- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- UCIAMS-58824
- Delta13 Correction:
- Age BP:
- 685 ± 15
- Sitename:
- TR4015
- Country:
- USA
- Material:
- charcoal
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- unit L3-CS01
- 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:
- -19.9405715
- Longitude:
- -69.5185148
- Altitude:
- 1420
- Project Details
- Collected:
- 1963-2021
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- TR4015 is a large hilltop site that also contains evidence of smelting activities using clay-walled huayra furnaces. The site is bounded on the eastern end by a wall, shallow moat, and a massive second wall around a domestic component that covers the remainder of the hill spur. The location, coupled with the defensive features of the walls and moat, suggest that TR4015 was a fortified site.
- 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.