Centrum Badań Andyjskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
oraz Muzeum UW zapraszają na wykład:
Anthropogenic niche construction in an intensified ENSO
(El Niño) regime in central coastal Peru circa 3000 - 500 BP
prof. Charles Stanish
(University of South Florida)
Pałac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich, Sala Balowa
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 32, dnia 08.05.2024, godz. 13:15
Charles Stanish (Ph.D. Chicago 1985) is Executive Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment at the University of South Florida. He was director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and professor of Anthropology for 20 years prior to moving to USF. He has worked extensively in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, conducting archaeological research on the prehistoric societies of the region. His theoretical work focuses on the roles that trade, war, ritual, environmental factors and labor organization play in the evolution of human cooperation and complex societies.
His principal books include The Evolution of Human Co- operation (2017- Cambridge), Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia (2003-California), Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes (with B. Bauer, 2001-Texas) and Ancient Andean Political Economy (1992-Texas). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
Anthropogenic niche construction in an intensified ENSO (El Niño) regime in central coastal Peru circa 3000 - 500 BP.
Abstract: We explore the Paracas culture in the coastal valley of Chincha in southern Peru circa 1000 - 200 BCE. The first settlements and construction of monumental architecture in Chincha co-occur with the beginning of the modern ENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) regime. Our archaeological and geoarchaeological data indicate that there was a marked increase in rainfall activity, flooding, and sedimentation rates that has continued
to the present. Paleobotanical data allow us to trace the vegetation shifts in the valley from the pre-Paracas periods up to the Inca occupation circa AD 1450. We conclude that ENSO intensification had a positive effect on agriculture at the beginning of Paracas and is a likely factor for its rapid growth on the south coast. By the end of the first millennium BCE however, canal entrenchment, massive sedimentation and lowered groundwater levels negatively affected the agricultural base and forced the abandonment of Paracas monumental sites. We demonstrate the ingenious ways in which the indigenous people of Chincha managed the landscape changes and suggest new avenues for research for environmental archaeology on the Andean coast.
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Zadanie sponsorowane przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego w ramach umowy Nr MEiN/2023/DWM/2626 |
