essay
Structure and function at the planned site of Azangaro: cautionary notes for the model of Huari as a centralized secular state
huari administrative structure : prehistoric monumental architecture and state government • Washington, D.C. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 165-197
By: Anders, Martha B., d. 1990.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Anders examines Azangaro architecture for insights into Huari administrative character and organization. Azangaro is a planned Huari installation in the Huanta Valley, 15 km northwest of Huari. The Huanta Valley is considered the breadbasket of the Ayachuco Basin and an important crossroads. Anders identifies two architectural styles, regular and irregular. The regular, or planned, installation covers 7.8 hectares and is divided into three sections. The North Sector is typically Huari with long, narrow rooms, framing open courtyards. The Central Sector contains forty rows of narrow, conjoined rooms with corridors in between, which Anders infers are quarters for MIT'A laborers. The South Sector has regular structures similar to those in the North Sector and irregular structures. The irregular structures include two layouts: multiple rooms facing a patio (Complex III) and single room structures (Complexes I and II), which Anders believes are the residences of two local lords. She concludes that Azangaro is a calendrical/ceremonial center built to legitimize state authority and reaffirm the reciprocal relationship between the center and region.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Masonry
- Architecture
- Cosmology
- 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
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 700-900 (Middle Horizon Epoch 2)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Azangaro, Ayacucho Basin , Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Martha B. Anders
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89023354
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities--Peru