Thomas Pozorski
Biographic Data
| ID | 112805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Pozorski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pozorski |
| SIGNATURE | POZORSKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7819-1930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 386 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The Mystery of Choromytilus chorus: Factors Affecting the Apparent Demise of a Culturally Important Mollusk Along Western South America
Choromytilus chorus virtually vanished from most Peruvian archaeological sites about 1000 BC. This species’ disappearance is significant because Choromytilus chorus is one of the most recognizable mollusks in the archaeological remains of coastal Peru because of its large size and rich purple color. In this study we investigate the choro mussel, which was a highly valued food source, a raw material for fishhooks and other fishing gear, and a spec…
Recent Excavations at the Initial Period Site of Taukachi-Konkán, Casma Valley, Peru
Taukachi-Konkán is a large planned settlement that formed part of the Sechín Alto Polity which governed the Casma Valley during the Initial Period. Fieldwork there during five seasons focused on four aligned platform mound complexes, three of which are oriented toward a road that enters Taukachi-Konkán from the north while the fourth complex forms a corner where the road enters the site center. Excavation and survey data revealed the mounds funct…
Insult to veneration: The evolution of prehistoric intrusiveness within the Casma Valley of Peru
Early Complex Society on the North and Central Peruvian Coast: New Archaeological Discoveries and New Insights
Newly Discovered Friezes at the Peruvian Site of Taukachi-Konkán: A Possible Glimpse Into Initial Period Cosmology
Excavations conducted in 2015 and 2016 discovered a unique set of friezes at the Initial period (2100–1000 cal BC) site of Taukachi-Konkán in the coastal Peruvian valley of Casma. At this time, the Casma Valley was dominated by the Sechín Alto polity, a cultural development of unprecedented complexity characterized by large planned cities, monumental constructions, and strong interconnections among component settlements. Friezes are known from al…
Huerequeque: An inland outpost of the Initial Period Sechín Alto Polity in the Casma Valley of Peru
The Sechín Alto Polity effectively controlled the Casma Valley zone on the Peruvian north coast during the Initial Period (2100–1000 cal b.c.) through an inclusive administrative strategy whereby large inland centers and their component monumental architecture served specific, complementary functions within the polity. Smaller satellite sites established on the coast insured a supply of marine protein to the inland agricultural centers. The polit…
Exploring access control at Taukachi Tardío
Taukachi Tardío is a site of the Casma Culture or Casma Polity that dates to the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000) and Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1000-1470). It functioned as a checkpoint and possible repository alongside a major valley access route from the north into the Sechín Branch of the Casma Valley. Excavations there revealed that visitors were channeled through a narrow corridor and staircase system. A room with six grinding stones docume…
The Square-Room Unit as an Emblem of Power and Authority within the Initial Period Sechín Alto Polity, Casma Valley, Peru
Some 3,500 years ago, the Sechín Alto Polity built large, precisely planned cities, one of which contained the largest structures in the New World at that time. Such accomplishments reflect strong, enduring leadership, and we propose that the power and leadership role of these leaders was tangibly manifested by a unique, widely used architectural element and by a related symbol within polity iconography. The distinctive architectural form is a fr…
Excavations at Huaca Herederos Chica, Moche Valley, Peru
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Discoveries of Moche Ceramics in the Casma Valley, Peru
In 1980, investigations by the authors recovered the first well-documented evidence of the Moche culture in the Casma Valley, Peru. This evidence includes the intrusive burial of a small child within a courtyard at the Early Horizon site of San Diego, and some surface ceramics collected from a small cemetery near the Initial Period site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke. Analysis of the ceramics shows that they pertain to the Moche Phase III. An unca…
Las Haldas: An Expanding Initial Period Polity of Coastal Peru
The site of Las Haldas is the largest and most complex early Peruvian coastal site, and its location, overlooking the ocean and 20 km or more from arable land, makes it enigmatic. Building on the work of Peruvian, French, Japanese, and American archaeologists since the 1950s, our excavations within the Casma Valley area document the development of a substantial Initial period (2150-1000 cal BC) polity at Las Haldas that expanded inland as the Sec…
Architecture and Chronology at the Site of Sechín Alto, Casma Valley, Peru
The Initial Period, between 2150 and 1000 cal B.C., was a critical time in the development of civilization within the Andean area of South America. About 2100 cal B.C., within several river valleys along the north-central coast of Peru, sudden changes occurred in subsistence, settlement pattern, and level of cultural complexity. These changes were especially notable within the Casma Valley where labor was mobilized to build large flat-topped pyra…
El Desarrollo De La Sociedad Compleja en El Valle De Casma
