Donna J Nash
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna J Nash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna J |
| FAMILY NAME | Nash |
| SIGNATURE | NASH D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6890-6683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Refuse or Ritual Deposit? The Complexity of Wari Household Archaeology
The excavation of residential areas is a growing focus of research in Andean archaeology. Studies reveal that interpreting household remains from some prehispanic societies can be complex because of the nature of abandonment ritual, which may involve burnt offerings, the placement of valuables on floors, or the purposeful destruction of ceramic vessels that are distributed in patterned ways. The goods that constitute these offering practices can …
Imperial Policies and Well-Being in the Prehistoric Andes
At European contact, the Inca dominated the Andes. Some colonial commentators described them as benevolent because of their policies to prevent starvation among cooperative subjects; however, this does not mean that there were no ill effects to the well-being of conquered groups. Archaeological research focused on well-being offers new avenues through which to understand the impacts of expansive polities on subject populations. In this article, I…
Home, hearth, and housekeeping: Alternative methods for detecting migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru
Dreg Deposits and Domestic Beer Production: Assessing the Ubiquity of Chicha Production in the Wari Empire
Chicha (a fermented beverage) was an essential element of the political economy for some prehistoric Andean societies. In this article we outline the archaeological correlates of chicha production for the Wari Empire (ca. 600–1100 CE) using excavated evidence from the provincial center of Cerro Baúl and results from informant guided experimentation, which involved making chicha with maize (Zea mays), with drupes from the Peruvian pepper tree (Sch…
The colors of the empire: Assessing techno-decorative innovations in local, hybrid and intrusive ceramic pigments within the Wari interaction spheres, Peru
Crafting a colony: Geochemical insights into 1000 years of state craft in the Moquegua Valley, Peru
Crafting cosmopolitanism: Ceramic production and exchange during Wari imperialism (600–1000 CE)
Wari Imperial Motives: The Variety of Decorated Ceramics at Cerro Baúl
Cerro Baúl, a site perched on a mountain in the Moquegua Valley (Peru), was once the southernmost outpost of the Wari Empire (600-1000 C.E.). Over the last three decades, the Proyecto Arqueológico Cerro Baúl (PACB) has excavated 62 nearly complete decorated ceramics in the central sectors of the site, ranging from tumblers to figurines. This limited but diverse assemblage demonstrates the forms and motifs employed by elite agents during ritual pr…
Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange During Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)
Considering Imperial Complexity in Prehistory: A Polyethnic Wari Enclave in Moquegua, Peru
Wari is thought by many to be the first Andean Empire (ca. 600–1000 AD); however, the means of expansion, the areas controlled, the strength of the polity, and the nature of Wari institutions remain largely contested. In general, models describing the Wari polity are simplistic and do not exploit sophisticated approaches developed by historical archaeologists. Wari expansion into the Moquegua Valley, Peru, was originally interpreted as an intrusi…
Modelización de los tipos de colonialismo wari a escala regional y residencial
El estado wari se expandió durante el siglo VII de nuestra era para colonizar una amplia área de los Andes e incorporar a varios grupos étnicos. Las relaciones establecidas entre los colonos patrocinados por el estado wari y los pueblos indígenas de estos nuevos territorios fueron diferentes por muchas razones. En este artículo, considero el grado de centralización política como un factor clave que marcó el impacto de la expansión wari a largo pl…
Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru
Craft Production as an Empowering Strategy in an Emerging Empire
The activities associated with palaces provide clues to understanding the strategies leaders in prehistoric polities used to accrue power. Controlling craft specialists who make prestige goods is one such tactic. Many models presume preciosities were distributed to build alliances or for exchange; however, some objects may be imbued with sacred power. These singular goods would have a different distribution than prestige goods. The relations of p…
Plotting abandonment: Excavating a ritual deposit at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl
