The activities associated with palaces provide clues to understanding the strategies leaders
in prehistoric polities used to accrue power. Controlling craft specialists who make prestige …

Abstract The Central Andes are characterized by the early emergence of complex societies
and a chequered yet continuous cultural tradition. However, at least for certain points of time …

Ancient empires developed diverse strategies of political and cultural domination in their
conquered territories. One such strategy involved introducing imperially branded goods that …

Fieldwork at the Moche (AD 250–900) site of Licapa II in the Chicama Valley, Peru, has
resulted in a more nuanced history of the changing sociopolitical relationships among …

Recent research in the southern Jequetepeque Valley provides evidence that gender
ideologies, dualistic spatial orders, and geopolitical relations underwent major …

Archaeological studies of culture contact often presuppose culture change. Contact that did
not result in culture change is difficult to identify archaeologically, but it merits our attention …

The Vitor Valley is an alluvial oasis linking the Arequipa highlands to the Pacific coast of
southern Peru. The northern limit of the valley hosts a dense archaeological landscape of …

Here I evaluate Andean concepts understood from the Quechua and Aymara languages to
test their applicability to Moche archaeology—a region where the languages once spoken …

Abstract Between ca. AD 500-900, Cerro de Oro, a large monumental settlement located in
the lower Cañete valley of coastal Peru, saw the construction of adobe compounds …

This dissertation is an archaeological study of the Carabamba Valley (ca. 150-3,500 masl) in
Northern Peru, which aims to reconstruct settlement patterns through the longue durée (ca …