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Eating the Valley: a Paleoethnobotanical Investigation of Local Food Use and Identity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia in the Late Intermediate Period

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dc.contributorMcClure, Stephanie M.
dc.contributorLynn, Christopher D.
dc.contributorMcKain, Michael R.
dc.contributor.advisorChiou, Katherine L.
dc.contributor.authorSponholtz, Julia Grace
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T14:55:59Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T14:55:59Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Cinti Valley is located in southern Bolivia and has been occupied for at least 9,000 years, with an intensification in settlement starting around 800 years ago. The region was first surveyed in the 1990s, and in 1994, two sites, Palca Chica and El Porvenir, were excavated to investigate the chronology of the Cinti Valley. Rivera Casanovas (2004) proposed that the sites in the Cinti valley formed a three-tier site hierarchy, with a capital, local centers like El Porvenir, and small villages like Palca Chica. To study how these processes impacted food and plant use in the Cinti Valley, I sorted 17 flotation samples collected from Palca Chica and 21 from El Porvenir by Rivera Casanovas and Michel (1995). To analyze these samples, I compared the assemblages of Palca Chica and El Porvenir to study the difference between a small village and a local center, finding more local foods such as Trichocereeae (cacti), Portulaca spp., and Amaranthus spp. at El Porvenir and more Andean staple foods like corn and quinoa at Palca Chica. Additionally, to understand how plant use in the Cinti Valley compares to the rest of the Andes, in the highlands and lowlands, I compared the results to those of other Andean paleoethnobotanical studies. I found that the Cinti Valley sites had a much greater focus on local foods than traditional Andean staples compared to the other sites, suggesting that the residents of Palca Chica and El Porvenir developed their own local diets and identities.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/186591
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0004550
dc.identifier.otherSponholtz_alatus_0004M_14986
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/9577
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectAndean archaeology
dc.subjectIdentity
dc.subjectLate Intermediate Period
dc.subjectPaleoethnobotany
dc.titleEating the Valley: a Paleoethnobotanical Investigation of Local Food Use and Identity in the Cinti Valley, Bolivia in the Late Intermediate Perioden_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Anthropology
etdms.degree.disciplineArchaeology
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.levelmaster's
etdms.degree.nameM.A.

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