Pre-Columbian Studies of Ritual and Religion: Place, Power, Practice, and Ontology
This essay reviews the following works:Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place. By Traci Ardren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 210. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780826355799
Religious Ritual and Wari State Expansion
El establecimiento de relaciones de poder a través del uso del espacio residencial en la provincia Wari de Moquegua
El imperio wari fue un Estado expansivo que incorporó a diversos grupos de los Andes peruanos desde 600 d. C. hasta 1000 d. C. En general, la elite estatal wari estableció relaciones asimétricas con algunas organizaciones políticas regionales, pero en algunos casos reemplazó a los líderes locales por funcionarios estatales. Por otro lado, este poderoso imperio construyó centros provinciales que fueron lugares donde los funcionarios del Estado int…
The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas Up to 1615
Book Review| January 01 2012 The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas Up to 1615 The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615. By de Ayala, Felipe Guaman Poma. Translated and edited by Hamilton, Roland. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. xxiv + 363 pp., foreword, introduction, notes on translation, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.…
Fiestas Y La Economía Política Wari en Moquegua, Perú
Las fiestas se han considerado componentes importantes en las actividades polticas de los Estados arcaicos. En los sitios Wari de Cerro Bal y Cerro Meja, ubicados en el valle de Moquegua en la periferia sur del Estado, se han encontrado varios lugares de reunin y reas de preparacin para fiestas. Se registraron evidencias de preparacin de elaboradas comidas para rituales importantes, encuentros sociales y establecer lazos polticos, jerarquas y con…
Wari Political Organization: The Southern Periphery
Household Archaeology in the Andes
Sighting theapu: A GIS analysis of Wari imperialism and the worship of mountain peaks
In the Andes, prominent mountains are revered as earthly spirits that protect, but may also punish, their human constituents. These apu were often linked to distant ancestors and are considered the most important local deities. During the phase of the earliest highland Andean expansive states (ad 600–1000), the Wari and Tiwanaku utilized mountain worship as a means of establishing hegemony over local peoples who considered these mountains as plac…
Burning down the brewery: Establishing and evacuating an ancient imperial colony at Cerro Baúl, Peru
Before the Inca reigned, two empires held sway over the central Andes from anno Domini 600 to 1000: the Wari empire to the north ruled much of Peru, and Tiwanaku to the south reigned in Bolivia. Face-to-face contact came when both colonized the Moquegua Valley sierra in southern Peru. The state-sponsored Wari incursion, described here, entailed large-scale agrarian reclamation to sustain the occupation of two hills and the adjacent high mesa of C…
Los encuentros y las bases para la administración política Wari
En el presente trabajo se analiza el rol de los encuentros y reuniones de diversa escala en la colonia wari de Moquegua, Perú (600-1000d.C.). El papel de los festines cambió sustancialmente con la expansión de las entidades políticas Wari y Tiwanaku, e involucró múltiples lugares y numerosos tipos de congregaciones. La evidencia resulta de excavaciones en dos sitios principales, Cerro Baúl y Cerro Mejía, y se comparan los contextos de festines en…
El Señorío de Chiribaya en la Costa Sur del Perú . Maria Cecilia Lozada , Jane E. Buikstra
Sighting theapu: A GIS analysis of Wari imperialism and the worship of mountain peaks
In the Andes, prominent mountains are revered as earthly spirits that protect, but may also punish, their human constituents. These apu were often linked to distant ancestors and are considered the most important local deities. During the phase of the earliest highland Andean expansive states (ad 600–1000), the Wari and Tiwanaku utilized mountain worship as a means of establishing hegemony over local peoples who considered these mountains as plac…
Household Archaeology in the Andes
Architecture and Power on the Wari-Tiwanaku Frontier
The Wari Empire expanded and maintained control over many areas in the Andes for nearly four centuries (600–1000 C.E.). This chapter documents changes in power relations and political institutions on the Wari–Tiwanaku frontier. The settlements of both polities are well documented along their border in the Moquegua Valley of southern Peru where Wari controlled their provincial settlements from the lofty heights of Cerro Baul. We assess the changin…
