Tiwanaku trade patterns in southern Peru

Stanish, Charles; Vega, Edmundo de la; Moseley, Michael E.; Williams, Patrick Ryan; Chavez, Joey; Vining, Benjamin; LaFavre, Karl

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2010.09.002

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“…[25][26][27][28][29], or through the incorporation of compositional analysis to the study of a variety of materials into broader studies in recent years (30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40). However, such studies have selectively focused on individual classes of archaeological evidence (i.e., either pottery or obsidian), unintentionally concealing the substantial complexity of ancient exchange practices.…”

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Compositional data supports decentralized model of production and circulation of artifacts in the pre-Columbian south-central Andes

Lazzari

Domingorena

Stoner

et al. 2017

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

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The circulation and exchange of goods and resources at various scales have long been considered central to the understanding of complex societies, and the Andes have provided a fertile ground for investigating this process. However, long-standing archaeological emphasis on typological analysis, although helpful to hypothesize the direction of contacts, has left important aspects of ancient exchange open to speculation. To improve understanding of ancient exchange practices and their potential role in structuring alliances, we examine material exchanges in northwest Argentina (part of the south-central Andes) during 400 BC to AD 1000 (part of the regional Formative Period), with a multianalytical approach (petrography, instrumental neutron activation analysis, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) to artifacts previously studied separately. We assess the standard centralized model of interaction vs. a decentralized model through the largest provenance database available to date in the region. The results show: (i) intervalley heterogeneity of clays and fabrics for ordinary wares; (ii) intervalley homogeneity of clays and fabrics for a wide range of decorated wares (e.g., painted Ciénaga); (iii) selective circulation of two distinct polychrome wares (Vaquerías and Condorhuasi); (iv) generalized access to obsidian from one major source and various minor sources; and (v) selective circulation of volcanic rock tools from a single source. These trends reflect the multiple and conflicting demands experienced by people in small-scale societies, which may be difficult to capitalize by aspiring elites. The study undermines centralized narratives of exchange for this period, offering a new platform for understanding ancient exchange based on actual material transfers, both in the Andes and beyond.south-central Andes | archaeology | exchange | complexity | compositional

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Section: Significancementioning

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Compositional data supports decentralized model of production and circulation of artifacts in the pre-Columbian south-central Andes

Lazzari

Domingorena

Stoner

et al. 2017

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

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“…The production and movement of resources and craft goods were central to the functioning of the Tiwanaku state, provisioning the capital with crops that were important to religious and political practices but that did not grow in the high-altitude homeland, acting as a means through which hinterland and provincial Tiwanaku communities asserted their affiliation with the state center, and mediating ties with non-Tiwanaku elites on the edges of the state's sphere of influence (Bermann 1994;Goldstein 1985Goldstein , 2005Janusek 2002;Kolata 1993a;Torres-Rouff 2008;Torres and Conklin 1995;Stanish et al 2010).…”

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Pottery production, regional exchange, and state collapse during the Middle Horizon (A.D.500–1000): LA-ICP-MS analyses of Tiwanaku pottery in the Moquegua Valley, Peru

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Golitko

Williams

2015

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…106), core outposts offer unique viewpoints on the nature and extent of the foreign policy of archaic states, but also on the case-specific trajectories early states followed after core polities lost political and economic command over an enclave. In the case of Pampa La Cruz, the realignment from Virú to Moche was apparently associated with an expansion of the settlement and the substitution of Virú Negative pottery with Moche ceramics as the prestige artifacts of choice in funerary contexts.…”

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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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Tiwanaku trade patterns in southern Peru

Cited by 68 publications

References 35 publications

Compositional data supports decentralized model of production and circulation of artifacts in the pre-Columbian south-central Andes

Compositional data supports decentralized model of production and circulation of artifacts in the pre-Columbian south-central Andes

Pottery production, regional exchange, and state collapse during the Middle Horizon (A.D.500–1000): LA-ICP-MS analyses of Tiwanaku pottery in the Moquegua Valley, Peru

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

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