Since the Virú Project, the use of Castillo Decorated as the principal chrono-cultural element to... more Since the Virú Project, the use of Castillo Decorated as the principal chrono-cultural element to characterize the Virú-Gallinazo presence laid to a “Gallinazo illusion“. Unfortunately, it appears that our knowledge about the Virú-Gallinazo populations are still limited, and most of the time we define them through the prism of the Mochicas. In order to understand who these groups were, we analyzed the spatial distribution of the following ceramics styles trough the northern coast using GIS: Negative (Gallinazo and Carmelo Negative), Castillo Decorated and Gallinazo White-Red-Orange. These styles compose the Virú-Gallinazo complex as it was defined by Bennett, Ford and all the member of the Virú project. We registered 479 sites between the Piura and Huarmey valleys. These data allow us to present in this paper the principal results of an intra-site, regional and macro-regional analyses. With this research, we identified three patterns of site distributions at the regional scale, and specific associations between the ceramic styles and their relation with mochica’s artefacts.
The western coast of the Sechura Desert, with its specific geographical and archaeological settin... more The western coast of the Sechura Desert, with its specific geographical and archaeological settings, allows a geoarchaeological study based on the crossing of excavations and geormorphological pit data. Indeed, the Las Salinas depression, which is today arid and flooded only during the major El Niño events, has a strong potential in term of socio-environmental reconstructions. The interrelations prove to be strong between pre-hispanic communities of the second half of the 1st millenium AD which practicing an important fishing and fish preparation, and the environments and ecosystems belonged to a vast palaeo-lagoon. The geoarchaeological study allows to better understand the links between the natural environments and these populations strongly dependant of it because of their activities, but also able to adapt to important environmental changes. This variability is confirmed by palaeogeographical data for the two last millennia. Indeed, the occupation of Bayovar-01 site is contemporary to a vast lagoon system feeds by wetter palaeoclimatic conditions (several El Niño events participate to these) and set since several centuries in relation to the main shore bar building. The 8th century AD turning point shows an aridification of the climate, the closing of the lagoon and its concomitant evaporation and the end of the occupation
Since the Virú Project, the use of Castillo Decorated as the principal chrono-cultural element to... more Since the Virú Project, the use of Castillo Decorated as the principal chrono-cultural element to characterize the Virú-Gallinazo presence laid to a “Gallinazo illusion“. Unfortunately, it appears that our knowledge about the Virú-Gallinazo populations are still limited, and most of the time we define them through the prism of the Mochicas. In order to understand who these groups were, we analyzed the spatial distribution of the following ceramics styles trough the northern coast using GIS: Negative (Gallinazo and Carmelo Negative), Castillo Decorated and Gallinazo White-Red-Orange. These styles compose the Virú-Gallinazo complex as it was defined by Bennett, Ford and all the member of the Virú project. We registered 479 sites between the Piura and Huarmey valleys. These data allow us to present in this paper the principal results of an intra-site, regional and macro-regional analyses. With this research, we identified three patterns of site distributions at the regional scale, and specific associations between the ceramic styles and their relation with mochica’s artefacts.
The western coast of the Sechura Desert, with its specific geographical and archaeological settin... more The western coast of the Sechura Desert, with its specific geographical and archaeological settings, allows a geoarchaeological study based on the crossing of excavations and geormorphological pit data. Indeed, the Las Salinas depression, which is today arid and flooded only during the major El Niño events, has a strong potential in term of socio-environmental reconstructions. The interrelations prove to be strong between pre-hispanic communities of the second half of the 1st millenium AD which practicing an important fishing and fish preparation, and the environments and ecosystems belonged to a vast palaeo-lagoon. The geoarchaeological study allows to better understand the links between the natural environments and these populations strongly dependant of it because of their activities, but also able to adapt to important environmental changes. This variability is confirmed by palaeogeographical data for the two last millennia. Indeed, the occupation of Bayovar-01 site is contemporary to a vast lagoon system feeds by wetter palaeoclimatic conditions (several El Niño events participate to these) and set since several centuries in relation to the main shore bar building. The 8th century AD turning point shows an aridification of the climate, the closing of the lagoon and its concomitant evaporation and the end of the occupation
Las sociedades andinas se enfrentaron y siguen enfrentándose a diversas crisis como fenómenos El ... more Las sociedades andinas se enfrentaron y siguen enfrentándose a diversas crisis como fenómenos El Niño, terremotos, cambios de poder, crisis económicas, migraciones, modificaciones del territorio y de las fronteras. Ya sean climáticas, sociales, políticas o económicas, temporales, cíclicas o de más larga duración, las crisis generaron diferentes tipos de reacción en las poblaciones antiguas y modernas. Los temas centrales de este libro son las dinámicas territoriales, las fronteras y las movilidades en los Andes, temas intemporales que tuvieron probablemente procesos y soluciones comunes y/o totalmente diferentes en función del periodo y de las áreas culturales. Este volumen reúne 10 artículos que son la prolongación de ponencias presentadas en una mesa redonda europea que tuvo lugar en París en 2013. Los tres enfoques —espacial, diacrónico y pluridisciplinario— constituyen la originalidad y la riqueza de las contribuciones que, sin erigir nuevos paradigmas, abren nuevas pistas de reflexiones. A nivel espacial, los autores, arqueólogos y geógrafos desarrollan trabajos y reflexiones a partir de casos de estudios provenientes de Perú y de Ecuador, de zonas costeras, serranas y selváticas, pero también de la costa Atlántica de América del Sur. En el tiempo, tratan de sociedades y culturas prehispánicas (Mochicas, Chimús, Recuay, Yschma e Inka…) y de poblaciones contemporáneas de las regiones de Cuzco y Cuenca. Finalmente, el diálogo entre los temas abordados y áreas culturales se dio también a través de metodologías como la arqueología, la geomorfología, la zooarqueología, la tecnología alfarera, la etnohistoria y la geografía. Los artículos presentan entonces un panorama muy interesante de las sinergias posibles entre periodos y áreas culturales sobre temas antiguos que atraviesan el tiempo y que siguen impactando en las sociedades actuales de los Andes.
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its concomitant evaporation and the end of the occupation
its concomitant evaporation and the end of the occupation