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The land in front of Chan Chan: agrarian expansion, reform, and collapse in the Moche Valley
chan chan: andean desert city • Albuquerque • Published In 2010 • Pages: 25-53
By: Moseley, Michael Edward, Deeds, Eric E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The large canals that were constructed around Chan Chan in the Moche Valley starting in the Initial Period (around 3400 BP) are taken as evidence of political power. At its height, Chan Chan controlled over sixty-six percent of irrigated coastal lands; this despite the fact that Moche is only a medium-sized valley. A model for this impressive concentration is formulated through a review of local developments contrasted with adjacent valleys, concluding that the Moche Valley system provided economic conditions favorable for repeated political ascendancy of the local population, up to the Colonial era city of Trujillo. Descriptions of the canals are given by time period, including construction histories and evidence for episodes of erosion and siltation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Water supply
- Territorial hierarchy
- Production and supply
- 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
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100-524 BP (AD 900-1476)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Trujillo province (Moche Valley), La Libertad, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael E. Moseley and Eric E. Deeds
- For bibliographical references see document 18:[Moseley and Day] (2010, References)
- Reprint of 1982 copy
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80054567
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chanchán (Peru)