Las ciudades complejas desarrollaron cerca grupos de montículos monumentales en el valle de Casma durante el Período Inicial o Formativo Temprano, alrededor de los 1500 años a.C. Entre ellos, el sitio más conocido hasta el momento es Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, pero éste es solamente uno entre varios sitios importantes del mencionado valle durante aquella época y la anterior, el precerámico Tardío. Este artículo examina los orígenes de algunas ca…
Una reevaluación del desarrollo de la sociedad compleja durante el Precerámico Tardío en base a los fechados radiocarbónicos y a las investigaciones arqueológicas en el valle de Casma
En muchos aspectos, los sitios precerámicos de Casma son típicos de las ocupaciones precerámicas del resto del Perú. Sin embargo, en los sitios de Tortugas y Huaynuná de Casma se encuentran los inicios de la arquitectura no doméstica o monumental. Además, en el sitio de Huaynuná tambien hay evidencia de una ocupación "acerámica" que coexistía con los primeros asentamientos con cerámica del Periodo Inicial o Formativo Temprano. El reconocimiento d…
The Moche
The Moche. Garth Bawden. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 375 pp
La dinámica del valle de Casma durante el Periodo Inicial
Algunos de los complejos arquitectónicos más grandes en el Nuevo Mundo se construyeron en el valle de Casma durante el Periodo Inicial (2500-1000 a.C.), y se contaron entre los más espectaculares de su época. En este artículo se presentan resultados preliminares de excavaciones realizadas por los autores en esa zona, las cuales proveen de información sobre las interrelaciones entre los dos sitios principales, Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke y el Compl…
Ventilated Hearth Structures in the Casma Valley, Peru
Recent investigations in the Casma Valley on the north-central coast of Peru have uncovered a series of circular and rectangular/square structures, each containing a central hearth associated with either four subfloor ventilation shafts or a single open ventilation trough. The structures date to the Late Preceramic period (2500-1800 B. C.) and the Initial period (1800-900 B. C.). All are small and were originally roofed with perishable materials …
Huaca de los Reyes Revisited: Clarification of the Archaeological Evidence
Recent publications have seriously misrepresented architectural and archaeological information concerning the important Initial Period (1800-900 B. C.) site of Huaca de los Reyes in the Moche Valley, Peru. Excavation evidence available since the mid-1970s clearly shows that most of the surface architecture at the site belongs to a single, integrated construction phase and is not the cumulative result of eight construction phases as proposed by Co…
An I-Shaped Ball-Court Form at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Peru
Recent excavations at the Initial Period (1800-900 B. C.) site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the Casma Valley, Peru, have revealed the presence of an I-shaped court that is architecturally very similar to prehistoric I-shaped ball courts commonly found in Mesoamerica. Although it is possible that there is a connection between the I-shaped court at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke and those of Mesoamerica, such a connection appears unlikely given the…
Early civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru
Since 1980 intensive archaeological investigations have been carried out at several early sites, occupied from late preceramic through early ceramic times (4150-2950b.p.), in the Casma Valley, Peru. Preliminary results document increasing societal complexity over time as reflected in the exponential growth of monumental architecture, the acquisition of irrigation agriculture, the rise of two complex polities within the valley and the separation o…
The Impact of Radiocarbon Dates on the Maritime Hypothesis: Response to Quilter
Huaynuná, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru
Recent investigations have revealed evidence for two distinct prehistoric Andean religious traditions at the preceramic site of Huaynuná north of the Casma Valley. One, more private, religious tradition is represented by the presence of a ventilated hearth set in a small enclosure, a feature heretofore found primarily in early highland sites associated with the Kotosh Religious Tradition. The second, more public, religious tradition is represente…
Special Studies: Reply to “The Pre-Chavin Stone Sculpture of Casma and Pacopampa”
In a recent article in the Journal of Field Archaeology (“The Pre-Chavin Stone Sculpture of Casma and Pacopampa,” 16 [1989] 478–485) Richard Burger describes a stone sculpture from Pacopampa that is somewhat similar to a stone that the authors of the present article discovered in 1987 on Huaca A at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the Casma Valley (“An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru,” Journal of Field Archaeo…
News and Short Contributions
Alan H. Simmons, Ann Boulton, Carol Roetzel Butler, Zeidan Kafafi, Gary O. Rollefson, Thomas Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski, John J. Shea, Simon Holdaway, William J. Hunt, Jr., Joseph Brandon, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 107-121
Huaynuna, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru
The Origins and development of the Andean state
Archaeological potato tuber remains from the casma valley of peru
Archaeological manioc (Manihot) from Coastal Peru
An Early Subsistence Exchange System in the Moche Valley, Peru
