Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores temporality at the village of Jecosh (Ancash, Peru) using a place and social memory framework. Through excavations and materials analysis of domestic and mortuary contexts, we consider the memory work involved in making and re-making place at Jecosh over the longue durée. Initial site settlement coincided with the rise of Huarás villages in the 4th century b.c.; continued site occupation in the Recuay era expanded upon Huarás practices and included the remodeling of residences and new funerary rituals. People abandoned Jecosh around a.d. 1100, but later groups constructed mortuary monuments on the site’s western edge during the 14th century a.d. Eventual resettlement of Jecosh in the 15th century a.d. during Inka times included the adoption of old buildings and practices alongside site expansion. We argue that long-term site occupation does not necessarily indicate stasis; throughout regional transformations, people at Jecosh adapted memory work practices to claim and create place.
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