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ID31333
NAMEPozorski
FAMILY NAMEPozorski
SIGNATUREPOZORSKI
AFFILIATIONSCarnegie Museum of Natural History
ORCID0009-0000-5914-1762
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS347
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX12
  • The Mystery of Choromytilus chorus: Factors Affecting the Apparent Demise of a Culturally Important Mollusk Along Western South America

    Open Access•Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnobiology•2025•References: 7

    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

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Ñawpa Pacha•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    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

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological…•2018

  • Early Complex Society on the North and Central Peruvian Coast: New Archaeological Discoveries and New Insights

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Research•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 39

  • Newly Discovered Friezes at the Peruvian Site of Taukachi-Konkán: A Possible Glimpse Into Initial Period Cosmology

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    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

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    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

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Ñawpa Pacha•2012•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    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

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•2011•Cited by: 7•References: 30

    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…

  • Discoveries of Moche Ceramics in the Casma Valley, Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Ñawpa Pacha•2006•References: 4

    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

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2006•Cited by: 12

    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

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2005•Cited by: 19•References: 11

    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…

  • 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

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski•ARTICLE•Boletín de Arqueología PUCP•1999•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    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…

  • La dinámica del valle de Casma durante el Periodo Inicial

    Open Access•Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski•ARTICLE•Boletín de Arqueología PUCP•1998•Cited by: 7

    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

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•1996•Cited by: 19•References: 7

    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 …

  • An I-Shaped Ball-Court Form at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Peru

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•1995•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    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…

  • Agriculture and the Onset of Political Inequality before the Inka . Christine A. Hastorf

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1994

  • Legacy of the Incas. 1989: Legacy of the Incas. 1989

    Open Access•Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1992

  • Legacy of the Incas. 1989

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1992

    Legacy of the Incas. 1989. Produced by Gottfried Kirchner. 43 minutes, color. Purchase $149.00 (video #EM‐2389); rental $75.00 (video) from Films for the Humanities, Inc., Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08540–2053 (800/257–5126

  • Early civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•1992•Cited by: 17•References: 28

    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 Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598‐1701

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1991

    The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598‐1701. Peter T. Bradley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. xiii. 242 pp., notes, index, glossary, maps. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐312‐04061‐ X

  • The Impact of Radiocarbon Dates on the Maritime Hypothesis: Response to Quilter

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1991•Cited by: 2•References: 3

  • The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598-1701:The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598-1701

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1991

  • Huaynuná, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    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”

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    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 et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990

    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

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  • Archaeological potato tuber remains from the casma valley of peru

    Open Access•Donald Ugent, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1982•Cited by: 45•References: 7

  • Prehistoric diet and subsistence of the Moche Valley, Peru

    Pozorski, Shelia G Pozorski•ARTICLE•World Archaeology•1979•Cited by: 37•References: 14

    A study of plant and animal remains from eleven archaeological sites in the Moche Valley, Peru, revealed that three major subsistence patterns prevailed between the time of the first permanent settlements (c. 2500 B.C.) and the arrival of the Spaniards (a.d. 1532). The first permanent settlements were predicated on marine resources and gave way gradually to larger inland polities with irrigation agriculture and a non‐marine animal protein source.…

  • Archaeological manioc (Manihot) from Coastal Peru

    Open Access•Donald Ugent, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1986•Cited by: 28•References: 37

  • An Early Subsistence Exchange System in the Moche Valley, Peru

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1979•Cited by: 25

    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

    Open Access•Donald Ugent, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1984•Cited by: 23•References: 15

  • Reexamining the Critical Preceramic/Ceramic Period Transition: New Data from Coastal Peru

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1990•Cited by: 22•References: 18

  • Architecture and Chronology at the Site of Sechín Alto, Casma Valley, Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2005•Cited by: 19•References: 11

    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

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•1996•Cited by: 19•References: 7

    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 …

  • Early civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•1992•Cited by: 17•References: 28

    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

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1986•Cited by: 16

    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“

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•1982•Cited by: 14•References: 9

    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

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2006•Cited by: 12

    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

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Review•1983•Cited by: 10

    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

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Research•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 39

  • An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1988•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    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

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•2011•Cited by: 7•References: 30

    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

    Open Access•Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski•ARTICLE•Boletín de Arqueología PUCP•1998•Cited by: 7