Technologically, the Initial Period in Peru began with the introduction of pottery and the change from twined to woven textile production. Within the Moche Valley, it was the time when a complex settlement first appeared in the valley interior — a relocation correlated with the beginnings of irrigation agriculture. This critical point in the process of adaptation to irrigation agriculture is explored through an examination of subsistence data fro…
New evidence for ancient cultivation ofCanna edulis in Peru
Reexamining the Critical Preceramic/Ceramic Period Transition: New Data from Coastal Peru
Architecture and Chronology at the Site of Sechín Alto, Casma Valley, Peru
The Initial Period, between 2150 and 1000 cal B.C., was a critical time in the development of civilization within the Andean area of South America. About 2100 cal B.C., within several river valleys along the north-central coast of Peru, sudden changes occurred in subsistence, settlement pattern, and level of cultural complexity. These changes were especially notable within the Casma Valley where labor was mobilized to build large flat-topped pyra…
Ventilated Hearth Structures in the Casma Valley, Peru
Recent investigations in the Casma Valley on the north-central coast of Peru have uncovered a series of circular and rectangular/square structures, each containing a central hearth associated with either four subfloor ventilation shafts or a single open ventilation trough. The structures date to the Late Preceramic period (2500-1800 B. C.) and the Initial period (1800-900 B. C.). All are small and were originally roofed with perishable materials …
The Early Horizon Site of Huaca de los Reyes: Societal Implications
From 1973 to 1974, investigations were carried out at a series of Initial Period and Early Horizon sites known as the Caballo Muerto complex, located in the Moche Valley on the North Coast of Peru. One site, Huaca de los Reyes, contains numerous adobe friezes that are noted both for their wide variety and early date. The amount of labor investment and the degree of architectural planning of the site strongly imply ranked societal divisions of the…
Early civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru
Since 1980 intensive archaeological investigations have been carried out at several early sites, occupied from late preceramic through early ceramic times (4150-2950b.p.), in the Casma Valley, Peru. Preliminary results document increasing societal complexity over time as reflected in the exponential growth of monumental architecture, the acquisition of irrigation agriculture, the rise of two complex polities within the valley and the separation o…
Recent Excavations at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, a Complex Initial Period Site in Peru
The Andean area of South America has long been recognized as a center of emerging civilization. Recent fieldwork at the site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the coastal Casma Valley of Peru has revealed important details of an early complex society which dates to about 1400 B.C. Extensive archaeological excavations have yielded data on a variety of activities vital to the urban center. Public structures such as truly monumental mounds as well as…
Reassessing the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal: Comments on “Hydraulic Engineering Aspects of the Chimu Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal“
The Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal never carried water as a functioning canal due to uplift slope errors made by unsophisticated Chimu engineers. There is no evidence of tectonic uplift directly affecting the Intervalley Canal, either during or after its construction, to create the numerous uphill sections along its entire length. The hydrological calculations of Ortloff et al. (1982) are based on preliminary survey data which do not conform wit…
Las Haldas: An Expanding Initial Period Polity of Coastal Peru
The site of Las Haldas is the largest and most complex early Peruvian coastal site, and its location, overlooking the ocean and 20 km or more from arable land, makes it enigmatic. Building on the work of Peruvian, French, Japanese, and American archaeologists since the 1950s, our excavations within the Casma Valley area document the development of a substantial Initial period (2150-1000 cal BC) polity at Las Haldas that expanded inland as the Sec…
Pre-Hispanic Ridged Fields of the Casma Valley, Peru
ECAUSE of the aridity of the environment, the desert coast of Peru might seem to be an unusual setting for a ridged field system. Ridged fields in lowlands are generally associated with areas of poor drainage or seasonal inundation. Many valleys along the Peruvian coast with irrigation contain agricultural features like canals as well as sunken gardens and flood-control embankments that are associated with a high water table or inundation. 1 In a…
Early Complex Society on the North and Central Peruvian Coast: New Archaeological Discoveries and New Insights
An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru
Excavations in 1987 at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, one of the Earliest planned cities in the New World, uncovered a unique stone carving of a double-bodied snake and a human hand. It is likely that the carving was once part of a small altar associated with a large repository and redistribution center within the site. With an associated radiocarbon date of 1565 ± 70 B.C., the stone carping is the earliest securely-dated stone sculpture in Peru
The Square-Room Unit as an Emblem of Power and Authority within the Initial Period Sechín Alto Polity, Casma Valley, Peru