Plotting abandonment: Excavating a ritual deposit at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl
Considering Imperial Complexity in Prehistory: A Polyethnic Wari Enclave in Moquegua, Peru
Wari is thought by many to be the first Andean Empire (ca. 600–1000 AD); however, the means of expansion, the areas controlled, the strength of the polity, and the nature of Wari institutions remain largely contested. In general, models describing the Wari polity are simplistic and do not exploit sophisticated approaches developed by historical archaeologists. Wari expansion into the Moquegua Valley, Peru, was originally interpreted as an intrusi…
Craft Production as an Empowering Strategy in an Emerging Empire
The activities associated with palaces provide clues to understanding the strategies leaders in prehistoric polities used to accrue power. Controlling craft specialists who make prestige goods is one such tactic. Many models presume preciosities were distributed to build alliances or for exchange; however, some objects may be imbued with sacred power. These singular goods would have a different distribution than prestige goods. The relations of p…
Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru
Cerro Baúl: Un enclave wari en interacción con Tiwanaku
La expansión wari hacia el extremo sur del Perú es un fenómeno cuyo estudio ha comenzado en los últimos 20 años, con el descubrimiento de un gran complejo arquitectónico en Cerro Baúl. Las excavaciones realizadas en los últimos tres años han revelado que Cerro Baúl, más que una fortaleza, fue un centro político y religioso wari muy importante, establecido como enclave en una región donde resulta evidente una directa interacción con Tiwanaku, el e…
Dreg Deposits and Domestic Beer Production: Assessing the Ubiquity of Chicha Production in the Wari Empire
Chicha (a fermented beverage) was an essential element of the political economy for some prehistoric Andean societies. In this article we outline the archaeological correlates of chicha production for the Wari Empire (ca. 600–1100 CE) using excavated evidence from the provincial center of Cerro Baúl and results from informant guided experimentation, which involved making chicha with maize (Zea mays), with drupes from the Peruvian pepper tree (Sch…
Refuse or Ritual Deposit? The Complexity of Wari Household Archaeology
The excavation of residential areas is a growing focus of research in Andean archaeology. Studies reveal that interpreting household remains from some prehispanic societies can be complex because of the nature of abandonment ritual, which may involve burnt offerings, the placement of valuables on floors, or the purposeful destruction of ceramic vessels that are distributed in patterned ways. The goods that constitute these offering practices can …
Crafting a colony: Geochemical insights into 1000 years of state craft in the Moquegua Valley, Peru
Crafting cosmopolitanism: Ceramic production and exchange during Wari imperialism (600–1000 CE)
Modelización de los tipos de colonialismo wari a escala regional y residencial
El estado wari se expandió durante el siglo VII de nuestra era para colonizar una amplia área de los Andes e incorporar a varios grupos étnicos. Las relaciones establecidas entre los colonos patrocinados por el estado wari y los pueblos indígenas de estos nuevos territorios fueron diferentes por muchas razones. En este artículo, considero el grado de centralización política como un factor clave que marcó el impacto de la expansión wari a largo pl…
Los encuentros y las bases para la administración política Wari
En el presente trabajo se analiza el rol de los encuentros y reuniones de diversa escala en la colonia wari de Moquegua, Perú (600-1000d.C.). El papel de los festines cambió sustancialmente con la expansión de las entidades políticas Wari y Tiwanaku, e involucró múltiples lugares y numerosos tipos de congregaciones. La evidencia resulta de excavaciones en dos sitios principales, Cerro Baúl y Cerro Mejía, y se comparan los contextos de festines en…
Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange During Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)
Pre-Columbian Studies of Ritual and Religion: Place, Power, Practice, and Ontology
This essay reviews the following works:Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place. By Traci Ardren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 210. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780826355799
The colors of the empire: Assessing techno-decorative innovations in local, hybrid and intrusive ceramic pigments within the Wari interaction spheres, Peru
Wari Imperial Motives: The Variety of Decorated Ceramics at Cerro Baúl
