TY - JOUR
T1 - Provisioning Inka feasts at Tiwanaku, Bolivia
T2 - The geographic origins of camelids in the Pumapunku complex
AU - Knudson, Kelly
AU - Gardella, Kristin R.
AU - Yaeger, Jason
N1 - Funding Information:
This project would not have been possible without generous funding from grants to Kelly J. Knudson (the Institute for Social Science Research at Arizona State University , and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University ) and Jason Yaeger (H. John Heinz III Fund for Latin American Archaeology, National Geographic Society ( CRE 7310-02 ), and the Vilas Foundation and the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin at Madison). The data that form the basis of this study were collected as part of the Proyecto Arqueológico Pumapunku-Akapana, and we gratefully acknowledge the enduring support of its director, Alexei Vranich. We would also like to recognize the efforts of the project’s co-director, José María Lopez Bejarano, excavation supervisors, and excellent field staff from the Asociación de Trabajadores en Arqueología de Tiwanaku (ASTAT). We also are grateful to Bolivia’s Dirección Nacional de Arqueología (DINAR), and especially its director during our fieldwork, Javier Escalante M., for their support of our investigations. In the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory at Arizona State University, we are grateful for the laboratory assistance of Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, John Hoffman, Sara Marsteller, and Andrew Somerville. We also thank Drs. Ariel Anbar and Gwyneth Gordon of the W.M. Keck Foundation for Environmental Biogeochemistry for laboratory access and expertise.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - While political integration can be achieved by many means, here we focus on the use of feasting and statecraft in the Inka Empire of the Andean Late Horizon (c. AD 1400-1532) in South America. In order to examine Inka political integration of the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia, we examine paleomobility and paleodiet through radiogenic strontium and stable oxygen and carbon isotope data in archaeological camelid remains from the site of Tiwanaku. Mean radiogenic strontium isotope values from all archaeological camelid enamel and bone samples is 87Sr/86Sr = 0.70998 ± 0.00179 (1σ, n = 48), mean stable oxygen isotope values from a sub-set of archaeological camelid enamel and bone samples is δ18Ocarbonate (VPDB) = -10.0‰ ± 2.6‰ (1σ, n = 18) and mean stable carbon isotope values from a sub-set of archaeological camelid enamel and bone samples is δ13Ccarbonate (VPDB) = -9.0‰ ± 1.7‰ (1σ, n = 18). While many camelids consumed in these feasting events were likely local to the Lake Titicaca Basin, others came from a variety of different geologic zones, elucidating our understanding of Inka statecraft and the role of feasting in political integration in empires in the past.
AB - While political integration can be achieved by many means, here we focus on the use of feasting and statecraft in the Inka Empire of the Andean Late Horizon (c. AD 1400-1532) in South America. In order to examine Inka political integration of the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia, we examine paleomobility and paleodiet through radiogenic strontium and stable oxygen and carbon isotope data in archaeological camelid remains from the site of Tiwanaku. Mean radiogenic strontium isotope values from all archaeological camelid enamel and bone samples is 87Sr/86Sr = 0.70998 ± 0.00179 (1σ, n = 48), mean stable oxygen isotope values from a sub-set of archaeological camelid enamel and bone samples is δ18Ocarbonate (VPDB) = -10.0‰ ± 2.6‰ (1σ, n = 18) and mean stable carbon isotope values from a sub-set of archaeological camelid enamel and bone samples is δ13Ccarbonate (VPDB) = -9.0‰ ± 1.7‰ (1σ, n = 18). While many camelids consumed in these feasting events were likely local to the Lake Titicaca Basin, others came from a variety of different geologic zones, elucidating our understanding of Inka statecraft and the role of feasting in political integration in empires in the past.
KW - Andes
KW - Inca
KW - Late Horizon
KW - Middle Horizon
KW - Radiogenic strontium isotopes
KW - Stable carbon isotopes
KW - Stable oxygen isotopes
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:82155175678
SN - 0305-4403
VL - 39
SP - 479
EP - 491
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science
IS - 2
ER -