Some 3,500 years ago, the Sechín Alto Polity built large, precisely planned cities, one of which contained the largest structures in the New World at that time. Such accomplishments reflect strong, enduring leadership, and we propose that the power and leadership role of these leaders was tangibly manifested by a unique, widely used architectural element and by a related symbol within polity iconography. The distinctive architectural form is a fr…
La dinámica del valle de Casma durante el Periodo Inicial
Algunos de los complejos arquitectónicos más grandes en el Nuevo Mundo se construyeron en el valle de Casma durante el Periodo Inicial (2500-1000 a.C.), y se contaron entre los más espectaculares de su época. En este artículo se presentan resultados preliminares de excavaciones realizadas por los autores en esa zona, las cuales proveen de información sobre las interrelaciones entre los dos sitios principales, Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke y el Compl…
The Origins and Development of the Andean State
This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru. Beginning with early chiefdom societies living along the Peruvian coast 2000 years before Christ, the authors trace the growing complexity of Andean states and empires over the next 3000 years. They examine the accomplishments of the ancient Andean…
Excavations at Huaca Herederos Chica, Moche Valley, Peru
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Exploring access control at Taukachi Tardío
Taukachi Tardío is a site of the Casma Culture or Casma Polity that dates to the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000) and Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1000-1470). It functioned as a checkpoint and possible repository alongside a major valley access route from the north into the Sechín Branch of the Casma Valley. Excavations there revealed that visitors were channeled through a narrow corridor and staircase system. A room with six grinding stones docume…
El Desarrollo De La Sociedad Compleja en El Valle De Casma
Las ciudades complejas desarrollaron cerca grupos de montículos monumentales en el valle de Casma durante el Período Inicial o Formativo Temprano, alrededor de los 1500 años a.C. Entre ellos, el sitio más conocido hasta el momento es Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, pero éste es solamente uno entre varios sitios importantes del mencionado valle durante aquella época y la anterior, el precerámico Tardío. Este artículo examina los orígenes de algunas ca…
Una reevaluación del desarrollo de la sociedad compleja durante el Precerámico Tardío en base a los fechados radiocarbónicos y a las investigaciones arqueológicas en el valle de Casma
En muchos aspectos, los sitios precerámicos de Casma son típicos de las ocupaciones precerámicas del resto del Perú. Sin embargo, en los sitios de Tortugas y Huaynuná de Casma se encuentran los inicios de la arquitectura no doméstica o monumental. Además, en el sitio de Huaynuná tambien hay evidencia de una ocupación "acerámica" que coexistía con los primeros asentamientos con cerámica del Periodo Inicial o Formativo Temprano. El reconocimiento d…
Huaca de los Reyes Revisited: Clarification of the Archaeological Evidence
Recent publications have seriously misrepresented architectural and archaeological information concerning the important Initial Period (1800-900 B. C.) site of Huaca de los Reyes in the Moche Valley, Peru. Excavation evidence available since the mid-1970s clearly shows that most of the surface architecture at the site belongs to a single, integrated construction phase and is not the cumulative result of eight construction phases as proposed by Co…
An I-Shaped Ball-Court Form at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Peru
Recent excavations at the Initial Period (1800-900 B. C.) site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the Casma Valley, Peru, have revealed the presence of an I-shaped court that is architecturally very similar to prehistoric I-shaped ball courts commonly found in Mesoamerica. Although it is possible that there is a connection between the I-shaped court at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke and those of Mesoamerica, such a connection appears unlikely given the…
Current Research Inventory
As indicated in the last "Editorial Comment" (LARR 13, number 2), the LASA Executive Council and the LARR Editorial Board have agreed that this should mark the final appearance of the Current Research Inventory. Despite changes introduced in 1974, the compiling and editing of the Inventory has remained a major burden to the staff, and the intervening years have not given satisfactory evidence of its usefulness to our readers. However, the demand …
An Early Subsistence Exchange System in the Moche Valley, Peru
Technologically, the Initial Period in Peru began with the introduction of pottery and the change from twined to woven textile production. Within the Moche Valley, it was the time when a complex settlement first appeared in the valley interior — a relocation correlated with the beginnings of irrigation agriculture. This critical point in the process of adaptation to irrigation agriculture is explored through an examination of subsistence data fro…
The Early Horizon Site of Huaca de los Reyes: Societal Implications
From 1973 to 1974, investigations were carried out at a series of Initial Period and Early Horizon sites known as the Caballo Muerto complex, located in the Moche Valley on the North Coast of Peru. One site, Huaca de los Reyes, contains numerous adobe friezes that are noted both for their wide variety and early date. The amount of labor investment and the degree of architectural planning of the site strongly imply ranked societal divisions of the…
