Doubts about how the Middle Horizon Collapsed on the South Coast of Peru (c. AD 1000), and other insights from the looted cemeteries of the Lower Ica Valley
Doubts about how the Middle Horizon Collapsed on the South Coast of Peru (c. AD 1000), and other insights from the looted cemeteries of the Lower Ica Valley
This paper presents new information from funerary contexts in the lower Ica Valley, south coast of Peru, spanning two millennia from the end of the Early Horizon to the Late Intermediate Period. Although severely looted, these sites can still yield valuable information. We discuss their architecture and material culture in the context of radiocarbon dates. Among other findings, these cast new light on the poorly understood transition from the Middle Horizon to the Late Intermediate Period, for which a paucity of archaeological data from c.A.D. 1000 to 1250 has long been taken as evidence of an environmentally or socially-induced demographic collapse. Yet the data we present here suggests that the basins of the lower Ica Valley were likely occupied continuously over this period, and that the echoes of Wari influence here may have lasted longer than previously thought.
burial archaeology, chronology, Late Intermediate Period, Middle Horizon, South coast of Peru
316-331
Cadwallader, Lauren
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Sturt, Fraser C.
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Pullen, Alexander G.
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Cadwallader, Lauren
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Beresford-Jones, David G.
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Sturt, Fraser C.
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Pullen, Alexander G.
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Cadwallader, Lauren, Beresford-Jones, David G., Sturt, Fraser C., Pullen, Alexander G. and Arce Torres, Susana
(2018)
Doubts about how the Middle Horizon Collapsed on the South Coast of Peru (c. AD 1000), and other insights from the looted cemeteries of the Lower Ica Valley.
Journal of Field Archaeology, 43 (4), .
(doi:10.1080/00934690.2018.1464306).
Abstract
This paper presents new information from funerary contexts in the lower Ica Valley, south coast of Peru, spanning two millennia from the end of the Early Horizon to the Late Intermediate Period. Although severely looted, these sites can still yield valuable information. We discuss their architecture and material culture in the context of radiocarbon dates. Among other findings, these cast new light on the poorly understood transition from the Middle Horizon to the Late Intermediate Period, for which a paucity of archaeological data from c.A.D. 1000 to 1250 has long been taken as evidence of an environmentally or socially-induced demographic collapse. Yet the data we present here suggests that the basins of the lower Ica Valley were likely occupied continuously over this period, and that the echoes of Wari influence here may have lasted longer than previously thought.
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Doubts about How the Middle Horizon Collapsed ca A D 1000 and Other Insights from the Looted Cemeteries of the Lower Ica Valley South Coast of Peru
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 November 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 May 2018
Keywords:
burial archaeology, chronology, Late Intermediate Period, Middle Horizon, South coast of Peru
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419230
ISSN: 2042-4582
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Lauren Cadwallader
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Alexander G. Pullen
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Susana Arce Torres
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