A late pre-Hispanic ceramic chronology for the upper Moquegua Valley, Peru
By: Charles Stanish.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 16; Publication -- 1425; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1425.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Peru -- Pottery.; Pottery dating -- Peru.; Pottery -- Peru.; Peru -- Archaeology.
Description: This report offers a ceramic sequence for the late pre-Hispanic periods of the Moquegua Valley in southern Peru. The sequence is based on excavation and survey data from 17 sites in the Otora Valley, the northernmost tributary of the Osmore (Moquegua) Drainage. Five pre-Hispanic periods have been defined beginning at approximately A.D. 900 and continuing on to the Late Horizon (ca. 1475). The principal ceramic types for each phase are presented in this report.