Pre-colonial Irrigation and Settlement Patterns in Three Artificial Valleys in Lima – Peru
| atmire.migration.oldid | 1654 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Raymond, Scott | |
| dc.contributor.author | Narváez, José | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-31T19:59:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-15T07:00:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-31 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2013 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This investigation consist in the analysis of the southwest section of the lower Rimac River Valley, located in the Peruvian Central Coast, where three artificial valleys, generated by three main irrigation channels named La Magdalena, Maranga, and La Legua, originated from a single mother channel from the River. The objectives of this work were to establish the occupation sequence and settlement pattern in those artificial valleys in Precolonial times trying to shed some light into the origins of social complexity and the role of the irrigation systems in this process. Another main objective is to understand the main characteristics of Precolonial societies in the area, comparing them with the classic definitions from Neoevolutionary cultural anthropology: band, tribe, chiefdom and state that have been widely used by several scholars who worked on the Peruvian case. In order to reach those objectives, this investigation used modern and old maps and aerial photos in order to make a map of the area before the modern expansion of the city in the Twentieth Century that destroyed the irrigation systems and numerous archaeological sites, locally known as huacas. Several pottery collections from this area were analyzed in order to establish the chronology and cultural association of several archaeological sites. The investigation also comprised the analysis of colonial documents from the Sixteenth to the early Nineteenth centuries, some of them published and other kept in archives and libraries in Lima, trying to establish the political and territorial organization of the indigenous population in the late Precolonial period. This investigation found few elements that support the idea of an original emergence of state or the existence of urban settlements in the valley. The political organization seemed to be closer to the notion of simple and complex chiefdoms, with a hierarchy of lords controlling some sections of the artificial valley, during the Ancon (800-400 BC), Lima (300-800 AD) and Ychsma (1000-1476 AD) occupations, that were absorbed by expansive polities in some parts of their history: Janabarriu (Chavin) associated with the Ancon occupation, Topara (400 BC-300 AD), Wari (800-1000), and Inca (1476-1532). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Narváez, J. (2014). Pre-colonial Irrigation and Settlement Patterns in Three Artificial Valleys in Lima – Peru (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27399 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27399 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/1359 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Archaeology | |
| dc.subject.classification | Peru | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Archaeology | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Irrigation | en_US |
| dc.title | Pre-colonial Irrigation and Settlement Patterns in Three Artificial Valleys in Lima – Peru | |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Archaeology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
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