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Economy of a Prehistoric Urban Context: Commodity and Labor Flow at Moche V Pampa Grande, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Izumi Shimada
Izumi Shimada*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540
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Abstract

As a step toward delineation of prehistoric urbanism on the North Coast of Peru, Royal Ontario Museum teams have conducted intensive structural-functional analysis of “urban context” at the site of Pampa Grande, much of which was last occupied by a Moche V population (ca. A.D. 600-700). Such analysis entails, among other requirements, rigorous temporal control and a systemic conception of archaeological sites, emphasizing interlinkage of various activity loci. The multistage excavation-sampling design devised for the task was based on codification of architectural forms in terms of access pattern and on the belief that ceramically defined “contemporaneity” is inadequate for functional analysis. Application of the method showed that the site contained dispersed loci of low-output craft production, with a labor force commuting from elsewhere and fed by spatially segregated kitchens. An extensive network of corridors and formal storage complexes further attests to a concern with the control of commodity and labor movement.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 1978 , pp. 569 - 592
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1978

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