Cerro Baúl, a site perched on a mountain in the Moquegua Valley (Peru), was once the southernmost outpost of the Wari Empire (600-1000 C.E.). Over the last three decades, the Proyecto Arqueológico Cerro Baúl (PACB) has excavated 62 nearly complete decorated ceramics in the central sectors of the site, ranging from tumblers to figurines. This limited but diverse assemblage demonstrates the forms and motifs employed by elite agents during ritual pr…
Fiestas Y La Economía Política Wari en Moquegua, Perú
Las fiestas se han considerado componentes importantes en las actividades polticas de los Estados arcaicos. En los sitios Wari de Cerro Bal y Cerro Meja, ubicados en el valle de Moquegua en la periferia sur del Estado, se han encontrado varios lugares de reunin y reas de preparacin para fiestas. Se registraron evidencias de preparacin de elaboradas comidas para rituales importantes, encuentros sociales y establecer lazos polticos, jerarquas y con…
Cerro Baúl: Un enclave wari en interacción con Tiwanaku
La expansión wari hacia el extremo sur del Perú es un fenómeno cuyo estudio ha comenzado en los últimos 20 años, con el descubrimiento de un gran complejo arquitectónico en Cerro Baúl. Las excavaciones realizadas en los últimos tres años han revelado que Cerro Baúl, más que una fortaleza, fue un centro político y religioso wari muy importante, establecido como enclave en una región donde resulta evidente una directa interacción con Tiwanaku, el e…
El Señorío de Chiribaya en la Costa Sur del Perú . Maria Cecilia Lozada , Jane E. Buikstra
Architecture and Power on the Wari-Tiwanaku Frontier
The Wari Empire expanded and maintained control over many areas in the Andes for nearly four centuries (600–1000 C.E.). This chapter documents changes in power relations and political institutions on the Wari–Tiwanaku frontier. The settlements of both polities are well documented along their border in the Moquegua Valley of southern Peru where Wari controlled their provincial settlements from the lofty heights of Cerro Baul. We assess the changin…
Burning down the brewery: Establishing and evacuating an ancient imperial colony at Cerro Baúl, Peru
Before the Inca reigned, two empires held sway over the central Andes from anno Domini 600 to 1000: the Wari empire to the north ruled much of Peru, and Tiwanaku to the south reigned in Bolivia. Face-to-face contact came when both colonized the Moquegua Valley sierra in southern Peru. The state-sponsored Wari incursion, described here, entailed large-scale agrarian reclamation to sustain the occupation of two hills and the adjacent high mesa of C…
Los encuentros y las bases para la administración política Wari
En el presente trabajo se analiza el rol de los encuentros y reuniones de diversa escala en la colonia wari de Moquegua, Perú (600-1000d.C.). El papel de los festines cambió sustancialmente con la expansión de las entidades políticas Wari y Tiwanaku, e involucró múltiples lugares y numerosos tipos de congregaciones. La evidencia resulta de excavaciones en dos sitios principales, Cerro Baúl y Cerro Mejía, y se comparan los contextos de festines en…
Sighting theapu: A GIS analysis of Wari imperialism and the worship of mountain peaks
In the Andes, prominent mountains are revered as earthly spirits that protect, but may also punish, their human constituents. These apu were often linked to distant ancestors and are considered the most important local deities. During the phase of the earliest highland Andean expansive states (ad 600–1000), the Wari and Tiwanaku utilized mountain worship as a means of establishing hegemony over local peoples who considered these mountains as plac…
Wari Political Organization: The Southern Periphery
Household Archaeology in the Andes
Fiestas Y La Economía Política Wari en Moquegua, Perú
Las fiestas se han considerado componentes importantes en las actividades polticas de los Estados arcaicos. En los sitios Wari de Cerro Bal y Cerro Meja, ubicados en el valle de Moquegua en la periferia sur del Estado, se han encontrado varios lugares de reunin y reas de preparacin para fiestas. Se registraron evidencias de preparacin de elaboradas comidas para rituales importantes, encuentros sociales y establecer lazos polticos, jerarquas y con…
El establecimiento de relaciones de poder a través del uso del espacio residencial en la provincia Wari de Moquegua
El imperio wari fue un Estado expansivo que incorporó a diversos grupos de los Andes peruanos desde 600 d. C. hasta 1000 d. C. En general, la elite estatal wari estableció relaciones asimétricas con algunas organizaciones políticas regionales, pero en algunos casos reemplazó a los líderes locales por funcionarios estatales. Por otro lado, este poderoso imperio construyó centros provinciales que fueron lugares donde los funcionarios del Estado int…
