essay
The Huaca La Florida, Rimac Valley, Peru
early ceremonial architecture in the andes : a conference at dumbarton oaks, 8th to 10th october 1982 • Washington, D.C. • Published In 1985 • Pages: 59-69
By: Patterson, Thomas C. (Thomas Carl).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Patterson describes the Huaca La Florida monument in the Rimac Valley of the central coast of Peru, detailing its construction, the number man-days required to build it, and its reconstruction. He lists some of the food remains, reports radiocarbon dates, and briefly describes some of the ceramics and other artifacts retrieved.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious and educational structures
- Settlement patterns
- Ceramic technology
- Labor and leisure
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Coastal Andean Early Formative
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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
- essay
- 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; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1963, 1965-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4150-3750 BP (2150-1750 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Huaca La Florida, Rimac district, Lima, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas C. Patterson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84010291
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Andes Region--Antiquities