The Incised and the Slipped: Tracking the Tempo of Northern and Southern Titicaca Basin, Formative Ceramic Styles

RODDICK, ANDREW P.; MARSH, ERIK J.; HASTORF, CHRISTINE A; KLARICH, ELIZABETH

Berkeley

Congreso; 60th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies; 2020

Institute of Andean Studies

This paper proposes refinements to the chronology of Formative decorated ceramics in the Lake Titicacabasin. We summarize the results, currently in press, of Bayesian models from eight Late Formative centersin the southern Lake Titicaca basin. We extend this chronology with two new Bayesian models of MiddleFormative ceramics from Chiripa in the south and four sites with Pukara ceramics in the north. Thesimilar incised styles and closely aligned chronologies lead us to explore the possibility that decoratingpractices or even potting communities may have alternated between the north and south during theFormative.