Peru

Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the …
John W. Rick, Verónica S. Lema, Javier Echeverría, Giuseppe Alva Valverde, Daniel A. Contreras, Oscar Arias Espinoza, Silvana A. Rosenfeld, Matthew P. Sayre
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Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
Using the Central Andean Chavín Phenomenon as a case study, this paper explores the middle ground between top-down (big data) and …
Daniel A. Contreras
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Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas
The South Coast of Peru, the location where Peru’s widely used period/horizon relative ceramic chronology was established and …
Christina A. Conlee, Daniel A. Contreras, Ann H. Peters, Kevin J. Vaughn
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Reconstructing Landscape at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: A GIS-based Approach
The landscape around the prehistoric Peruvian ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar has undergone extensive geomorphic and …
Daniel A. Contreras
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