Valley, Peru

Whalen, Verity H.; Rosa, Luis Manuel González La

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“…These ages are consistent with our luminescence results (Whalen and González 2014). Moreover, pottery from these phases is far more stylistically diverse than previously thought (Whalen 2014).…”

Section: Nasca 4-7supporting

confidence: 92%

“…Results from excavations at Cocahuischo, located in the Tierras Blancas valley of the SNR, suggest that Phases 6 and 7 overlap stratigraphically at the site and date to A.D. 450-550, based on radiocarbon assays. These ages are consistent with our luminescence results (Whalen and Gonzalez 2014). Moreover, pottery from these phases is far more stylistically diverse than previously thought (Whalen 2014).…”

Section: Nasca 4-7supporting

confidence: 92%

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It's about Time? Testing the Dawson Ceramic Seriation Using Luminescence Dating, Southern Nasca Region, Peru

Vaughn¹,

Eerkens

Lipo

et al. 2014

Latin Am. antiq.

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Section: Nasca 4-7supporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Nasca 4-7supporting

confidence: 92%

It's about Time? Testing the Dawson Ceramic Seriation Using Luminescence Dating, Southern Nasca Region, Peru

Vaughn¹,

Eerkens

Lipo

et al. 2014

Latin Am. antiq.

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“…In the Nasca desert, populations responded to severe drought during the sixth century CE by aggregating from more numerous, smaller settlements into fewer, larger settlements, and by abandoning their regional ceremonial center at Cahuachi (Conlee, ; Schreiber, ; Schreiber & Lancho Rojas, ; Silverman, ). By the beginning of the MH, Nasca polities were “balkanized,” but more connected to the highlands than ever before (Carmichael, ; Menzel, ; Schreiber & Lancho Rojas, ; Whalen & La Rosa, , p. 5). Around this time, people from the Wari homeland in the Ayacucho Valley expanded throughout the Peruvian Andes, reorganizing economies, subsistence, ritual practices, and sociopolitical structures in their heartland and at distant Wari outposts (Edwards & Schreiber, ; Isbell & McEwan, ; Jennings, ; Tung, ; Williams, ; Williams & Nash, ).…”

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Endemic violence in a pre‐Hispanic Andean community: A bioarchaeological study of cranial trauma from the Majes Valley, Peru

Scaffidi

Tung

2020

American J Phys Anthropol

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Objectives: This study examines violence-related cranial trauma frequencies and wound characteristics in the pre-Hispanic cemetery of Uraca in the lower Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru, dating to the pre-and early-Wari periods . Cranial wounds are compared between status and sex-based subgroups to understand how violence shaped, and was shaped by, these aspects of identity, and to reconstruct the social contexts of violence carried out by and against Uracans. Materials and Methods: Presence, location, and characteristics (lethality, penetration, and post-traumatic sequelae) of antemortem and perimortem cranial fractures are documented for 145 crania and compared between subgroups. Cranial wounds are mapped in ArcGIS and the locational distribution of injuries is compared between male and female crania.Results: Middle adult males were disproportionately interred at Uraca, particularly in the elite Sector I. The Uraca mortuary population presents the highest rate of cranial trauma reported for pre-Hispanic Peru: 67% of adults present trauma, and among those, 61.1% present more than one cranial injury. Males exhibit significantly more cranial trauma than females and present a higher mean number of injuries per person.Elite males show the highest mean number of injuries per person, more antemortem injuries, and are the only ones with perimortem cranial trauma, bladed injuries, penetrating injuries, and post-traumatic sequelae. Both sexes were most frequently injured on the anterior of the cranium, while the proportion of posterior injuries was higher for females.Discussion: The rate, intensity, and locational patterns of cranial trauma suggests the community was engaged in raids and/or war with enemy groups, some of which may have increased physical violence between community members. Engaging in violence was likely a prerequisite for burial in the elite sector and was bound up with the generation and maintenance of social status differences linked to male social life.

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“…Our data compilation resulted in bioarchaeological data from 29 publications for a sample of 4045 individuals from 58 sites spanning 1070 years in the south-central Andes (see Fig. 1; (Fouant, 1984;Blom and Bandy, 1999;Kellner, 2002;de la Vega et al, 2005;Torres-Rouff et al, 2005Lessa and de Souza, 2006;Tung, 2007Tung, , 2008cTung, , 2012Tung, , 2014aAndrushko et al, 2009;Cagigao, 2009;Andrushko and Torres, 2011;Kurin, 2012;Arkush and Tung, 2013;Whalen, 2014;Juengst and Skidmore, 2016;Kurin et al, 2016;Juengst et al, 2017;Lowman et al, 2019;Juengst, 2020;McCool, 2020;Scaffidi and Tung, 2020;Torres-Rouff, 2020;Bey et al, 2021). Unfortunately, disturbances to the dust cycles limit the temporal range of the paleoclimate record to ca.…”

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Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka

Snyder

Haas

2023

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The archaeology of the pre-contact Andes provides an ideal study of human responses to climate change given the region's extreme climatic variability, excellent archaeological preservation, and robust paleoclimate records. We evaluate the effects of climate change on the frequency of interpersonal violence in the south-central Andes from ca. 1.5–0.5 ka (AD 470–1540) by comparing incidents of skeletal trauma observed among 2753 crania from 58 sites to rates of ice accumulation at the Quelccaya Glacier. We find that, in the highlands, the odds of identifying inter-personal violence increase on average by a multiplicative factor of 2.4 (1.8–3.2; 95% C.I.) for every 10-centimeter decrease in annual ice accumulation. Our statistical analysis does not detect a relationship between ice accumulation and interpersonal violence rates among coastal or mid-elevation populations. This disparity likely resulted from variable economic and sociopolitical strategies at different elevations. The failure of rain-fed agriculture during periods of drought and concomitant dissolution of organizing polities likely predisposed highland populations to socioeconomic stress and violent competition for limited resources. Conversely, diversity among lowland and midland economies may have buffered against the effect of drought.

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Late Nasca food and craft production in the Tierras Blancas Valley, Peru

Cited by 8 publications

References 65 publications

It's about Time? Testing the Dawson Ceramic Seriation Using Luminescence Dating, Southern Nasca Region, Peru

It's about Time? Testing the Dawson Ceramic Seriation Using Luminescence Dating, Southern Nasca Region, Peru

Endemic violence in a pre‐Hispanic Andean community: A bioarchaeological study of cranial trauma from the Majes Valley, Peru

Climate change intensified violence in the south-central Andean highlands from 1.5 to 0.5 ka

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