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Cahuachi Site (Peru) , Nazca culture, Nazca (Peru)--Antiquities.
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1993
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F3429.1.N3S55 1993eb
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985/.27
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Cahuachi Site (Peru) , Nazca culture, Nazca (Peru)--Antiquities.
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Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World
By Helaine Silverman
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1993 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Karen Copp
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Silverman, Helaine. Cahuachi in the ancient Nasca world / by Helaine Silverman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-407-8 1. Cahuachi Site (Peru). 2. Nazca culture. 3. Nazca (Peru)Antiquities. I. Title. F3429.1.N3S55 1993 985'.27dc20 92-42223 CIP
97 96 95 94 93 C 5 4 3 2 1
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para Josu Lancho Rojas Armando Valdivia y los nios de la cuenca del ro Grande de Nazca and in fond memory of my two professors of Peruvian archaeology Gary S. Vescelius Edward P. Lanning
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Contents
A Note on Orthography
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Chapter One The Physical Setting
1
Chapter Two A History of Fieldwork in the Nazca Region
14
Chapter Three Nasca Chronology
30
Chapter Four Strong's Fieldwork at Cahuachi: Chronology and Culture
43
Chapter Five Surface Survey of Cahuachi
55
Chapter Six Architecture and Spatial Organization at Cahuachi
88
Chapter Seven Looters and Looting
100
Chapter Eight Excavation Strategy and Methodology
110
Chapter Nine Excavations in an Open Area
116
Chapter Ten Excavation at Unit F
126
Chapter Eleven Test Pits
129
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Chapter Twelve Excavation of Mound Architecture
143
Chapter Thirteen Excavation of the Room of the Posts
174
Chapter Fourteen Burials at Cahuachi
195
Chapter Fifteen Trophy Heads at Cahuachi
218
Chapter Sixteen Nasca Pottery at Cahuachi
227
Chapter Seventeen Other Ceramic Artifacts
260
Chapter Eighteen Textile Artifacts
264
Chapter Nineteen Artifacts in Other Media
275
Chapter Twenty Botanical Remains
289
Chapter Twenty-One Malacological Analysis
by Mara del Carmen Rodrguez de Sandweiss
294
Chapter Twenty-Two The Identification of Cahuachi as a Ceremonial Center
300
Chapter Twenty-Three The Significance and Broader Context of Cahuachi
320
Bibliography
345
Index
361
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A Note on Orthography
Except when I am quoting others, Nasca specifically refers to the famous archaeological culture dating to the Early Intermediate Period that is characterized by prefire slip painting of iconographically complex motifs. Nazca denotes the geographical area, river, modern town, and all of the prehispanic and postconquest societies that existed in the drainage. I advocate this orthographic convention to avoid semantic confusion. In so doing, I recognize that Menzel, Rowe, and Dawson (1964: 8) view Nazca as a misspelling and Nasca as the historically correct form. Nevertheless, the
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