article
Was Wari a state?
American antiquity • 43 (3) • Published In 1978 • Pages: 372-389
By: Isbell, William Harris, Schreiber, Katharina Jeanne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Isbell and Schrieber were interested in whether Huari was a state; so they examined Huari settlements in the Ayacucho Valley to determine if the sites were distributed in a size hierarchy with at least three tiers of administrative sites. Isbell and Schrieber looked at two other, large sites near the site of Huari; Viracochapampa and Pikillaqta. They examined the settlement pattern in the Ayacucho Valley and found four levels of site size. This indicates Huari did achieve statehood. However, it is unlikely that population pressure was the determining factor that propelled Huari into statehood.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Public structures
- Settlement patterns
- Territorial hierarchy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huari
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1450 BP-1050 BP (550 A.D.-950 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Andes; Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- William H. Isbell and Katharina J. Schreiber
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-389)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities--Peru