essay
Storage and labor service: a production and management design for the Andean area
chan chan: andean desert city • Albuquerque • Published In 2010 • Pages: 333-349
By: Day, Kent C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
It is proposed that certain structures and construction techniques at the late Moche site of Pampa Grande and the Chimu center of Chan Chan point to similarities with Inka storage facilities and use of labor service. Chimu field and irrigation systems and settlement patterns are also considered. Storage facilities are the most numerous type of adobe structure at Chan Chan. These are identified as storerooms because of their similarity to Inka structures. They probably stored high valued goods as they are isolated within high-walled [i]ciudadelas[/i] with winding corridors. Such features indicate the Chimu may have been concerned with theft. Also associated with storerooms at Chan Chan are U-shaped structures. Labor service can be assumed due to the quantity of construction materials used at Chan Chan and the manner in which [i]ciudadela[/i] walls were built: in sections that probably represent separate labor units. In addition, north of Chan Chan there are formally arranged agricultural fields, with few residential settlements in the area, that were probably lands of the nobility. The storerooms hint at another form of labor service, in the manufacture of goods to stock them. How such goods affected the general economy is considered.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Warehousing
- Public structures
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Labor relations
- 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
- 1500-500 BP (AD 500-1500)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- north coast Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kent C. Day
- 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)