Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization
Maritime Communities and Coastal Andean Urbanization
Preliminary Insights from Early Horizon Samanco, Nepeña Valley, North-Central Peru
Chapter 6 discusses the Early Horizon, first millennium BC site of Samanco (450 to 150 cal BC), near the shore in the Nepeña valley on the north coast of Peru. Fishing and shellfishing were important, as was agriculture, with maize as the most important crop. Samanco was a food production center supplying inland polities with subsistence goods from the sea and from fields in the Nepeña delta. Trade in local, utilitarian goods was a defining feature of Samanco identity.
Keywords: Early Horizon, Shellfishing, Samanco, Agriculture, Maize, Nepeña valley, Nepeña delta, Peru
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