title: Burning down the brewery: establishing and evacuating an ancient imperial colony at Cerro Baul, Peru.
abstract: Before the Inca reigned, two empires held sway over the central Andes from anno Domini 600 to 1000: the Wari empire to the north ruled much of Peru, and Tiwanaku to the south reigned in Bolivia. Face-to-face contact came when both colonized the Moquegua Valley sierra in southern Peru. The state-sponsored Wari incursion, described here, entailed large-scale agrarian reclamation to sustain the occupation of two hills and the adjacent high mesa of Cerro Baúl. Monumental buildings were erected atop the mesa to serve an embassy-like delegation of nobles and attendant personnel that endured for centuries. Final evacuation of the Baúl enclave was accompanied by elaborate ceremonies with brewing, drinking, feasting, vessel smashing, and building burning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. moseley@anthro.ufl.edu
authors.forename: Michael E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Moseley
authors.forename: Donna J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Nash
authors.forename: Patrick Ryan
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Susan D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: DeFrance
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruales
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000266:history*; D001106:Archaeology; D001108:Architecture / Q000266:history*; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D002516:Ceramics / Q000266:history*; D002962:Civilization / Q000266:history*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D049691:History, Medieval; D006802:Human Activities / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D010568:Peru
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes