Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast
Coasts are dynamic, constantly changing ecosystems offering rich and varied foods and other resources. Compared with the monistic structure of crop production in many terrestrial parts of the world, some coastlines reflect a dualistic structure with complementary maritime and agricultural economies...
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| description | Coasts are dynamic, constantly changing ecosystems offering rich and varied foods and other resources. Compared with the monistic structure of crop production in many terrestrial parts of the world, some coastlines reflect a dualistic structure with complementary maritime and agricultural economies beginning in early prehistoric times. In particular, the Pacific coast of the Central Andes offers one of the world’s most abundant and diverse supplies of marine resources. The late Pleistocene to middle Holocene (∼14,500–4,000 BP) cultural sequences from south Ecuador to north Chile vary appreciably from one region to the next, but all reveal varying degrees of mixed diets of maritime and terrestrial foods. By at least ∼7,000 BP, a diversity of seafood and domesticated crops were mutually exchanged to form varied specialized and unspecialized economies in a few Andean areas. This study reports on interdisciplinary data from a complex of archaeological sites with mixed economies along the desert coast of the Chicama Valley in north Peru, specifically the Huaca Prieta area dating between ∼14,500 and 3,800 BP. Around 7,500–7,000 BP, intensified maritime and agriculture economies developed simultaneously with social differentiation between public ritual monuments and outlying domestic support sites in an environment of rich marine resources and fertile estuarine wetlands in the valley. This and other coastal areas played an important and persistent early role in human population growth, community formation, and the consilience of different but complementary technologies and principles of socio-economic organization to establish the foundations for later state development along the Central Andean coast. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f4865d286fa84d9891e95c98e20aac762022-12-22T03:55:24ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Earth Science2296-64632022-10-011010.3389/feart.2022.939214939214Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coastTom D. Dillehay0Tom D. Dillehay1Teresa Rosales Tham2Victor Vázquez3Steve Goodbred4Elizabeth Chamberlain5Gabino Rodríguez6Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United StatesEscuela de Arqueología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt, ChileDepartamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Trujillo, PeruCentro de Investigaciones Arquebiológicas y Paleoecológicas Andinas ARQUEBIOS, Trujillo, PeruDepartment of Earth Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United StatesDepartment of Soil Geography and Landscape Research, Wageningen University, Wageningen, NetherlandsDepartamento de Antropología, Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, PeruCoasts are dynamic, constantly changing ecosystems offering rich and varied foods and other resources. Compared with the monistic structure of crop production in many terrestrial parts of the world, some coastlines reflect a dualistic structure with complementary maritime and agricultural economies beginning in early prehistoric times. In particular, the Pacific coast of the Central Andes offers one of the world’s most abundant and diverse supplies of marine resources. The late Pleistocene to middle Holocene (∼14,500–4,000 BP) cultural sequences from south Ecuador to north Chile vary appreciably from one region to the next, but all reveal varying degrees of mixed diets of maritime and terrestrial foods. By at least ∼7,000 BP, a diversity of seafood and domesticated crops were mutually exchanged to form varied specialized and unspecialized economies in a few Andean areas. This study reports on interdisciplinary data from a complex of archaeological sites with mixed economies along the desert coast of the Chicama Valley in north Peru, specifically the Huaca Prieta area dating between ∼14,500 and 3,800 BP. Around 7,500–7,000 BP, intensified maritime and agriculture economies developed simultaneously with social differentiation between public ritual monuments and outlying domestic support sites in an environment of rich marine resources and fertile estuarine wetlands in the valley. This and other coastal areas played an important and persistent early role in human population growth, community formation, and the consilience of different but complementary technologies and principles of socio-economic organization to establish the foundations for later state development along the Central Andean coast.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.939214/fullhuaca prietaparedonesdual economyperuvian coastearly complexity |
| spellingShingle | Tom D. Dillehay Tom D. Dillehay Teresa Rosales Tham Victor Vázquez Steve Goodbred Elizabeth Chamberlain Gabino Rodríguez Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast Frontiers in Earth Science huaca prieta paredones dual economy peruvian coast early complexity |
| title | Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast |
| title_full | Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast |
| title_fullStr | Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast |
| title_short | Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast |
| title_sort | emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the north peruvian coast |
| topic | huaca prieta paredones dual economy peruvian coast early complexity |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.939214/full |
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