Quilcapampa, livre ebook

In the ninth century AD, settlers from the heartland of the Wari Empire founded Quilcapampa, a short-lived site overlooking the Sihuas River in southern Peru. The contributors to this volume present excavation and survey data from in and around Quilcapampa that challenge long-held models of both Wari statecraft and the mechanisms that engendered the widespread societal changes of the era.

Quilcapampa and other peripheral Wari settlements have generally been seen as local administrative centers that siphoned resources from conquered regions to the Wari capital. This volume demonstrates that Quilcapampa was likely founded not by Wari officials but by families looking for a new home amid the turmoil caused by increasing Wari political centralization. Botanical, faunal, ceramic, lithic, and other data sets are used to reconstruct lifeways at the site and show how the settlers interacted with others locally and across greater distances.

Featuring extensive illustrations in the print edition and multimedia components in the digital edition, Quilcapampa offers an abundance of archaeological data on the site as well as new theoretical considerations of Wari expansion, laying the foundation for a better understanding of how Andean political economy and social complexity changed over time.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Justin Jennings, Wily Yépez Álvarez, and Stefanie Bautista

1. Re-Envisioning Wari

Justin Jennings

2. Wari in Arequipa

Justin Jennings and David A. Reid

3. Making Quilcapampa

Stephen Berquist, Felipe Gonzalez Macqueen, and Justin Jennings

4. Building Quilcapampa

Luis Manuel González La Rosa, Justin Jennings, Giles Spence-Morrow, and Willy Yépez Álvarez

5. Living at Quilcapampa

Justin Jennings, Branden Rizzuto, and Willy Yépez Álvarez

6. Quilcapampa’s Ceramics

Oscar Huamán López, Justin Jennings, and Willy Yépez Álvarez

7. Quilcapampa’s Stone Tools and Placas Pintadas

Branden Rizzuto and Justin Jennings

8. Plant Use at Quilcapampa

Matthew E. Biwer and Mallory A. Melton

9. Vertebrate and Invertebrate Remains at Quilcapampa

Aleksa Alaica, Patricia Quiñonez Cuzcano and Luis Manuel González La Rosa

10. Conclusions

Justin Jennings, Wily Yépez Álvarez, and Stefanie Bautista

List of Contributors

Index