Social complexity and core-periphery relationships in an Andean Formative ceremonial centre

Domestic occupation at Chavín de Huántar

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ID3247178
AuthorsChristian Mesía-Montenegro (0000-0002-6707-1351, Private University of the North, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume96
Issue388
Pages883-902
Publication date2022-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2022.73
OpenAlexW4283011086
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited27

The site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru, lies at the heart of developing social complexity in the Andean Formative period. The archaeological contexts on the site's immediate periphery are assessed to investigate the nature of occupation, activities practised, and relationships between the area's inhabitants and Chavín's ceremonial centre. The peripheral Wacheqsa sector, which began as a modest, domestic occupation in the second millennium BC, was reconfiguredc. 800 cal BC into a more substantial settlement, perhaps inhabited by craftspeople producing artefacts for the Chavín authorities. The implications of this study are relevant to wider questions regarding relationships between monumental ceremonial centres and their immediate peripheries, and the study of early socio-economic complexity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Formative assessment · Geography · Period (music) · Settlement (finance) · Social complexity · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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