The architect’s signature: The social production of a residential landscape at Monte Viudo, Chachapoyas, Peru

Guengerich, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2013.12.005

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“…Across these distinct ecozones a variety of domesticated C 3 and C 4 plants are cultivated. Recent paleobotanical research (Koschmieder, 2012;Guengerich, 2014) suggests that a mix of plants were consumed at archaeological centers. Recent paleobotanical research (Koschmieder, 2012;Guengerich, 2014) suggests that a mix of plants were consumed at archaeological centers.…”

Section: Imperial Strategies In Chachapoyasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Chachapoya cultural fluorescence appears to have begun around AD 800 with the construction of larger, permanent communities and the coalescence of shared architectural and iconographic canons (Church & von Hagen, 2008;Guengerich, 2014). Many sites appear to have fairly long occupational sequences and consistently show evidence of the Inca arrival ca.…”

Section: The Chachapoyas Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent excavations of domestic architecture at Monte Vuido by Guengerich (2014) provide phytolith and macrobotanical analyses of soils, artifacts, and faunal remains that identify a diet focused primarily on high altitude crops (kiwicha, grains, and potatoes) and camelid (llama/alpaca) pastoralism. These results contrast to Koschmieder's (2012) survey of various sites in the lower elevation Jucusbamba region, north of Kuelap.…”

Section: Archaeological Reconstructions Of Chachapoya Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ethnographic work by Brush (1977) in Uchucmarca, and biogeographical research by Young (1993) in nearby Pataz identified agro-economic systems where modern communities consume and produce resources from a wide range of environmental zones at different elevations. Recent paleobotanical research (Koschmieder, 2012;Guengerich, 2014) suggests that a mix of plants were consumed at archaeological centers. These resources if evenly consumed where everyone had access would produce this mixed dietary signal, yet within this sample we have a trend toward more 13 C-depleted (more C 3 -based diet) and a few with 13 C-enriched diets (more C 4 -based diet).…”

Section: Imperial Strategies In Chachapoyasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru

Toyne

Church

Tello

et al. 2016

American J Phys Anthropol

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These are the first isotopic data from a Chachapoya site and our research shows evidence for minimal non-local presence in this commingled burial assemblage. The regional diet reconstructed at Los Pinchudos (2850 masl) focused on resources of higher altitude tuber crops, beans, and grains (C ) and terrestrial protein rather than on lower elevation grasses such as maize (C ) as in other highland Andean regions under Inca control. During imperial domination, inhabitants of this region appropriated Inca materials goods but continued to construct tombs in the local manner even though a potentially diverse population was occupying them.

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Section: Imperial Strategies In Chachapoyasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Chachapoyas Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Archaeological Reconstructions Of Chachapoya Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Imperial Strategies In Chachapoyasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru

Toyne

Church

Tello

et al. 2016

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…With the advent of micro-scale household archaeology, greater variability in ancient house sites has been detected than expected from the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record and archaeological models (Allison, 2001;Carballo, 2011;Carpenter et al, 2012;De Lucia and Overholtzer, 2014;Guengerich, 2014;Kahn, 2005;Levine, 2011;Nash, 2009;Pluckhahn, 2010;Robin, 2003). This is, in part, linked to social variability, such as gradations in status and rank, including lesser ranked chiefs or lineages, gender, or occupational specialization, that is not noted in historic accounts and ethnographies.…”

Section: Household Archaeology and Defining Social Variabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying residences of ritual practitioners in the archaeological record as a proxy for social complexity

Kahn

2015

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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a b s t r a c tDedicated ritual specialists often had indispensable roles in ancient religions and significant impacts on political histories. Few studies have developed methodologies for recovering direct evidence for ritual practitioners in the archaeological record. I argue that the study of religious practitioners must take a holistic micro-scale approach, documenting not only the places where ritual paraphernalia (sacra) were stored, but places where priests and their assistants lived and practiced intimate and communal rituals. I begin with a discussion of ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to model what priests did in ancient societies, and what the material correlates of their dwellings and activities might look like. I then present archaeological data from two late prehistoric house sites identified as priest dwellings from East Polynesian. Utilizing multiple lines of evidence, including portable artifacts, botanical specimens, site architecture, and site distribution patterns, I argue that there is close complementarity between the eth nohistoric-ethnographic model and the archaeological remains. That priests' houses houses are often situated within corporate ritual centers speaks to the import of such sites and their associated ceremonial activities in the strategic use ideology to institutionalize social hierarchies and political status, a pattern seen in many other ranked societies in Polynesia and other case studies world-wide.

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The use of OBIA and petrography in the study of stone masonry: The case of La Palma, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Rodríguez Osorio,

Weber Scharff,

Izurieta

et al. 2023

Geoarchaeology

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In this case study, rubble masonry walls from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Northern Colombia were investigated. We applied a combined object‐based image analysis (OBIA), photogrammetry, and petrography method to characterize and determine the provenance of the materials used in three targeted terraces of the archaeological site of La Palma. In situ data acquisition included detailed photographic records and petrographic descriptions of a selected section of masonry walls, as well as mapping of local geological units. Photographs were processed using OBIA. The data obtained allowed characterization and systematization of the constructive elements, via parameters that include architectural function within the construction (headers, stretchers, and wedges), roundness, and lithotype. This methodology enabled us to identify the source of the lithotypes from local rock outcrops (metagranodiorite and schist) as well as rock boulders and cobbles from the nearby riverbeds. The results suggest that pre‐Hispanic communities had knowledge of the properties of the geological resources available in the region, which they used to build masonry that has endured more than five centuries. Vertical differences identified in segments of different terrace walls suggest changes in the constructive process and therefore may serve to determine a construction chronology.

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The architect’s signature: The social production of a residential landscape at Monte Viudo, Chachapoyas, Peru

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru

Exploring imperial expansion using an isotopic analysis of paleodietary and paleomobility indicators in Chachapoyas, Peru

Identifying residences of ritual practitioners in the archaeological record as a proxy for social complexity

The use of OBIA and petrography in the study of stone masonry: The case of La Palma, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

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