Chimú–Inka Segmented Agricultural Fields in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru: Implications for State-Level Resource Management

In this study, we analyze extensive segmented and standardized agricultural fields in the marginally productive terrain of the Pampa de Guereque in the Jequetepeque Valley on the north coast of Peru. Although portions of the associated canal system were constructed continuously from late Formative to Chimú times, the segmented fields date to the late Chimú–Inka period and were only partially finished, apparently never fully used, and ultimately abandoned. We provide description of field plots and irrigation canals and discuss the implications of state-level construction and labor management of the fields, as well as the probable reasons for their abandonment. Se analizan extensos campos agrícolas segmentados y estandarizados ubicados en terrenos rocosos y marginalmente productivos en Pampa de Guereque, valle de Jequetepeque, costa norte del Perú. Aunque una porción del sistema de canales se construyó continuamente desde tiempos del Formativo tardío hasta época Chimú, los campos datan del período Chimú-Inka tardía y fueron parcialmente terminados, y aparentemente nunca se usadas completamente y finalmente abandonados. Se presenta una descripción detallada de los campo de cultivo y los canales de riego. Se discuten las implicaciones de la construcción a nivel estatal y la gestión laboral de los campos, así como las probables razones del su abandono.</p

Perspectives on Andean Prehistory and Protohistory: Papers from the Third Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory

This volume represents eight of the eighteen papers presented at the Third Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on October 27 and 28, 1984. It also includes a paper presented at the Second NCAAE held at the American Museum of Natural History on November 19-20, 1983. The papers include: Wandering Shellfish: New Insights from Southeastern Coastal Ecuador by Patricia Netherly, Late Prehistoric Terracing at Chijra in the Collca Valley, Peru: Preliminary Report I by Michael A. Malpass, The Topara Tradition: An Overview by Dwight T. Wallace, The Peruvian North Central Coast During the Early Intermediate Period: An Emerging Perspective by Richard E. Daggett, A Sequence of Monumental Architecture from Huamanchuco by John R. Topic, Duality in Public Architecture in the Upper Zena Valley by Patricia J. Netherly and Tom D. Dillehay, Piruru: A Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Botany of a Highland Andean Site by Lawrence Kaplan and Elisabeth Bonnier, Analysis of Organic Remains from Huamachuco Qollqas by Coreen E. Chiswell, Aspects of Casting Practice in Prehispanic Peru by Stuart V. Arnold, and Representations of the Cosmos: A Comparison of the Church of San Cristobal de Pampachiri with the Coricancha Drawing of Santacruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua by Monica Barnes.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past_special/1000/thumbnail.jp

La Frontera del Estado Inca

International Congress of Americanists (45th, 1985 : Bogotá, Colombia) [...ponencias en la sesión del mismo nombre en la 45 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, realizado en Bogotá, Colombia en 1985

The Nanchoc tradition: The beginnings of Andean civilization

Seven thousand years ago, in northern Peru, the processing of lime, most likely for use with coca, launched a community toward social complexity

Localization and possible social aggregation in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene on the north coast of Perú

Early circular living structures made of rough field stone, radiocarbon dated between 10,800 and 8300 BP, and probably affiliated with the Paiján culture on the north coast of Perú are discussed in terms of possible proto-household economies that are localized and socially aggregated in compressed environmental zones along the lower western slopes of the Andes. The technological, settlement, and economic data recovered from several sites in the Zaña and Jequetepeque Valleys are discussed briefly. Their broader implications are presented as well. © 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd

Early Holocene coca chewing in northern Peru

Chewing coca in South America began by at least 8000 cal BP: our authors found and identified coca leaves of that date in house floors in the Nanchoc Valley, Peru. There were also pieces of calcite - which is used by chewers to bring out the alkaloids from the leaves. Excavation and chemical analysis at a group of neighbouring sites suggests that specialists were beginning to extract and supply lime or calcite, and by association coca, as a community activity at about the same time as systematic farming was taking off in the region