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20235501(en)/10 - The Confraternity of Souls in Purgatory at the Prison of Lima (16th C)

THE CONFRATERNITY OF SOULS IN PURGATORY AT THE PRISON OF LIMA (16TH C)

LA COFRADÍA DE LAS ÁNIMAS DEL PURGATORIO EN LA CÁRCEL DE LIMA (S. XVI)

Paula Martínez Sagredo y Alberto Díaz Araya

This article addresses a little-known facet of colonial confraternities in the viceroyalty of Peru. It deals with the work they carried out inside the prisons, specifically in the city of Lima, where they took on the physical and spiritual care of the incarcerated. By examining historical documents and studying 16th century theology, we are able to establish certain aspects of daily life in prison, while paying close attention to how the notion of purgatory is articulated as a guiding principle for the care of prisoners/sinners.

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20225502(en)/1 - The Topará Ceramic Style: A Perspective from Pozuelo in the Lower Chincha Valley

THE TOPARÁ CERAMIC STYLE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM POZUELO IN THE LOWER CHINCHA VALLEY

EL ESTILO CERÁMICO TOPARÁ: UNA PERSPECTIVA DESDE POZUELO, VALLE BAJO DE CHINCHA

Boris Orccosupa, Henry Tantaleán y Charles Stanish

In this article, we discuss the discovery of an important ceramics sample in the Topará style, systematically excavated at the Pozuelo archaeological site, in the lower Chincha valley, Peru. Our ceramographic analysis allows us to identify the typological and decorative characteristics of the Topará style in the region. Drawing on this ceramographic and contextual data, we clarify how this style came to be present at the Pozuelo site and distributed throughout the Chincha Valley. Finally, we offer some reflections on its dispersion along the Peruvian prehispanic southern coast.

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20225502(en)/2 - Entre los Ríos: Intervalley Mobility on the Far Southern Coast of Peru (AD 1000-1930)

ENTRE LOS RÍOS: INTERVALLEY MOBILITY ON THE FAR SOUTHERN COAST OF PERU (AD 1000-1930

ENTRE LOS RÍOS: MOVILIDAD INTERVALLE EN LA COSTA DEL EXTREMO SUR DEL PERÚ (1000-1930 DC)

Noa Corcoran-Tadd

Recent archaeological field work in Tacna (Peru) has investigated the long-term landscape history of the Sama Valley. Located between the research hotspots of Moquegua and Arica, the valley has long been overlooked. At the same time, it is well positioned to offer new insights into debates about mobility, environment, and the transforming political economies of the Late Prehispanic and historic periods. This article presents an initial analysis of recent data on the long-term patterns of connectivity that articulated the Sama drainage with neighboring valleys and wider networks. Based on a combination of remote sensing and intensive pedestrian survey data, it is possible to trace multiple routes through the inter-valley desert pampas that border the middle and lower Sama Valley. The results highlight the utility of intensive survey methods in marginal intervalley landscapes and reveal a complex palimpsest of routes and ephemeral sites relating to regional and inter-regional mobility during the Late Prehispanic and historical periods.

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20225502(en)/3 - Occupational Trajectories and Local Spaces During the Ceramic Periods in the Puangue and Angostura Valleys, Central Chile

OCCUPATIONAL TRAJECTORIES AND LOCAL SPACES DURING THE CERAMIC PERIODS IN THE PUANGUE AND ANGOSTURA VALLEYS, CENTRAL CHILE

TRAYECTORIAS OCUPACIONALES Y ESPACIOS LOCALES DURANTE LOS PERIODOS ALFAREROS EN LOS VALLES DE PUANGUE Y ANGOSTURA, CHILE CENTRAL

Lorena Sanhueza, Itaci Correa, Fernanada Falabella, Flavio Ardiles, Brandi L. MacDonald y Michael D. Glascock

Pre-Hispanic societies of the Ceramic Periods in Central Chile have been described in archaeology as low-scale societies. Here we propose that the locality or microregion are relevant spatial scales of analysis to address the economic, social, and political life of these groups. A comparative analysis of two local-scale areas, Angostura and Puangue-Pomaire, reveals that although both areas share a general sequence and a historical process at a regional level, local trajectories differ in terms of temporality, dynamics, and characteristics. The settlement of Early Ceramic groups occurs at a much later date and is less prominent in Puangue-Pomaire, which shows evidence of a much stronger Inca and historical presence. On the other hand, a neutron activation analysis of domestic pottery sherds reveals that some knowledge, such as the sources and/or recipes of pottery raw materials, is shared on a small scale in both cases, but varies according to the characteristics and possibilities of the local landscape, which involves areas of no more than 10 km.

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20225502(en)/4 - Burial Methods, Age Profiles, Chronology, and Diet of Hunter Gatherers from the Central Pampean Dunefields: Laguna de Los Pampas Site (Pampas Region, Argentina)

BURIAL METHODS, AGE PROFILES, CHRONOLOGY, AND DIET OF HUNTER GATHERERS FROM THE CENTRAL PAMPEAN DUNEFIELDS: LAGUNA DE LOS PAMPAS SITE (PAMPAS REGION, ARGENTINA)

MODALIDAD DE ENTIERRO, EDAD, CRONOLOGÍA Y DIETA DE LOS CAZADORES RECOLECTORES DEL CAMPO DE DUNAS DEL CENTRO PAMPEANO: EL SITIO LAGUNA DE LOS PAMPAS (REGIÓN PAMPEANA, ARGENTINA)

Mariela E. González, Pablo G. Messineo, Narella Marini y Gustavo G. Politis

At the Laguna de Los Pampas archaeological site located in the Central Pampean Dunefields, eight human burials have been recorded in two sectors of the shallow lake. In this paper, we analyze this record through different lines of evidence. We present the results obtained and discuss the implications of each for interpreting the occupational dynamics of the area by hunter-gatherer groups during the Holocene. Our results indicate evidence of human occupation during the Early and Middle Holocene, with a stronger presence for the latter period; the recorded burial method is primary in all determined cases. On the other hand, the identification of an oblique tabular modification in one individual from the Middle Holocene (~6000 years BP) represents a novel finding since it would be the earliest record of this type of cranial modification for the Pampas region. The analyzed evidence suggests that Laguna de Los Pampas may be the product of periodic reoccupation of the site over time (Early and Middle Holocene), possibly motivated by the presence of outstanding landscape features, such as the lake and the resources it provided.

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