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Urban settlement systems and rural sustaining communities: an example from Chan Chan's hinterland
Journal of field archaeology • 2 (3) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 215-227
By: Keatinge, Richard W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author excavated at the site of Cerro la Virgen, a rural village of agglutinated rooms in the Moche Valley near the Chimu city of Chan Chan. The site is bisected by the coastal highway, and there are agricultural fields, a canal, and a cemetery nearby. Excavations took place on the road, and within some of the rooms, the looted cemetery, and a midden. Findings indicate a diet based on agricultural products, along with fish, shellfish, llama, and guinea pig. Numerous wood, stone, and bone tools were found in the rooms along with numerous storage pits and sunken jars. Several lines of evidence suggest this rural village was responsible for farming the nearby fields. The village is nucleated and the fields are formally laid out, suggesting they were part of a state-controlled agricultural enterprise.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Urban and rural life
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Highways and bridges
- Diet
- Production and supply
- State enterprise
- Government enterprises
- Community structure
- General tools
- Tillage
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chimu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969, 1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1000-524 BP (AD 1000-1476)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cerro la Virgen, Huanchaco, Trujillo province (Moche Valley), La Libertad, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard W. Keatinge
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75641025
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chimu