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The Jaén Stone Bowl Tradition and Ceja de Selva Contributions to Early Andean Exchange Networks

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Abstract

Pedro Rojas's 1961 excavation of numerous stone vessels at the Huayurco site has led scholars to suspect that the Jaén region of the northeastern Peruvian Andes was an important center of early ceremonial stone bowl production. This discovery not only provided clear evidence of an independent craft technology within the ceja de selva, or eastern Andean tropical montane forest, but the similarity of these stone vessels to examples found at coastal and highland Andean sites also suggested that the Jaén region produced these vessels as a means of participating within early interregional exchange networks. Because empirical evidence of tropical forest exchange items within coastal and highland sites is difficult to obtain because of these items’ suspected perishable nature, the stone vessels represented an alternative means for understanding early Andean–Amazonian relations. Despite the importance of this discovery, little follow-up investigation has been conducted. In this article, I define the Jaén stone vessel tradition on the basis of form, design, and technology. I then review the archaeological literature on early Andean stone vessels to show how these vessels help articulate Jaén's participation within Andean interaction spheres between 2500 and 800 BC.

El hallazgo de un entierro en Huayurco con numerosas vasijas de piedra, realizado por Pedro Rojas en 1961, ha llevado a los estudiosos a reconocer la región de Jaén en los Andes Nororientales peruanos como un importante centro de producción de cuencos ceremoniales de piedra. Este descubrimiento no solo proporcionó evidencia clara de una tecnología artesanal independiente dentro de la ceja de selva, sino también la similitud de estas vasijas de piedra con ejemplos encontrados en sitios andinos de la costa y sierra sugieren que la región de Jaén producía estas vasijas como medio para participar en las primeras redes de intercambio interregional. Debido a que la evidencia empírica de elementos de intercambio de los bosques tropicales en los sitios costeros y de las tierras altas es difícil de identificar por su presunta naturaleza perecedera, las vasijas de piedra representan un medio alternativo para comprender las primeras relaciones andino–amazónicas. A pesar de la importancia de este descubrimiento, se ha realizado muy poca investigación de seguimiento. En este artículo, defino la tradición de las vasijas de piedra de Jaén basado en la forma, el diseño y la tecnología. Luego, reviso la literatura arqueológica sobre las vasijas de piedra andinas tempranas con el fin de mostrar cómo estas vasijas ayudaron a articular la participación de Jaén en las diferentes esferas de interacción andina entre 2500 y 800 aC.

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interregional interactioncomplex societiesceremonial stone vesselsChavín culturetropical forestceja de selvaAndean archaeologyinteracción interregionalsociedades complejasplatos de piedra ceremonialescultura Chavínbosque tropicalceja de selvaarqueología Andina
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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 116 - 136
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology

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