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Aspero, Peru: A Reexamination of the Site and Its Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

M. Edward Moseley  and
Gordon R. Willey
M. Edward Moseley
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Gordon R. Willey
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
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Abstract

The large preceramic site of Aspero, on the central Peruvian coast, was explored in the past by Uhle and by Willey and Corbett; however, these investigators did not recognize the presence of sizable artificial platform mounds or “corporate labor structures” at the site. In spite of its preceramic status, Aspero was a sedentary community, and the corporate labor structures suggest the beginnings of a complex, non-egalitarian society. The hypothesis is advanced that such a society was “pre-adapted” toward corporate labor activity and that this “pre-adaptation” expedited the rapid transference from a marine economy to an agricultural one at the close of the Cotton Preceramic period (about 2000-1800 B.C.).

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American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 452 - 468
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1973

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