essay
The southern frontier of the Chimu empire
northern dynasties : kingship and statecraft in chimor: a symposium at dumbarton oaks, 12th and 13th october 1985 • Washington, D.C. • Published In 1990 • Pages: 195-226
By: Mackey, Carol J., Klymyshyn, Alexandra M. Ulana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Data from survey and excavations in the Casma Valley provide evidence of the Chimu Empire’s expansion south of the Santa Valley. This is compared with the northern territorial expansion to shed light on the "general principles of Chimu policies of expansion and administration" (page 195). The discussion includes evidence for settlement patterns, settlement hierarchy, the chronology of Chimu occupation (especially at Manchan), actual occupation and not just influence, employment of indigenous nobility for governing conquered territory, ranking of the indigenous nobility compared to those at the Moche Valley capital of Chan Chan, and the economic centralization of the empire there—including the amount of labor involved to build the city, its storage capacity, and the quality and variety of craft production there. It is proposed that lower level administrative centers were situated for management of irrigation canals and agricultural fields. Although it has been claimed that the empire extended from Tumbes to just north of Lima, consolidation appears to have taken place only from the Lambayeque region in the north to the Casma Valley in the south, where administrative centers can be found.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Territorial hierarchy
- Provinces
- Classes
- Ethnic stratification
- Production and supply
- Cultural participation
- 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
- 1979-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100-530 BP (AD 900-1470)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- coastal La Libertad and Ancash regions (north coast), Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Carol J. Mackey, A. M. Ulana Klymyshyn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-226)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89023336
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chimu Indians--Politics and government--Congresses
- Chimu Indians--Antiquities--Congresses
- Chan Chan Site (Peru)--Congresses
- Peru--Antiquities--Congresses