Reassessing the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal: Comments on “Hydraulic Engineering Aspects of the Chimu Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal“
The Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal never carried water as a functioning canal due to uplift slope errors made by unsophisticated Chimu engineers. There is no evidence of tectonic uplift directly affecting the Intervalley Canal, either during or after its construction, to create the numerous uphill sections along its entire length. The hydrological calculations of Ortloff et al. (1982) are based on preliminary survey data which do not conform wit…
Archaeological potato tuber remains from the casma valley of peru
The Caballo Muerto complex and its place in the Andean chronological sequence
The Caballo Muerto complex in the Moche Valley, Peru, is a group of early ceramic mounds, which were constructed sequentially between 1500 and 400 B.C. Recovered ceramics show that most decoration and vessel forms cover the entire time span of the complex. When the Caballo Muerto complex is compared with other early sites in Peru, however, most types of ceramic decoration cannot be correlated with either the Initial Period (1800-900 B.C.) or the …
Pajatambo: An 18th century roadside structure in Peru
Pre-Hispanic Ridged Fields of the Casma Valley, Peru
ECAUSE of the aridity of the environment, the desert coast of Peru might seem to be an unusual setting for a ridged field system. Ridged fields in lowlands are generally associated with areas of poor drainage or seasonal inundation. Many valleys along the Peruvian coast with irrigation contain agricultural features like canals as well as sunken gardens and flood-control embankments that are associated with a high water table or inundation. 1 In a…
New evidence for ancient cultivation ofCanna edulis in Peru
Recent Excavations at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, a Complex Initial Period Site in Peru
The Andean area of South America has long been recognized as a center of emerging civilization. Recent fieldwork at the site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the coastal Casma Valley of Peru has revealed important details of an early complex society which dates to about 1400 B.C. Extensive archaeological excavations have yielded data on a variety of activities vital to the urban center. Public structures such as truly monumental mounds as well as…
Archaeological manioc (Manihot) from Coastal Peru
Cuzco: Aguas y Poder
The Origins and development of the Andean state
An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru
Excavations in 1987 at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, one of the Earliest planned cities in the New World, uncovered a unique stone carving of a double-bodied snake and a human hand. It is likely that the carving was once part of a small altar associated with a large repository and redistribution center within the site. With an associated radiocarbon date of 1565 ± 70 B.C., the stone carping is the earliest securely-dated stone sculpture in Peru
News and Short Contributions
Huaynuná, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru
Recent investigations have revealed evidence for two distinct prehistoric Andean religious traditions at the preceramic site of Huaynuná north of the Casma Valley. One, more private, religious tradition is represented by the presence of a ventilated hearth set in a small enclosure, a feature heretofore found primarily in early highland sites associated with the Kotosh Religious Tradition. The second, more public, religious tradition is represente…
Special Studies: Reply to “The Pre-Chavin Stone Sculpture of Casma and Pacopampa”
In a recent article in the Journal of Field Archaeology (“The Pre-Chavin Stone Sculpture of Casma and Pacopampa,” 16 [1989] 478–485) Richard Burger describes a stone sculpture from Pacopampa that is somewhat similar to a stone that the authors of the present article discovered in 1987 on Huaca A at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the Casma Valley (“An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru,” Journal of Field Archaeo…
News and Short Contributions
Alan H. Simmons, Ann Boulton, Carol Roetzel Butler, Zeidan Kafafi, Gary O. Rollefson, Thomas Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski, John J. Shea, Simon Holdaway, William J. Hunt, Jr., Joseph Brandon, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 107-121
Huaynuna, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru
Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society
Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru
The Origins and Development of the Andean State
This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru. Beginning with early chiefdom societies living along the Peruvian coast 2000 years before Christ, the authors trace the growing complexity of Andean states and empires over the next 3000 years. They examine the accomplishments of the ancient Andean…
Reexamining the Critical Preceramic/Ceramic Period Transition: New Data from Coastal Peru
The Impact of Radiocarbon Dates on the Maritime Hypothesis: Response to Quilter
Early civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru
Since 1980 intensive archaeological investigations have been carried out at several early sites, occupied from late preceramic through early ceramic times (4150-2950b.p.), in the Casma Valley, Peru. Preliminary results document increasing societal complexity over time as reflected in the exponential growth of monumental architecture, the acquisition of irrigation agriculture, the rise of two complex polities within the valley and the separation o…
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