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Some Thoughts on Sican Marked Adobes and Labor Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Raffael Cavallaro  and
Izumi Shimada
Raffael Cavallaro
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Izumi Shimada
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

This paper explores the applicability of the segmentary construction-labor tax model of marked adobe distribution proposed for the solid adobe Mochica pyramids in the Moche Valley on the Peruvian North Coast for Middle Sican monumental architecture in Batan Grande farther north. The model is found inadequate to account for the Middle Sican brick-marking pattern characterized by, among other things, a very high frequency of marking and lack of a one-to-one correspondence between brick size/shape and mark. The difference seems due in part to the chamber-fill building technique of the Middle Sican pyramids which required large scale, unitary construction. Cluster analysis was carried out to assess the relative merits of various alternative models. The most plausible models are those that posit a relatively complex labor organization and specify the role of local, lower-level administrators.

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American Antiquity , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 75 - 101
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1988

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