essay
Temple, palais ou entrepot?: la centralisation du pouvoir dans le Pérou préhistorique
Ville et pouvoir en Amérique: les formes de l'autorité, sous la direction de Jérome Monnet • Paris • Published In 1999 • Pages: 87-110
By: Pozorski, Thomas George, Pozorski, Shelia Griffis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors assess the premise that all Initial period monumental structures in Peru were huacas or sacred places. Their fieldwork in the Casma Valley on the north coast suggests otherwise and they propose the re-examination of other platform mound complexes for secular functions or associations. For the site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeque they find while Moxeque was a religious structure, Huaca A was used for storage and management of surplus goods, and 110 intermediate-size platforms were used for administration. Additional fieldwork at Sechín Alto focused on the Pyramid of the Columns in the Taukachi-Konkan complex, interpreted as a palace or elite residence with rooms for both public and private use.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Public structures
- Religious and educational structures
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Warehousing
- Administrative agencies
- 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
- 1992-1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3600-3100 BP (1600-1100 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Casma Valley, Peru, Casma district, Casma, Ancash, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas et Shelia Pozorski
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110)
- Chapitre 5
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99459331
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Andes Region--Antiquities