Pre-Columbian weaving toolsets from the San Francisco cemetery in the Yauca valley on the Peruvian southern coast

Jakub Wanot; Józef Szykulski; Luis Héctor Díaz Rodríguez; Paulina Kaczyńska; Martyna Wróbel

doi:10.23858/PA73.2025.3871

Autor

Jakub Wanot Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, ul. Szewska 48, 50-139 Wrocław https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8930-2934
Józef Szykulski Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, ul. Szewska 48, 50-139 Wrocław https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0658-4217
Luis Héctor Díaz Rodríguez Universidad Católica de Santa María, Urb. San José s/n, Umacollo, Arequipa, Peru https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8119-8238
Paulina Kaczyńska Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, ul. Szewska 48, 50-139 Wrocław https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5873-9309
Martyna Wróbel Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, ul. Szewska 48, 50-139 Wrocław https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7396-0650

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23858/PA73.2025.3871

Słowa kluczowe:

weaving toolsets, workbaskets, spinning, Acarí culture, Inca, Yauca Valley, Southern Coast of Peru, Pre-Columbian textiles

Abstrakt

Weaving is undoubtedly a hallmark of the Pre-Columbian societies that occupied the Andean region, reflected in the varied roles of textiles based on their characteristics as objects for clothing, funeral offerings, and vehicles for the transmission of ideas, ethnic differentiation or status indicators. Many textiles excavated in Peru – deposited without access of humidity, light, and oxygen – are still in excellent condition. Analyses of specimens of weaving from the archaeological sites in the Yauca Valley confirm a relatively high level of textile production and the proficiency of local craftsmen. The paper discusses the results of analyses of the weaving workbaskets and their equipment – sometimes precisely crafted and elaborately decorated – belonging to the textile manufacturers buried within the San Francisco cemetery (Caravelí Province) in the Yauca Valley. Although often colloquially referred to as weavers’ workbaskets, the materials and implements found within them are also associated with other stages of textile production, such as spinning, sewing, and embroidery. Radiocarbon dating allowed determination of the chronology of these materials to the 15^th and 16^thcenturies, i.e. the Late Horizon in the Central Andean chronology.

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