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Lurin Valley, Peru: Early Intermediate Period Settlement Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Timothy K. Earle
Timothy K. Earle*
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Department of Anthropology University of Michigan
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Abstract

The relationships between the social development in the upper Lurin valley and an expanding Early Intermediate period Lima state are examined. Internally, population growth and irrigation complexity progress together in the Lurin. Warfare, although not directly caused by population expansion, may function to regulate population. With irrigation and population expansion, a local social stratification originates but political control remains highly dispersed. A centralized control is only initiated by the external introduction of direct dominance by the Lima state.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 1972, pp. 467 - 477
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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