Survey at Chiripa

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Survey at Chiripa

• Section 104
• Efreme Belete, Carrie Maulsby, and Renna
  Brown-Taher
• Section 105
• Stephanie Farnum and Michael Hulten
• Section 109
• Lily Rose Hartwig and Jesus Lara

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A Survey of the Taraco Peninsula
TARACO ARCHAELOGICAL PROJECT 2003 (TAP)

• Research Leader Efreme Belete
• Assistants Carrie Maultsby
• Renna Brown-Taher
• Section 104

University of California, Berkeley
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The Peninsula
Site of Chiripa
Lake Titicaca from Space
GSG Bill Whitehead working on the Taraco
Peninsula
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Surveying the Taraco Peninsula

• The Master Grid

• The master grid is created for every new site
  using two arbitrarily placed datum points on the
  north line.

Bandy dissertation
Bandy dissertation
Bandy dissertation
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Surface Collection Procedure

• Field Identification
• Stratigraphy vs. Loci
• Sampling Surface Shreds

• Population (50 by 50m)
• Sample (circle with 5m radius or 100 shreds)
• Statistical significance

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The Big Picture
Bandys dissertation
Bandys dissertation
Map of entire project area
Map of archaeological sites
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The Results
Bandys dissertation
Putting It All Together!
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Works Cited

• Dr. Matthew S. Bandy
• 2001 Population and History in the Ancient
  Titicaca Basin. Doctoral dissertation, Department
  of Anthropology, University
  of California Berkeley.
• 2001 Population and History in the Ancient
  Titicaca Basin. Doctoral dissertation, Department
  of Anthropology, University of California
  Berkeley.
• 2001. Environmental and Political Change in the
  Formative Titicaca Basin. Paper presented at the
  66th annual meeting of the Society for American
  Archaeology, New Orleans, LA.
• 2000. Population Dynamics and Polity Formation in
  the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin Formative. Paper
  presented at the 40th annual meeting of the
  Institute for Andean Studies, Berkeley, CA.
• Whitehead, Bill
• 2003 Taraco Archaeological Project. Electronic
  document, http//andean.kulture.org/tap/
• Photo Credits
• Slide 1, 2 Taraco Archaeological Project
  Electronic document,
• Slide 2 Map of the Taraco Peninsula
  Geophysical Militar, Gobierno de Bolivia, La Paz,
  Bolivia.
• Lake Titicaca From Space NASA photo
• Slide 3 Grid Pictures Taraco Archaeological
  Project Survey Guide. Hastorf, et all.
• Slide 4 picture of sediment
• Slide 5, 6 Map of project sites and time
  stratification 2001. Environmental and
  Political Change in the Formative Titicaca Basin.
  Paper presented at the 66th annual meeting of the
  Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans,
  LA.

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Survey At Chiripa
Survey at Chiripa Section 105 Stephanie
Farnum Michael Hulten

• Section 105
• Stephanie Farnum
• Michael H

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How Does Survey Help Excavation?

• Helps locate and record the whereabouts of sites
  and features.
• Surface survey makes assessments of the sites
  size, type and layout.
• Can detect patterns of intrasite artifact
  distribution.

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Why Do We Survey?

• Surface surveys map out an area for further
  excavations.
• It is impossible to excavate the entire area.
• Excavation is damaging to the land and the
  artifacts that lie with in it.

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How to Survey Chiripa

• Method was exploratory
• Systematic sampling using the site grid
  established in 1992
• 50 x 50 grid pattern to find limits of artifact
  distribution defining boundaries of site
• Dog leash survey

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Results of Survey

• Chiripa was characterized as a mound similar to a
  small village
• Surface collection showed prehistoric occupation
  at Chiripa
• Two distinct patterns of inhabitation
• Differentiation of different artifacts to
  different groups

Pattern 1
andean.kulture.org/tap
Pattern 2
andean.kulture.org/tap
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Interpretation and Use

• Site didnt have one occupation
• Broken shards make it hard to link Early, Middle
  and Late Chiripa ceramics specifically.
• Chiripa phase therefore considered as one time
  unit.
• Chiripa counted as one of the largest Middle
  Formative period sites in all of Titicaca Basin
• Middle Formative Chiripa was much larger than a
  small village of 14-16 houses
• The mound, in Chiripa times, was a ceremonial
  rather than domestic zone

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Forbidden ArchaeologyThe Sad Story of Yujra

• Presenter Lily Rose Hartwig
• Assistants Ricky, Kristine
• Section 109
• Date 10/7/2003
• Theme Survey and Sampling

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Selection
Late Chiripa Ceramics
Late Chiripa Ceramics
Taraco Archaeological Project
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What Went Wrong?
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Struggles
Yujra Excavation Site
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Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Location of Tennis Court
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References Section 105

• http//archaeology.about.com/library/atlas/blboliv
  ia.htm
• http//exchanges.state.gov/culprop/bolivia/0000001
  3.htm
• Andean.kulture.org/tap/
• Renfrew, Colin and Bahn, Paul
• Archeology Thames and Hudson
• Hastorf, Christine Anne
• Early Settlement at Chiripa, Bolivia Research
• Of the Taraco Archeological Project

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Bibliography Section 109

• Yujra
• 1996 Taraco Archaeological Project
  1996 Excavations at Chiripa, Bolivia. Report,
  96.
• Chiripa Yujra, University of
  California, Berkeley.
• Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn
• 2000 Archaeology Theories Methods and
  Practice. London Thames Hudson Ltd.
• Image Credits
• Slide 2 Map of the Taraco Archaeological Project
  (TAP), W.T.Whitehead, 2003, University of
  California, Berkeley (UCB)
• Ceramics from Coa Collu, (TAP), W. T.
  Whitehead, 2003, (UCB)
• Slide 3 Map of the Yujra East Wall Profile,
  1996, W. T. Whitehead, TAP, UCB.
• Detail of excavation form, 1996, W. T.
  Whitehead, TAP, UCB.
• Slide 4 Chiripa workers clearing surface survey,
  1996, W. T. Whitehead, TAP, UCB
• Slide 5 Map of the Mound at Chiripa, 1999, M. S.
  Bandy and W. T. Whitehead, TAP, UCB