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 …
Chronology, Continuity, and Hiatus: Radiocarbon Dating of Monumental Mudbrick Architecture in Peru’s Chicama Valley
Cultural sequences often rely on relative or typological chronological techniques, even as radiometric methods producing absolute ages become increasingly common. This reflects the …
Benjamin R. Vining
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
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 …
Reconstructing Landscape at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: A GIS-based Approach
The landscape around the prehistoric Peruvian ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar has undergone extensive geomorphic and anthropogenic change since the beginning of monumental …