Slides: Cutright 2013: Lambayeque Politics in the Chaupiyunga: A View from Ventanillas

Lambayeque Politics in the Chaupiyunga:

A View from Ventanillas

Robyn E. CutrightCentre College

• Overview of 2011 field season findings• Current ideas of chronology and cultural affiliation

• What can this site tell us about Lambayeque politics in the middle valley?

External compound wall

Huaca 1Compound wall

Huaca 2

Huaca 1 and plaza

Huaca 3 and modern cemetery

Overview of Sector D

Mound in Sector D

Residential terrace

Coastal fineware

Shimada 2000

Coastal utilitarian wares

Tinajas

Ring and pedestal-base bowls

Ollas

Coastal Cajamarca ceramics

Middle valley/highland utilitarian wares

Utilitarian wares from nearby chaupiyunga/ highland affiliated Las Varas

Murga and Tsai 2006

Hybrid/local styles?

Paddle-stamped body with ‘ugly head’ applique

Huaca 2

Huaca 1

Period Dates Jequetepeque Lambayeque/La Leche

Chimú AD 1320/ 1400-1470

Farfán Túcume

Late Lambayeque

AD 1100-1320/1400

Pacatnamú Túcume

Middle Lambayeque

AD 900-1100

La Mesa, Huaca las Estacas

Batán Grande, Chotuna

Chimú compound at FarfánLambayeque compound at Pacatnamú

Lambayeque compound at Farfán

Lambayeque political organization• Conquest and administration by Middle

Sicán to the north? (Castillo 2001, Prieto 2010)

• Interaction of multiple independent polities? (e.g. Mackey 2011, Sapp 2011)

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VentanillasLas Varas

TalamboFarfan

Huaca las Estacas

Coast-highland interactions in the middle valley

Coastal huacas in the chaupiyungaView of Huaca 1 from Quebrada Caracol View to the west from

Huaca 1

VentanillasLas Varas

TalamboFarfan

Huaca las Estacas

Coast-highland interactions in the middle valley

Thank you to:• Gabi Cervantes, John

Rucker, and Billy Spradlin

• The communities of Pay Pay and Ventanillas, especially the Bazán family, and Howard Tsai

• Ed Swenson, John Warner, Guy Duke, and Sally Lynch for generous help with total station mapping

• INC-Cajamarca

• Funding from Centre College Faculty Development Committee and Metzger Fund for International Field Research