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Feasting with Zea Mays in the Middle and Late Formative North Coast of Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Hugo C. Ikehara ,
J. Fiorella Paipay  and
Koichiro Shibata
Hugo C. Ikehara
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (hcil@pitt.edu
J. Fiorella Paipay
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Palinología y Paleobotánica, Sectión de Ciencias Ambientales (LID), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru (fiorellapaipay@hotmail.com)
Koichiro Shibata
Affiliation:
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan (ks@inst.kobe-cufs.ac.jp
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Abstract

This work reports the presence of Zea mays microremains in three feasting episodes performed during the Middle and Late Formative Period in the North Coast of Peru. The remains of the Cerro Blanco de Nepeña feasts may represent a step toward the intensification of Zea mays consumption in ritual contexts, related to changes in the ceramic assemblages, and parallel to the transformation of ritual spaces during the second half of the Formative Period.

El presente trabajo reporta la presencia de micro-restos de Zea mays en tres episodios de festines llevados a cabo durante el periodo Formativo Medio y Tardío en la Costa Norte del Perú. Los restos de los festines de Cerro Blanco de Nepeña representan un paso en la intensificación del consumo de Zea mays en contextos rituales, relacionado a cambios en la vajilla cerámica y paralelo a las transformaciones de los espacios ceremoniales durante la segunda mitad del Formativo.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 217 - 231
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2013

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