Hugo C Ikehara-Tsukayama
Biographic Data
| ID | 2107114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugo C Ikehara-Tsukayama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugo C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ikehara-Tsukayama |
| SIGNATURE | IKEHARA-TSUKAYAMA H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3075-7114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hungry buildings of the ancient Andes
Early monumental architecture in the Central Andes (1400–500 BCE) was striking: large and decorated with impactful images evoking aggression and predation. In this article, I argue that the design and decoration of monumental buildings in ancient coastal Peru may have been seen as acts of creating and activating powerful non-human entities. These animate buildings were designed to become predators that fed on humans during rituals. In the highlan…
Hunters, Warriors, Rulers
Warriorhood was a prominent theme in the imagery of the Peruvian North Coast during the first millennium CE, a time of the emergence of regional polities and the consolidation of social hierarchies. However, these images found in the archaeological record do not precisely match the trajectory of conflict reconstructed by archaeologists and bioanthropologists in the region. Based on the evaluation of recent publications about remains and artifacts…
Moche chronology of ancient Peru
In the last decade Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates has become commonplace for archaeologists grappling with regional chronologies. Here we present Bayesian analysis for radiocarbon dates from Moche cultural contexts from the north coast of Peru with the aim to understand the duration of the phenomenon and to compile all known dates in a single location for future analysis and use. The analysis demonstrates that the long-standing Moche cera…
The Cupisnique-Chavín Religious Tradition in the Andes
Between 1400 and 500 bce, communities of the central Andes gradually adopted a visual culture dominated by images of predation in nature. Fangs became pervasive in images and were incorporated into beings that naturally lacked them, such as humans and birds. Composite beings, articulating parts of different predators, became popular, being depicted in multiple media. This shared visual culture resulted from the expansion, adoption, and local adap…
Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare
Unfinished monumental projects and institutional crisis in the early pre-Columbian Andes
Pots Speak Volumes
This contribution examines feasting strategies in Early Horizon Nepeña (800–200 BC), coastal Ancash, north-central Peru. Through the analysis of volumetric capacities of vessels, we estimate scales of food and drink production at three coeval sites of Caylán, Huambacho, and Samanco. Production scales at those communities are used as proxies for domestic economies, their prosperity and ability to sponsor feasts. We compare and analyze scales of do…
Pucarani
Pucarani
Fortifications are special kinds of public construction projects because they must be erected before enemies attack. Thus, their design and construction reflect the coordination and cooperation of multiple segments of society under time pressure. In this article, we analyze the fortifications at Pucarani, a large hillfort in the Northern Titicaca Basin, to help understand the specifics of how fortifications were built in this region during the La…
Territoriality, Monumentality, and Religion in Formative Period Nepeña, Coastal Ancash
Dossier “La arqueología de la organización de comunidades”
El presente dossier del Boletín de Antropología (BDA) de la Universidad de Antioquía está dedicado a presentar diversas aproximaciones arqueológicas al estudio de la organización de comunidades locales. La elección de este tema, quizás uno de los más relevantes para la arqueología, se basó en tres razones: la primera es que no abundan los volúmenes de carácter comparativo que incluyan casos que por distanciarse espacial, cultural y temporalmente …
The Final Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru
During violent times, the defence of the community can be a powerful motivation for cooperation. This goal can outweigh other needs, and depending on the frequency and scale of the threat, people may even modify their daily habitus. Changes in settlement patterns and infrastructure are manifestations of these behavioural shifts as well as evidence of the modification of the networks of cooperation and the formation of new collectivities. Using th…
Ancient urban life at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, Peru
This article examines the development of urban forms of community organization on the north-central coast of Peru during the 1st millennium b.c. Recent mapping and excavations at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, in the Nepeña Valley, provide insights into the nucleation of human groups at an extensive valley floor complex. The results indicate the establishment of an urban core around cross-cutting avenues, while architectural data point towar…
Feasting with Zea Mays in the Middle and Late Formative North Coast of Peru
This work reports the presence of Zea mays microremains in three feasting episodes performed during the Middle and Late Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru. The remains of the Cerro Blanco de Nepeña feasts may represent a step toward the intensification of Zea mays consumption in ritual contexts, related to changes in the ceramic assemblages, and parallel to the transformation of ritual spaces during the second half of the Formative Perio…
Plaza life and public performance at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, Nepeña Valley, Perú
The following article examines ancient Andean performance at the Early Horizon site of Caylán (800-1 BC), Nepeña Valley, North-Central Coast of Peru. Caylán, a hypothesized early urban polity, was organized around a series of monumental enclosure compounds, each dominated by a plaza. Our research considers public performance from one of Caylán's largest and best preserved plazas, Plaza-A. Results indicate a spatially exclusive, neighborhood-based…
Nuevas evidencias sobre el Periodo Formativo del valle de Nepeña