    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

    Michael E Moseley, Jonathan Haas et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1990•Cited by: 7

    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…

  • Exploring access control at Taukachi Tardío

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Ñawpa Pacha•2012•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    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…

  • 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

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski•ARTICLE•Boletín de Arqueología PUCP•1999•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    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…

  • An I-Shaped Ball-Court Form at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Peru

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•1995•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    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…

  • Newly Discovered Friezes at the Peruvian Site of Taukachi-Konkán: A Possible Glimpse Into Initial Period Cosmology

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Antiquity•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    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…

  • The Impact of Radiocarbon Dates on the Maritime Hypothesis: Response to Quilter

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1991•Cited by: 2•References: 3

  • Special Studies: Reply to “The Pre-Chavin Stone Sculpture of Casma and Pacopampa”

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    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…

  • Recent Excavations at the Initial Period Site of Taukachi-Konkán, Casma Valley, Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Ñawpa Pacha•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    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…

  • Late prehistoric llama remains from the Moche Valley, Peru

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•Annals of Carnegie Museum•1979

    A study focusing on subsistence through time and space within the Moche Valley [ resulted in large collections of llama bone from sites dating to the Early Intermediate j Period, Middle Horizon, and the Late Intermediate Period. Using contextual information available, distributions of specific bone types are evaluated both within and between sites studied. Cultural alteration of bone fragments is examined. Burned bone proportions are correlated w…

  • An Early Subsistence Exchange System in the Moche Valley, Peru

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1979•Cited by: 25

    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…

  • Prehistoric diet and subsistence of the Moche Valley, Peru

    Pozorski, Shelia G Pozorski•ARTICLE•World Archaeology•1979•Cited by: 37•References: 14

    A study of plant and animal remains from eleven archaeological sites in the Moche Valley, Peru, revealed that three major subsistence patterns prevailed between the time of the first permanent settlements (c. 2500 B.C.) and the arrival of the Spaniards (a.d. 1532). The first permanent settlements were predicated on marine resources and gave way gradually to larger inland polities with irrigation agriculture and a non‐marine animal protein source.…

  • Reassessing the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal: Comments on “Hydraulic Engineering Aspects of the Chimu Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal“

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•1982•Cited by: 14•References: 9

    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

    Open Access•Donald Ugent, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1982•Cited by: 45•References: 7

  • Pajatambo: An 18th century roadside structure in Peru

    Colleen M Beck, Eric E Deeds et al.•ARTICLE•Historical Archaeology•1983•Cited by: 1•References: 4

  • Pre-Hispanic Ridged Fields of the Casma Valley, Peru

    Open Access•Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Review•1983•Cited by: 10

    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

    Open Access•Donald Ugent, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1984•Cited by: 23•References: 15

  • Recent Excavations at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, a Complex Initial Period Site in Peru

    Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1986•Cited by: 16

    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

    Open Access•Donald Ugent, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Economic Botany•1986•Cited by: 28•References: 37

  • The Origins and Development of the Andean State

    John V Murra, J A Haas et al.•REVIEW•Hispanic American Historical Review•1988

  • An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma Valley, Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1988•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    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

    Aubrey Cannon, James A Neely et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1988

  • Huaynuná, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast of Peru

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    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”

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    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 et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990

    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

    Thomas Pozorski, Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 1

  • Peruvian Prehistory: An Overview of Pre-Inca and Inca Society

    Izumi Shimada, Richard W Keatinge et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990•Cited by: 1

  • Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru

    Terence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1990

  • The Origins and Development of the Andean State

    Michael E Moseley, Jonathan Haas et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1990•Cited by: 7

    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

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1990•Cited by: 22•References: 18

  • The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598‐1701

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1991

    The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598‐1701. Peter T. Bradley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. xiii. 242 pp., notes, index, glossary, maps. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐312‐04061‐ X

  • The Impact of Radiocarbon Dates on the Maritime Hypothesis: Response to Quilter

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1991•Cited by: 2•References: 3

  • The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598-1701:The Lure of Peru: Maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598-1701

    Open Access•Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1991

  • Legacy of the Incas. 1989: Legacy of the Incas. 1989

    Open Access•Pozorski•ARTICLE•Latin American Anthropology Review•1992

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