The household thru time : the paracas to nasca transition at Uchuchuma, Aja Valley, Peru
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on the emergence of the prehispanic Nasca (AD 1-- 700) culture during the transition from the Late Terminal Formative (200 BC -- AD 1) to the Early Intermediate Period (AD 1 -- 700) in the Rio Grande de Nasca Region, Peru. The Paracas culture (800-100 BC), a federation of various ethnic groups from the Ica region that shared pottery, textile, and funerary practices, migrated to the Nasca region sometime during the Late Terminal Formative. Andean archaeologists suggest that Paracas groups living in the Nasca region came together to form a centralized society and ethnicity -- Nasca -- that shared a common religion and pottery style. To better understand the nature of this transition from Paracas to Nasca from a household perspective, my project systematically compared both Paracas and Nasca domestic practices (e.g. ceramic production, stone tool making and food consumption) using data from a residential archaeological site called Uchuchuma, located in the Aja Valley, Peru. While my excavations confirm a Paracas and Nasca occupation at Uchuchuma, they also demonstrated that these occupations were not continuous and that the two groups lived in different areas of the site. Artifact analyses demonstrate that food consumption, stone tool making, and ceramic production were much more varied in Paracas households, while Nasca households were more homogeneous. I conclude that Paracas people living at Uchuchuma were highly influenced by the broader social changes occurring in the Nasca region, as architecture, pottery styles, and stone tool making traditions were abandoned and replaced with new ones. I argue that the abandonment of certain Paracas traditions such as house form and ceramic technology were abandoned intentionally, as participation in the developing Nasca architectural and pottery style would have connected this community with a broader network of interaction. Finally, I suggest that the continuation in settlement, some pottery forms, and plaza use were subtle practices that allowed the Uchuchuma community to maintain ties with their past.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Bautista, Stefanie L |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Rick, John W |
| Thesis advisor | Rick, John W |
| Thesis advisor | Vaughn, Kevin |
| Thesis advisor | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Degree committee member | Vaughn, Kevin |
| Degree committee member | Voss, Barbara L, 1967- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Stefanie L. Bautista. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Stefanie Lillian Bautista San Miguel
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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