- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- UCIAMS-58820
- Delta13 Correction:
- Age BP:
- 630 ± 15
- Sitename:
- TR4007
- Country:
- USA
- Material:
- corn cob
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- unit L5-B01
- Context of the Sample:
- other context
- Description of the Site:
- Tarapaca Viejo. This multi-occupational settlement served as the administrative center of the lower portion of the valley in both the Late Horizon and Colonial Period until the site’s abandonment in AD 1717
- Location Details
- Country:
- Chile
- Administration Unit:
- Tarapaca
- Latitude:
- -19.9335612
- Longitude:
- -69.4928137
- Altitude:
- 1600
- Project Details
- Collected:
- 1963-2021
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- TR4007 represents the first example of a plaza associated with a fortified hilltop site that has been identified in a lower portion of the transverse valleys of northern Chile, and speaks to the cultural ties between the inhabitants of this portion of the Quebrada de Tarapacá and those living in the upper portions of the valley and the surrounding valleys as well
- Publication date:
- 2009
- References:
- Zori, C. M. (2011). Metals for the inka: craft production and empire in the Quebrada de Tarapacá, Northern Chile. University of California, Los Angeles.:
Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, Mieczysław F. Pazdur †, Andrzej Krzanowski, Adam Michczyński
We are very grateful to Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey for his support in the installation of the date calibration system, based on the OxCal program.