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Absolute Radiocarbon Chronology in the Formative Pottery Production Center of Santa Lucía, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Olga U Gabelmann ,
Adam Michczyński ,
Anna Pazdur  and
Jacek Pawlyta
Olga U Gabelmann
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin, ZI Lateinamerika-Institut, Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin, Germany
Adam Michczyński*
Affiliation:
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Radiocarbon Laboratory, GADAM Centre of Excellence, Bolesława Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Anna Pazdur
Affiliation:
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Radiocarbon Laboratory, GADAM Centre of Excellence, Bolesława Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Jacek Pawlyta
Affiliation:
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics, Radiocarbon Laboratory, GADAM Centre of Excellence, Bolesława Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
*
Corresponding author. Email: Adam.Michczynski@polsl.pl
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Santa Lucía is a pottery production site dating to the Formative period (about 1600 BC to AD 200). It is located in the Cochabamba valleys of the eastern Bolivian Andes. The settlement consists of a residential area and a separate workshop area. A peripheral sector of ash mounds was used as refuse sites and burial grounds. The excavations yielded a total of 16 radiocarbon samples from all 3 sectors, which were dated at the Gliwice Radiocarbon Laboratory (Gliwice, Poland). The results from the deepest trench in the workshop sector (Trench 5) provide information for the stratigraphic sequence and help to define spatial and socioeconomic changes at around 600–500 BC with the beginning of the Late Formative or Santa Lucía III phase. The 14C dates from Santa Lucía, therefore, contribute to a better definition of the existing regional Formative period phases and finally to a better understanding of the processes during the Formative period in the south-central Andes.

Type
Radiocarbon, Archaeology, and Landscape Change
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 501 - 513
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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