Emily Stovel

... The most frequent known styles originate from the area between southern Bolivia and northern Argentina from the Middle Period (eg, Isla, Tarija Bowls, Hornillos) or Late Intermediate Period (eg, Yavi, Lípez or Potosí styles, Hedionda, and Huruquilla/Yura). ... 22 Isla 15 Bowls** 14 ...

Although Andean archaeology has long used the term “ethnic” to refer to human groups, new understandings of ethnicity have injected less static understandings of contextualized identity construction into our models of the past. A review of recent work on ethnicity in the field reveals, however, that methodological approaches to these social entities do not always follow suit and rather favor normative synchronie comparisons. This paper explores the origins and trends in the study of ethnic groups and ethnicity in Andean archaeology, arguing that we may be seeing the persistence of the culture concept in the guise of ethnicity. It also examines best practices in the literature in order to make recommendations concerning the adoption of local, contextual, and diachronic methods in conjunction with multiple lines of evidence. These practices are more likely to expose the processes of identity construction by rendering explicit the relationships among culture, ethnicity, and the use of ...

... Citation. Hastorf, Christine A., Bandy, Matthew, Whitehead, William, Steadman, Lee, Moore, Katherine, Paz Soria, Jose Luis, et al.(2005). Proyecto Arqueológico Taraco Informe de las Excavaciones de la Temporada del 2004 en los Sitios de Kumi Kipa, Sonaji y Chiripa. ...

Este artículo presenta un catastro de las pipas cerámicas provenientes de sitios arqueológicos del salar de Atacama (SA) y describe sus atributos morfológicos, la composición química elemental de las pastas y la composición química de sus residuos de combustión. Las pipas presentan una forma distintiva del SA: la bo-quilla con labio evertido y el hornillo con motivos zoo-antropomorfos abstractos. Las pastas presentan atributos de origen local y sus residuos ausencia de tripta minas y nicotina en niveles traza, sumado a una variedad de compuestos genéricos de origen vegetal y animal. Estos atributos sugieren una finalidad distinta del consumo de compuestos psicotrópicos y permite hipotetizar que las pipas del SA fueron utilizadas para sahumar. Los resultados se comparan exploratoriamente con aquellos publicados sobre pipas del Noroeste de Argentina.

This article presents a characterization of polished thinwares found at the site of Coyo Aldea contextualized by recent scholarly advances in the transition between the Formative and Middle Periods (ca. AD 100-700) in San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile, and the Andes. In particular, we explore polished household thinwares by juxtaposing them against similar polished vessels common in local graves. Clarifying variation within residential types and between these and burial types allows us to better understand household ceramic consumption at this time and the potential ritual role burial ceramics played in defining new social complexity. This work prompts us to look again at how local material culture functioned in the negotiation of power in the mortuary context while reinforcing the persistent need for more systematic excavation of household contexts.

Objectives: To assess the relationship between the Tiwanaku polity and the individuals buried at the Middle Horizon (AD500-1000) cemetery of Larache in northern Chile, a site that has been singled out as a potential elite foreign enclave. Materials and Methods: We explore this association through the skeletal remains of 48 individuals interred at the cemetery of Larache using bioarchaeological, biogeochemical, and artifactual evidence. Data from cranial modification practices, violent injury, and the mortuary assemblage are used to explore culturally constructed elements of status and identity, radiogenic strontium isotope analyses provide us with a perspective on the geographic origins of these individuals, and stable carbon and nitrogen analyses allow discussion of paleodiet and access to resources. Results: Radiogenic strontium isotope values show the presence of multiple first generation migrants at Larache. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data reveal significant differences among individuals. The mortuary context reveals a standard pattern for the oases but also includes a series of unusual burials with abundant gold and few other objects. Interestingly, both local and nonlocal individuals with different head shapes had access to the differentiated burial context; however nonlocal individuals appear to be the only ones with a heavily maize-based diet. Conclusions: Our evidence shows that Larache served as a burial place for a diverse, yet culturally integrated and potentially elite segment of the Atacame~ no population, but not a foreign enclave as had been postulated. Am J Phys Anthropol 000:000–000, 2015. V C 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.