Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2022-05-17 , DOI: 10.1017/s0959774322000117 Michele L. Koons
Here I evaluate Andean concepts understood from the Quechua and Aymara languages to test their applicability to Moche archaeology—a region where the languages once spoken are now extinct. By focusing on geographical features common to the highlands and the coast (mountains and rivers) and archaeological evidence, I look at broad patterns of Moche material culture and consider how these relate to canal-fed irrigation systems, ceramic spatial patterning and fractaline socio-political organization documented in the colonial-era Chicama Valley. I then present a case study from Licapa II in the Chicama Valley to show that the physical components of the site's layout and the spatial patterns of artifact distribution relate to temporal and socio-political divisions that have their roots in long-standing ideas in Andean thought. Overall, this study shows that through careful evaluation some Quechua and Aymara concepts, namely tinku—or two parts coming together to make a whole—is relevant to the Moche worldview. This concept is manifest through canals uniting and dividing physical space, both socio-politically and temporally. Liquids running through the canals ensure the well-being and energetic flow of Moche society.
中文翻译:
团结与分裂:莫切世界中的运河、廷库、液体和时间
在这里,我评估了从盖丘亚语和艾马拉语中理解的安第斯概念,以测试它们对莫切考古学的适用性——这个曾经使用过的语言现在已经灭绝的地区。通过关注高地和海岸(山脉和河流)共同的地理特征和考古证据,我研究了莫切物质文化的广泛模式,并考虑了这些模式与运河灌溉系统、陶瓷空间格局和分形社会政治的关系记录在殖民时代奇卡马谷的组织。然后,我介绍了来自奇卡马山谷的 Licapa II 的案例研究,以表明该地点布局的物理组成部分和人工制品分布的空间模式与时间和社会政治划分有关,这些划分源于安第斯思想中的长期思想. 全面的,tinku - 或两个部分结合在一起构成一个整体 - 与 Moche 的世界观有关。这个概念通过运河在社会政治和时间上联合和划分物理空间来体现。流经运河的液体确保了莫切社会的福祉和活力。