Local water source variation and experimental Chicha de Maíz brewing: Implications for interpreting human hydroxyapatite δ18O values in the Andes

Gagnon, Celeste Marie; Andrus, C. Fred T.; Ida, J; Richardson, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.008

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“…To date, however, there is no clear way to differentiate maize consumed as a meal or in the form of chicha from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data. Some preliminary analyses show enrichment in δ 18 O as a result of the boiling involved in the preparation process of chicha (Gagnon et al, ). However, an absence of enrichment in δ 18 O, which is beyond the scope of this paper, does not eliminate the possibility that Maize was consumed in the form of chicha, since studies in Northern Chile and other Andean regions shows that the local production of maize chicha included beverages that were uncooked.…”

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Maize (Zea mays) consumption in the southern andes (30°–31° S. Lat): Stable isotope evidence (2000 BCE–1540 CE)

Alfonso‐Durruty

Troncoso

Larach

et al. 2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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Maize (Zea mays) consumption in the southern andes (30°–31° S. Lat): Stable isotope evidence (2000 BCE–1540 CE)

Alfonso‐Durruty

Troncoso

Larach

et al. 2017

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Another possibility is that the enriched δ 18 O values in humans may suggest that communities were boiling and/or fermenting beverages. As water is boiled and sits during fermentation, the lighter 16 O evaporates, resulting in enriched δ 18 O values (74,79). These considerations help to clarify why the δ 18 O values from enamel carbonates are enriched relative to water in the region, further demonstrating that these individuals did not spend their childhoods in distant locales or higher altitudes.…”

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Early specialized maritime and maize economies on the north coast of Peru

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Dillehay

Feranec

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We assess diet and economies of middle Holocene (∼7,500 to 4,000 calibrated [cal] B.P.) humans at coexisting mound sites (Huaca Prieta and Paredones) in north coastal Peru and document regular consumption of maize by ∼6,500 to 6,000 cal B.P. and its earliest use as a staple food in this area of the Andes between 5,000 and 4,500 cal B.P. Stable isotope data from enamel carbonates and dentin collagen (childhood diet) and dental microwear texture analysis (adult diet) demonstrate dietary and economic specialization. Previous studies revealed maize and mixed-food refuse at both sites, but this study documents actual food consumption, showing that these communities situated a few hundred meters apart had significantly distinct diets in childhood and adulthood. Huaca Prieta focused on marine resources, although there are some contributions from terrestrial meat. Paredones individuals primarily consumed maize during childhood (up to 70% of the juvenile diet), as shown by δ13C values, apatite-collagen spacing, and discriminant analysis of δ13Ccoll, δ13Ccarb, and δ15N values. Maize was likely used as a weaning food (e.g., gruel and/orchicha—a maize beverage), hinting at the significant role of breastfeeding mothers, weanling infants, and children in the development of maize as a staple crop. Additionally, dental microwear data show Paredones adult diets are high in abrasives, potentially from maize processing. The distinct foodways at these neighboring sites result from and also reflect their social and political distinctions. These differences in food production, distribution, and consumption generated opportunities for exchange, an interaction that bound them together in mutual benefit.

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“…They found little difference in residence between individuals buried in the urban sector and Huaca de la Luna but temporally increasing residential variability among the sacrificial victims. However, these interpretations must be supported by additional analysis, given the effects that chicha consumption can have on human δ 18 O values (Gagnon, Andrus, Ida, & Richardson, 2015; Gagnon & Juengst, 2018). Finally, Gagnon's (2019) analysis of stress indicators suggests that individuals buried in the huaca enjoyed slightly better health than those interred in the urban sector.…”

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Nonsacrificial violence at the Huacas de Moche, north coastal Peru

Gagnon

Uceda

2020

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The analysis of traumatic injuries provides bioarchaeologists with unique insight into patterns of violence among past human societies. This analysis explores antemortem and perimortem skeletal trauma and what it suggests about the experiences of violence among the Moche of north coastal Peru (A.D. 200-900). Violence among the Moche has been well documented, both by the Moche themselves in their iconographic communications and through the analysis of the skeletal remains of those they sacrificed. These sources provided us with an incomplete view. What has not been studied are the patterns of traumatic injury that affect those who were not among the sacrificed and what these patterns can tell us about the risk of violence among other Moche dead. To this end, the skeletal remains of 96 individuals interred in the Huacas de Moche site were examined. Excavations at this paramount urban centre have recovered remains from tombs located in two distinct contexts, Huaca de la Luna and the urban sector. Given the material investment made into the construction of Huaca de la Luna and its ritual importance particularly as a space where violence was enacted and memorialized, it is hypothesized that those buried within its precincts would have different lived experiences of skeletal trauma than those buried throughout the urban sector. This work finds that although both groups experienced very little accidental trauma, individuals buried in Huaca de la Luna experienced significantly more trauma resulting from interpersonal violence than did those interred in the urban sector. This may suggest that variation in risk of violence was among the biosocial distinctions that defined these groups.

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Local water source variation and experimental Chicha de Maíz brewing: Implications for interpreting human hydroxyapatite δ18O values in the Andes

Cited by 15 publications

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Maize (Zea mays) consumption in the southern andes (30°–31° S. Lat): Stable isotope evidence (2000 BCE–1540 CE)

Maize (Zea mays) consumption in the southern andes (30°–31° S. Lat): Stable isotope evidence (2000 BCE–1540 CE)

Early specialized maritime and maize economies on the north coast of Peru

Nonsacrificial violence at the Huacas de Moche, north coastal Peru

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