Chan Chan: A Case Study of Urban Change in Peru

Topic, John R.; Moseley, Michael E.

doi:10.1179/naw.1983.21.1.004

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“…The interpretation of the Intervalley Canal as a project conceived for the direct benefit of the Chimu capital is also closely tied to the chronology of Chan Chan proposed by Topic and Moseley (1983). They held that the Intervalley canal was constructed during Phase 1 or 2 of Chan Chan's development and therefore essential to the further expansion of the capital (163).…”

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Dating the Ascope Canal System: Competition for Water during the Late Intermediate Period in the Chicama Valley, North Coast of Peru

Huckleberry

Caramanica

Quilter

2017

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Here we present the first 14C ages for the Ascope Canal System (ACS), a large pre-Hispanic hydraulic network in the Chicama Valley on the north coast of Peru. Composed of multiple alignments that irrigated areas north of the river, our results indicate that the ACS was constructed and operated in the Late Intermediate Period, ca. A.D. 1000-1400. This overlaps in time with the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal that diverted water on the south side of the Chicama River and extended to the city of Chan Chan. Conservative estimates of discharge capacity indicate that the canals combined would have exceeded stream flow in the Chicama River half of the year. The ACS appears to have functioned for several centuries and would have been in direct competition with the Intervalley Canal with, apparently, insufficient water for both systems and other Chicama Valley canals during most of the year. This study underscores the complexities of understanding the operations and histories of irrigation systems in complex societies.

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Dating the Ascope Canal System: Competition for Water during the Late Intermediate Period in the Chicama Valley, North Coast of Peru

Huckleberry

Caramanica

Quilter

2017

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…Topic , 1982J. Topic , 1990Topic and Moseley 1983). Barrios of small irregularly agglutinated rooms that cover more than a square kilometer at Chan Chan are thought to have housed some 20,000 people, many of whom were craft specialists, traders, and retainers (Topic 1982, pp.…”

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Multiregional Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Andes During the Late Intermediate Period (c. A.D. 1000–1400)

Covey

2008

J Archaeol Res

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During the Late Intermediate period (LIP, c. A.D. 1000-1400), the central Andes experienced the decline of the Wari and Tiwanaku states, as well as processes of state formation, regional population growth, and competition culminating in the imperial expansion of the Chimú and Inka polities. The LIP holds the potential to link the archaeological features of early Andean states with the material signatures of the later ones, providing a critical means of contextualizing the intergenerational continuities and breaks in state structures and imperial strategies. The recent proliferation of LIP research and the completion of a number of regional studies permit the overview of six LIP regions and the comparison of highland and lowland patterns of political and economic organization, social complexity, and group identity.

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“…Several sequences have been proposed for the U-shaped structures at Chan Chan (including Andrews 1974;Kolata 1982;Topic and Moseley 1985). Andrews proposed the first sequence; it was later modified by Kolata, who drew on information not available to Andrews, especially a seriation of the adobe bricks used in the U-shaped structures and ciudadelas.…”

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“…Andrews proposed the first sequence; it was later modified by Kolata, who drew on information not available to Andrews, especially a seriation of the adobe bricks used in the U-shaped structures and ciudadelas. Topic and Moseley (1985), in turn, relied on Kolata, as well as ceramic information from ciudadelas, areas adjacent to the ciudadelas, and rural U-shaped structures. There are only two major differences between the Kolata sequence and the Topic and Moseley sequence.…”

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From Stewards to Bureaucrats: Architecture and Information Flow at Chan Chan, Peru

Topic

2003

Latin Am. antiq.

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.Recent research on prehispanic water management throughout the Americas has made significant contributions to our understanding of the diversity of adaptive systems employed in regions where water is seasonally scarce, such as the Maya Lowlands. Since much of this workfocuses on large-scale technologies, the political and economic consequences of these systems for smaller social units remain poorly understood. Social dynamics associated with less-intensive forms of water use and control are investigated at Late Classic (A.D. 600-900) Copdn, in a water-rich setting of western Honduras. Ethnographic, iconographic, and archaeological datasets suggest that lagoons located in Copdn's urban residential sectors may have been conceptualized, utilized, and maintained as communal property with ancestral ties by the inhabitants of surrounding domestic groups. By shifting the scale of analysis from the polity to the community level, these lagoons can be viewed as forms of communal property that created an economic and ideological basis for local social integration but offered limited opportunity for the centralization of power through monopolistic control. Yet, toward the end of the Late Classic, the appropriation of water-related dynastic symbolism and possibly ritual seems to have provided nonroyal elites with a meansfor creating local social identities, which undercut and eroded royal authority.Las investigaciones recientes del manejo del agua en Mesoamerica prehispdnica han contribuido a nuestro entendimiento de la diversidad de sistemas adaptivos que se empleaban en regiones de poco agua, como las Tierras Bajas Mayas. Sin embargo, como mucho de este trabajo se enfoque en las tecnologias intensivas de escala grande, se quedan poco entendidas las consecuencias politicas y econdmicas de estos sistemas para unidades sociales pequenas. Se investiga la dindmica social relacionada con formas menos intensivas del uso y control del agua durante el periodo clasico tardio (600-900 d. C. en el sitio maya cladsico de Copdn, Honduras. Al cambiar la escala del andlisis de la ciudad a la comunidad, se sugiere que las lagunas de Copdn, ubicadas en los sectores residenciales urbanos del sitio, puedan haber sido conceptuadas, utilizadas, y mantenidas por los habitantes de los circundantes grupos domesticos como recursos comunales con vinculos ancestrales. De esta manera, las lagunas crearon una base economica e ideologica para la integracidn social local. Sin embargo, haciafinales del cldsico tardio, el uso del simbolismo dindstico, y posiblemente del ritual, relacionado con el agua did a los elites no royales una manera para aumentar su prestigio y posicicn social. Asi, el manejo del agua a la vez integro ...

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Chan Chan: A Case Study of Urban Change in Peru

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Dating the Ascope Canal System: Competition for Water during the Late Intermediate Period in the Chicama Valley, North Coast of Peru

Dating the Ascope Canal System: Competition for Water during the Late Intermediate Period in the Chicama Valley, North Coast of Peru

Multiregional Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Andes During the Late Intermediate Period (c. A.D. 1000–1400)

From Stewards to Bureaucrats: Architecture and Information Flow at Chan Chan, Peru

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