essay
Subsistence systems in the Chimú state
chan chan: andean desert city • Albuquerque • Published In 2010 • Pages: 177-196
By: Pozorski, Shelia Griffis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Food remains from ten sites in the Moche Valley are analyzed in order to reconstruct changes in subsistence from the Cotton Preceramic to the end of the Late Horizon (only the data pertaining to the Chimu are topic indexed). Industrial plants and wild species are included. Subsistence patterns at Chan Chan and three other communities are compared: Cerro la Virgen and Choroval, farming communities close to the ocean, and Caracoles, likely a community corvée laborers. In addition to diet, there is a discussion of the economic organization of the Chimu state, with redistribution of food and services between communities, and territorial expansion into new resource zones as evidenced by the introduction of new species of fruit.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Nutrition
- Production and supply
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Sociocultural trends
- Miscellaneous government activities
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-524 BP (AD 200-1476)
- 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
- Shelia G. Pozorski
- 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)