Esta contribución presenta y discute los resultados preliminares de la primera temporada de investigaciones arqueológicas en el sitio de Caylán, localizado en la parte baja del valle de Nepeña, costa del departamento de Áncash. Entre junio y agosto de 2009 se realizaron trabajos de levantamiento y excavación en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Caylán (PIAC). Este artículo revisa los estudios anteriores con el objetivo de subray…
Kushipampa
Este artículo presenta los datos obtenidos en la primera temporada de investigación del Proyecto Arqueológico Kushipampa. Mediante la comparación con la información disponible de sitios contemporáneos, el autor propone la identificación preliminar de una nueva tradición regional surgida a finales del Periodo Formativo Tardío. Esta tradición se caracterizó por un tipo particular de cerámica y de arquitectura en sitios ubicados principalmente en la…
Festines e integración social en el Periodo Formativo
En este trabajo se presentan nuevas evidencias encontradas en recientes excavaciones del sitio de Cerro Blanco de Nepeña que sugieren que las ceremonias con consumo de comidas y bebidas fueron parte de las actividades realizadas en los centros del Periodo Formativo. Adicionalmente, el análisis del material encontrado permitió definir la organización social detrás de estas y proponer una hipótesis para explicar el interés de la población de este p…
The Final Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru
During violent times, the defence of the community can be a powerful motivation for cooperation. This goal can outweigh other needs, and depending on the frequency and scale of the threat, people may even modify their daily habitus. Changes in settlement patterns and infrastructure are manifestations of these behavioural shifts as well as evidence of the modification of the networks of cooperation and the formation of new collectivities. Using th…
Feasting with Zea Mays in the Middle and Late Formative North Coast of Peru
This work reports the presence of Zea mays microremains in three feasting episodes performed during the Middle and Late Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru. The remains of the Cerro Blanco de Nepeña feasts may represent a step toward the intensification of Zea mays consumption in ritual contexts, related to changes in the ceramic assemblages, and parallel to the transformation of ritual spaces during the second half of the Formative Perio…
Pucarani
Ancient urban life at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, Peru
This article examines the development of urban forms of community organization on the north-central coast of Peru during the 1st millennium b.c. Recent mapping and excavations at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, in the Nepeña Valley, provide insights into the nucleation of human groups at an extensive valley floor complex. The results indicate the establishment of an urban core around cross-cutting avenues, while architectural data point towar…
Pucarani
Fortifications are special kinds of public construction projects because they must be erected before enemies attack. Thus, their design and construction reflect the coordination and cooperation of multiple segments of society under time pressure. In this article, we analyze the fortifications at Pucarani, a large hillfort in the Northern Titicaca Basin, to help understand the specifics of how fortifications were built in this region during the La…
Plaza life and public performance at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, Nepeña Valley, Perú
The following article examines ancient Andean performance at the Early Horizon site of Caylán (800-1 BC), Nepeña Valley, North-Central Coast of Peru. Caylán, a hypothesized early urban polity, was organized around a series of monumental enclosure compounds, each dominated by a plaza. Our research considers public performance from one of Caylán's largest and best preserved plazas, Plaza-A. Results indicate a spatially exclusive, neighborhood-based…
Nuevas evidencias sobre el Periodo Formativo del valle de Nepeña
Esta contribución presenta y discute los resultados preliminares de la primera temporada de investigaciones arqueológicas en el sitio de Caylán, localizado en la parte baja del valle de Nepeña, costa del departamento de Áncash. Entre junio y agosto de 2009 se realizaron trabajos de levantamiento y excavación en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Caylán (PIAC). Este artículo revisa los estudios anteriores con el objetivo de subray…
Kushipampa
Este artículo presenta los datos obtenidos en la primera temporada de investigación del Proyecto Arqueológico Kushipampa. Mediante la comparación con la información disponible de sitios contemporáneos, el autor propone la identificación preliminar de una nueva tradición regional surgida a finales del Periodo Formativo Tardío. Esta tradición se caracterizó por un tipo particular de cerámica y de arquitectura en sitios ubicados principalmente en la…
Unfinished monumental projects and institutional crisis in the early pre-Columbian Andes
Festines e integración social en el Periodo Formativo
En este trabajo se presentan nuevas evidencias encontradas en recientes excavaciones del sitio de Cerro Blanco de Nepeña que sugieren que las ceremonias con consumo de comidas y bebidas fueron parte de las actividades realizadas en los centros del Periodo Formativo. Adicionalmente, el análisis del material encontrado permitió definir la organización social detrás de estas y proponer una hipótesis para explicar el interés de la población de este p…
Festines e integración social en el Periodo Formativo
En este trabajo se presentan nuevas evidencias encontradas en recientes excavaciones del sitio de Cerro Blanco de Nepeña que sugieren que las ceremonias con consumo de comidas y bebidas fueron parte de las actividades realizadas en los centros del Periodo Formativo. Adicionalmente, el análisis del material encontrado permitió definir la organización social detrás de estas y proponer una hipótesis para explicar el interés de la población de este p…
Nuevas evidencias sobre el Periodo Formativo del valle de Nepeña
Esta contribución presenta y discute los resultados preliminares de la primera temporada de investigaciones arqueológicas en el sitio de Caylán, localizado en la parte baja del valle de Nepeña, costa del departamento de Áncash. Entre junio y agosto de 2009 se realizaron trabajos de levantamiento y excavación en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Caylán (PIAC). Este artículo revisa los estudios anteriores con el objetivo de subray…