The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas Up to 1615
Book Review| January 01 2012 The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas Up to 1615 The First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615. By de Ayala, Felipe Guaman Poma. Translated and edited by Hamilton, Roland. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. xxiv + 363 pp., foreword, introduction, notes on translation, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. $65.…
Religious Ritual and Wari State Expansion
Pre-Columbian Studies of Ritual and Religion: Place, Power, Practice, and Ontology
This essay reviews the following works:Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place. By Traci Ardren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 210. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780826355799
Plotting abandonment: Excavating a ritual deposit at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl
Craft Production as an Empowering Strategy in an Emerging Empire
The activities associated with palaces provide clues to understanding the strategies leaders in prehistoric polities used to accrue power. Controlling craft specialists who make prestige goods is one such tactic. Many models presume preciosities were distributed to build alliances or for exchange; however, some objects may be imbued with sacred power. These singular goods would have a different distribution than prestige goods. The relations of p…
Modelización de los tipos de colonialismo wari a escala regional y residencial
El estado wari se expandió durante el siglo VII de nuestra era para colonizar una amplia área de los Andes e incorporar a varios grupos étnicos. Las relaciones establecidas entre los colonos patrocinados por el estado wari y los pueblos indígenas de estos nuevos territorios fueron diferentes por muchas razones. En este artículo, considero el grado de centralización política como un factor clave que marcó el impacto de la expansión wari a largo pl…
Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru
Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange During Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)
Considering Imperial Complexity in Prehistory: A Polyethnic Wari Enclave in Moquegua, Peru
Wari is thought by many to be the first Andean Empire (ca. 600–1000 AD); however, the means of expansion, the areas controlled, the strength of the polity, and the nature of Wari institutions remain largely contested. In general, models describing the Wari polity are simplistic and do not exploit sophisticated approaches developed by historical archaeologists. Wari expansion into the Moquegua Valley, Peru, was originally interpreted as an intrusi…
The colors of the empire: Assessing techno-decorative innovations in local, hybrid and intrusive ceramic pigments within the Wari interaction spheres, Peru
Crafting a colony: Geochemical insights into 1000 years of state craft in the Moquegua Valley, Peru
Crafting cosmopolitanism: Ceramic production and exchange during Wari imperialism (600–1000 CE)
Wari Imperial Motives: The Variety of Decorated Ceramics at Cerro Baúl
Cerro Baúl, a site perched on a mountain in the Moquegua Valley (Peru), was once the southernmost outpost of the Wari Empire (600-1000 C.E.). Over the last three decades, the Proyecto Arqueológico Cerro Baúl (PACB) has excavated 62 nearly complete decorated ceramics in the central sectors of the site, ranging from tumblers to figurines. This limited but diverse assemblage demonstrates the forms and motifs employed by elite agents during ritual pr…
Dreg Deposits and Domestic Beer Production: Assessing the Ubiquity of Chicha Production in the Wari Empire
Chicha (a fermented beverage) was an essential element of the political economy for some prehistoric Andean societies. In this article we outline the archaeological correlates of chicha production for the Wari Empire (ca. 600–1100 CE) using excavated evidence from the provincial center of Cerro Baúl and results from informant guided experimentation, which involved making chicha with maize (Zea mays), with drupes from the Peruvian pepper tree (Sch…
Refuse or Ritual Deposit? The Complexity of Wari Household Archaeology
The excavation of residential areas is a growing focus of research in Andean archaeology. Studies reveal that interpreting household remains from some prehispanic societies can be complex because of the nature of abandonment ritual, which may involve burnt offerings, the placement of valuables on floors, or the purposeful destruction of ceramic vessels that are distributed in patterned ways. The goods that constitute these offering practices can …
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