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Social complexity and core-periphery relationships in an Andean Formative


ceremonial centre: domestic occupation at Chavín de Huántar

Article in Antiquity · June 2022


DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.73

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Social complexity and core-periphery relationships in an


Andean Formative ceremonial centre: domestic
occupation at Chavín de Huántar
Antiquity

CHRISTIAN MESIA-MONTENEGRO

DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.73

Published online: 16 June 2022, pp. 1-20

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Summary
The site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru, lies at the heart of developing social complexity in the Andean Formative period.
The archaeological contexts on the site's immediate periphery are assessed to investigate the nature of occupation,
activities practised, and relationships between the area's inhabitants and Chavín's ceremonial centre. The peripheral
Wacheqsa sector, which began as a modest, domestic occupation in the second millennium BC, was reconfigured c.
800 cal BC into a more substantial settlement, perhaps inhabited by craftspeople producing artefacts for the Chavín
authorities. The implications of this study are relevant to wider questions regarding relationships between
monumental ceremonial centres and their immediate peripheries, and the study of early socio-economic complexity.

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