Kushipampa
Este artículo presenta los datos obtenidos en la primera temporada de investigación del Proyecto Arqueológico Kushipampa. Mediante la comparación con la información disponible de sitios contemporáneos, el autor propone la identificación preliminar de una nueva tradición regional surgida a finales del Periodo Formativo Tardío. Esta tradición se caracterizó por un tipo particular de cerámica y de arquitectura en sitios ubicados principalmente en la…
Plaza life and public performance at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, Nepeña Valley, Perú
The following article examines ancient Andean performance at the Early Horizon site of Caylán (800-1 BC), Nepeña Valley, North-Central Coast of Peru. Caylán, a hypothesized early urban polity, was organized around a series of monumental enclosure compounds, each dominated by a plaza. Our research considers public performance from one of Caylán's largest and best preserved plazas, Plaza-A. Results indicate a spatially exclusive, neighborhood-based…
Feasting with Zea Mays in the Middle and Late Formative North Coast of Peru
This work reports the presence of Zea mays microremains in three feasting episodes performed during the Middle and Late Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru. The remains of the Cerro Blanco de Nepeña feasts may represent a step toward the intensification of Zea mays consumption in ritual contexts, related to changes in the ceramic assemblages, and parallel to the transformation of ritual spaces during the second half of the Formative Perio…
Ancient urban life at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, Peru
This article examines the development of urban forms of community organization on the north-central coast of Peru during the 1st millennium b.c. Recent mapping and excavations at the Early Horizon center of Caylán, in the Nepeña Valley, provide insights into the nucleation of human groups at an extensive valley floor complex. The results indicate the establishment of an urban core around cross-cutting avenues, while architectural data point towar…
The Final Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru
During violent times, the defence of the community can be a powerful motivation for cooperation. This goal can outweigh other needs, and depending on the frequency and scale of the threat, people may even modify their daily habitus. Changes in settlement patterns and infrastructure are manifestations of these behavioural shifts as well as evidence of the modification of the networks of cooperation and the formation of new collectivities. Using th…
Territoriality, Monumentality, and Religion in Formative Period Nepeña, Coastal Ancash
Dossier “La arqueología de la organización de comunidades”
El presente dossier del Boletín de Antropología (BDA) de la Universidad de Antioquía está dedicado a presentar diversas aproximaciones arqueológicas al estudio de la organización de comunidades locales. La elección de este tema, quizás uno de los más relevantes para la arqueología, se basó en tres razones: la primera es que no abundan los volúmenes de carácter comparativo que incluyan casos que por distanciarse espacial, cultural y temporalmente …
Pucarani
Fortifications are special kinds of public construction projects because they must be erected before enemies attack. Thus, their design and construction reflect the coordination and cooperation of multiple segments of society under time pressure. In this article, we analyze the fortifications at Pucarani, a large hillfort in the Northern Titicaca Basin, to help understand the specifics of how fortifications were built in this region during the La…
Pucarani
Pots Speak Volumes
This contribution examines feasting strategies in Early Horizon Nepeña (800–200 BC), coastal Ancash, north-central Peru. Through the analysis of volumetric capacities of vessels, we estimate scales of food and drink production at three coeval sites of Caylán, Huambacho, and Samanco. Production scales at those communities are used as proxies for domestic economies, their prosperity and ability to sponsor feasts. We compare and analyze scales of do…
Unfinished monumental projects and institutional crisis in the early pre-Columbian Andes
Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare
The Cupisnique-Chavín Religious Tradition in the Andes
Between 1400 and 500 bce, communities of the central Andes gradually adopted a visual culture dominated by images of predation in nature. Fangs became pervasive in images and were incorporated into beings that naturally lacked them, such as humans and birds. Composite beings, articulating parts of different predators, became popular, being depicted in multiple media. This shared visual culture resulted from the expansion, adoption, and local adap…
Moche chronology of ancient Peru
In the last decade Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates has become commonplace for archaeologists grappling with regional chronologies. Here we present Bayesian analysis for radiocarbon dates from Moche cultural contexts from the north coast of Peru with the aim to understand the duration of the phenomenon and to compile all known dates in a single location for future analysis and use. The analysis demonstrates that the long-standing Moche cera…
Hungry buildings of the ancient Andes
Early monumental architecture in the Central Andes (1400–500 BCE) was striking: large and decorated with impactful images evoking aggression and predation. In this article, I argue that the design and decoration of monumental buildings in ancient coastal Peru may have been seen as acts of creating and activating powerful non-human entities. These animate buildings were designed to become predators that fed on humans during rituals. In the highlan…
Hunters, Warriors, Rulers
Warriorhood was a prominent theme in the imagery of the Peruvian North Coast during the first millennium CE, a time of the emergence of regional polities and the consolidation of social hierarchies. However, these images found in the archaeological record do not precisely match the trajectory of conflict reconstructed by archaeologists and bioanthropologists in the region. Based on the evaluation of recent publications about remains and artifacts…
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