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Early civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Shelia Pozorski and
Thomas Pozorski
Shelia Pozorski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg TX 78539, USA
Thomas Pozorski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg TX 78539, USA
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Since 1980 intensive archaeological investigations have been carried out at several early sites, occupied from late preceramic through early ceramic times (4150–2950b.p.), in the Casma Valley, Peru. Preliminary results document increasing societal complexity over time as reflected in the exponential growth of monumental architecture, the acquisition of irrigation agriculture, the rise of two complex polities within the valley and the separation of religious and secular power within the ruling élite.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 253 , December 1992, pp. 845 - 870
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