Taraco Archaeological Project Report on 2003 Excavations at Kala Uyuni
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UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility Stahl Reports Title Taraco Archaeological Project Report on 2003 Excavations at Kala Uyuni Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d35b0ns Authors Bandy, Matthew Hastorf, Christine A. Steadman, Lee et al. Publication Date 2004-05-18 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California ¢¡¤£¥¡§¦§¨ © £ ¦ ¡¨¨¤¦¡£ ¨¦ !"¨#£¥ $¨&%(')§)* +¢,¦¡.-/¡ 0¨1%/23¡ 54#¡¡ 617¢8¤% Matthew Bandy, Christine Hastorf, Lee Steadman Katherine Moore, Melissa Goodman Elgar, William Whitehead Jose Luis Paz, Amanda Cohen, Maria Bruno, Andrew Roddick, Kirk Frye, Maria Soledad Fernadez, Jose Capriles Flores, Mary Leighton Report submitted to the Unidad Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia May 18, 2004 1 9;:=<>@?BADCFE&AGDHI?=GDH¥J 1.Kala Uyuni: An Early Political Center in the Southern Titicaca Basin......................5 Taraco Peninsula Culture History.............................................................................6 The Taraco Peninsula Polity.....................................................................................8 Kala Uyuni................................................................................................................9 This Volume............................................................................................................11 2.Mapping, Photography, Database ............................................................................13 Mapping..................................................................................................................13 Methodology......................................................................................................13 Results................................................................................................................14 Database..................................................................................................................15 Methodology and Design...................................................................................15 Implementation...................................................................................................16 Results................................................................................................................16 Photography............................................................................................................16 3.Excavations in the AQ (Ayrampu Qontu) Sector ....................................................18 4.Excavaciones en el Sector KU (Kala Uyuni)............................................................21 Descripción de los Hallazgos..................................................................................22 N830/E650.........................................................................................................22 N890/E653.........................................................................................................24 Conclusiones...........................................................................................................28 5.Additional Excavations in the KU Area – N894/E639.............................................34 6.Excavations in the AC (Achachi Coa Kkollu) Sector ..............................................38 Excavation of ASD-1: The Lower Court:...............................................................40 South Wall (Units N964.37/E923.91 and N962/E928)......................................40 North Wall (Units N980.4/E928.18 and N979/E935):.......................................41 East Wall and Burial #3 (Unit N972/ E933) .....................................................44 West Wall (Units N975/ E917 and N975/E 916)...............................................45 Inside ASD-1: ........................................................................................................46 Unit N973.6/E928.11 and Unit N968/E921.......................................................46 Unit N968/ E921............................................................................................46 Excavation of ASD-3: The Upper Court.................................................................48 West Wall (N1000/E947)...................................................................................48 North Wall (N1001/E955)..................................................................................50 South Wall (Unit N984/E955)............................................................................51 East Wall (N991/E959)......................................................................................53 Center Unit (N993/E952.5)................................................................................54 Excavation of the Midden: 2 Units N990/E968 and N979/E957..........................................................................57 Discussion...............................................................................................................57 Concluding Remarks...............................................................................................59 7.Ceramic Analysis......................................................................................................60 Early Chiripa...........................................................................................................61 Middle Chiripa .......................................................................................................62 Late Chiripa.............................................................................................................65 Tiwanaku I..............................................................................................................74 8.Archaeobotany..........................................................................................................80 In the field...............................................................................................................80 In the laboratory......................................................................................................82 9.Animal Remains from the 2003 Season...................................................................83 Research Approaches for Kala Uyuni Bone ..........................................................84 10.Microstratigraphy and Soils Analysis.....................................................................86 Introduction.............................................................................................................86 Methods...................................................................................................................86 Natural Reference Samples (N1, N2)......................................................................87 Excavations.............................................................................................................88 Kala Uyuni Area (KU).......................................................................................88 Achachi Coa Collu Area (AC)...........................................................................89 Ayrampu Qontu Area (AQ)................................................................................91 Ethnoarchaeological Study.....................................................................................92 Case Study in the Copralabra Pata Area (CP)....................................................93 Methods..............................................................................................................93 Summary.................................................................................................................94 11.Acknowledgements.................................................................................................96 12.Bibliography...........................................................................................................97 KLNM O§PQ?.J Figure 1: Map of the Taraco Peninsula..........................................................................6 Figure 2: Chronological chart........................................................................................7 Figure 3: Contour Map of Coa Kkollu........................................................................13 Figure 4: TAP Database Schema.................................................................................15 Figure 5: Map of AQ and KU areas.............................................................................18 Figure 6: AQ North Profile..........................................................................................19 Figure 7: Area AQ Harris Matrix................................................................................20 Figure 8: Map of AQ and KU areas.............................................................................21 Figure 9: Profile of N830/E650...................................................................................22 Figure 10: Plan of ASD-2 Structure............................................................................23 Figure 11: Annotated photo of ASD-2 structure from West.......................................24 3 Figure 12: Color-coded Harris Matrix of KU excavations..........................................25 Figure 13: Complete KU Harris Matrix.......................................................................26 Figure 14: N894/E639 North profile...........................................................................35 Figure 15: KUAC sunken courts and excavation units................................................38 Figure