The Chavín Phenomenon and Its Regional Manifestation
Iconography and material culture associated with the first-millennium BCE ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar are readily identifiable and widespread in the Central Andes. Their …
Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the development of durable sociopolitical inequality in …
John W. Rick
Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas
Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas
The South Coast of Peru, the location where Peru's widely used period/horizon relative ceramic chronology was established and where archaeological samples were obtained for the …
christina-a.-conlee
Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
Using the Central Andean Chavín Phenomenon as a case study, this paper explores the middle ground between top-down (big data) and bottom-up (Bayesian modeling) approaches to …
Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates
El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a periodic disruption of coupled oceanic-atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific, which changes global precipitation regimes. One area …
Benjamin R. Vining
Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
Some of the earliest archaeological materials radiocarbon-dated were from the Central Andes, and archaeologists from the region were also involved in early efforts at meta-analysis …
Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can create markedly different hydroclimate …
Benjamin R. Vining
Climate and Demography Drive 7000 Years of Dietary Change in the Central Andes
Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for understanding changes in subsistence, health, and status in past societies; yet systematic …
km-wilson