Wari’s imperial influence on local Nasca diet: The stable isotope evidence

Kellner, Corina M.; Schoeninger, Margaret J.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2007.12.003

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“…The 10% emigration to the highlands alone cannot explain the abandonment of the research area observed in the MH, but is a positive indicator that migrations out of the northern RGND coincided with the climatic alterations. It also suggests that people might have migrated to other destinations, such as southern extensions of the Nasca region, where an increasing settlement density was reported during the EIP-MH transition (19,39). However, based on genetic data alone, we caution that alternative demographic factors such as mass mortality cannot be excluded at this stage.…”

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“…The Nasca developed a complex social and demographic structure in the RGND (20,38). The increase in settlement density and the advent of a hierarchic settlement structure observed in the EIP suggest that large populations accumulated in the lower valleys in the Nasca period (12,39), highly dependent on the availability of water and complex irrigation systems (5,12). The observed increasing climate variability at the end of the EIP would have decreased the predictability of agricultural productivity, and subsequent extremely dry conditions in the MH lowered the hydrological discharge from the highlands, inflicting a critical tail-off in yield.…”

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Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

Fehren‐Schmitz

Haak

Mächtle

et al. 2014

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

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Several archaeological studies in the Central Andes have pointed at the temporal coincidence of climatic fluctuations (both longand short-term) and episodes of cultural transition and changes of socioeconomic structures throughout the pre-Columbian period. Although most scholars explain the connection between environmental and cultural changes by the impact of climatic alterations on the capacities of the ecosystems inhabited by pre-Columbian cultures, direct evidence for assumed demographic consequences is missing so far. In this study, we address directly the impact of climatic changes on the spatial population dynamics of the Central Andes. We use a large dataset of pre-Columbian mitochondrial DNA sequences from the northern Rio Grande de Nasca drainage (RGND) in southern Peru, dating from ∼840 BC to 1450 AD. Alternative demographic scenarios are tested using Bayesian serial coalescent simulations in an approximate Bayesian computational framework. Our results indicate migrations from the lower coastal valleys of southern Peru into the Andean highlands coincident with increasing climate variability at the end of the Nasca culture at ∼640 AD. We also find support for a back-migration from the highlands to the coast coincident with droughts in the southeastern Andean highlands and improvement of climatic conditions on the coast after the decline of the Wari and Tiwanaku empires (∼1200 AD), leading to a genetic homogenization in the RGND and probably southern Peru as a whole.ancient DNA | South America | population history

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Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

Fehren‐Schmitz

Haak

Mächtle

et al. 2014

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

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“…For this study, carbon isotopes are used to investigate the local or non-local nature of an individual's diet. An isotopic study of the local Nasca diet using bone collagen (Kellner and Schoeninger, 2008) reveals a wide range of food items, including maize (C 4 plant) with little incorporation of marine resources. The ingestion of chicha, maize beer, was likely an integral and endemic cultural practice for the Nasca people (Kellner & Schoeninger, 2008).…”

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“…An isotopic study of the local Nasca diet using bone collagen (Kellner and Schoeninger, 2008) reveals a wide range of food items, including maize (C 4 plant) with little incorporation of marine resources. The ingestion of chicha, maize beer, was likely an integral and endemic cultural practice for the Nasca people (Kellner & Schoeninger, 2008). The analysis of botanical remains from the Nasca area site of Pajonal Alto suggests that maize, followed by the lima bean, were the most common cultivated plants.…”

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Refining oxygen isotope analysis in the Nasca region of Peru: An investigation of water sources and archaeological samples

Buzon

Conlee

Bowen

2011

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The development of complex societies, irrigation agriculture and sociopolitical transitions are of interest to researchers working in the Nasca region on the south coast of Peru. Occupied for thousands of years, many questions regarding the circumstances of these changes in the area are being investigated. Oxygen isotope analysis provides a method for exploring residential mobility of past peoples during these transitions. This study presents new d 18 O data from water sources that would have been used by the ancient inhabitants, providing important information regarding the oxygen isotope variability in the region and the necessary baseline data for migration studies in this region. Our results suggest that the isotopic composition of water sources in the Nasca region is not highly variable. In addition, archaeological human tooth enamel samples from the sites of La Tiza and Pajonal Alto are analysed.

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“…Studies illustrate different subsistence practices according to significant variation in individual age (Turner, Kingston, and Armelagos 2010), sex (Somerville et al 2015), political regimes (Lambert et al 2012), and in areas where there were different animal husbandry practices (Finucane, Agurto, and Isbell 2006). Alternatively, some studies have been unable to identify specific parameters of subsistence practices (Burger and van der Merwe 1990;Kellner and Schoeninger 2008). All of these analyses worked under the premise that maize was the main source of 13 C enrichment in Peru.…”

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Wari’s imperial influence on local Nasca diet: The stable isotope evidence

Cited by 86 publications

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Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

Refining oxygen isotope analysis in the Nasca region of Peru: An investigation of water sources and archaeological samples

FULL ISSUE Compass (2017) Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.1-65

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