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    Identity Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Edited by Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer, Nicole Engel and Sean Pickering ei Cs: Arca Perspstives Identity Negotiation during Tiwanaku State Collapse 2008; Stash 2002). The laze enclaves was 300 km aay inthe ure T, The Moquegua Valley and sites mentioned in the text 1nd the provinces (Bandy 2001; Couture and Sampeck 2003; Janusek 2008; 1671) ey Crisis ArchaoogclPespestves on S o Janusek and Kolata 2003; Stanish 2003). In the Moquegua Valley, monumental architecture was destroyed, urban administrative centers abandoned, nd settlement patterns shifted as residents fled state cent inuity i residential architecture and me lar state mosis, operated at 4 series of nested modalities. Regi of Tiwanaku styles are found across the south- central Andes, in Cochabamba, San Pedro de Atacama, and Azapa as Valley (Rodman 1992; Torres-Rouff 2008), Wi of style at different sites suggest that communities 2005; Janusek 2002, 2004). Wi 2, there were 3 eompounds(Janusek 2002), which in tum had distinctions based oage, sex and 30 for Secondly, identity is no simply reflected in mater practice and engagement with that (2002) has argued, rather than just ref culture, but isa Sorensen 2000; were expressed and entrenched though wodifcaton, domestic architecture and idly identity is contextual and dynamic, and as such, i @ topic of particular times of major socio-political change (Banh 1969; Di 1997; Wells 2001). Archaeologists have examined ide (Stojanovski 2008; Voss 2008; Wells 1999). The contrasting 5 ‘complex politica entities disintegrate, ha received comparatively recent examples of state collapse indicate thatthe fagmentation ofthe overarching politcal entity can also have major percussion forthe ways in which communities define themselves {and their members (Zariman 1995). Sates at as sources of common identity, desired or jon in which shared identities rooted sintegeation suggest tha increasingly significant (Bestemnan 1996; his paper Lconsider whether the ‘change inthe relative salience of diferent mod 168] 9c ey Crisis: Artaolgia Perpetives on ‘A Mortuary Approach but are important joyce 2001; Wil practice and engagement ure is a point already rature (lanusek 2002). Drawing on Joyee’s (2001) idea that itis 5 gain greater or lesser currency I suggest that burials were (Figure 1) have ensured better preservation of burial nd I examine funerary pattems from two Moquegua Valley sites, Chen Chen and Tumilacala Chiba, (Chen Chen was the largest ofthe ianaky 997; Palacios 2008; Pari joarchaeological and strontium isotope rom Chen Chen demonstrated the presence att Floces etal. 2002; studies on some of the thousands of ‘of immigrants fo 7 excavated Under the dirceton of R ‘excavated by Bruce leemetery sectors, Ragiocarbon dates are forthcoming, chronology and with nei the disintegration ofthe ‘Tumilaca la Chimba were biological buried at Tu 2010). Sixty-four burials were excavated and analyzed, although the js higher than in the Chen Chen samp, at about 30%, ‘Chen Chen ‘denity at Chen Chen is evident i eross-site pattems of funerary teatment ls were buried in single femnmiens, ina seated, flexed position, facing east Corpses were wrapped in position by a braided fiber rope, and were sceompanied by a recog rial goods. The range of grave inclusions at Chen 169} is (is: Arshacolgial Paspetvs un Sa ‘Chen was extensive, but ceramie vessels were most common, particularly eros (vase shaped drinking vessels) an ided bowls). so common were wooden spoons bashes, meray rituals across the sit. These rituals ry teatmens both at other Tiwanaku sites in the Moquegua Valley and inthe lao heartland and served to assert and reinforce identification withthe wide ‘Tivanaku realm (Bermann 1994; Goldstein 1989, 2005; Janusek 2004a: Korpisaai 2006). Corporate Group Identity Burials at Chen Che ly separate sectors, including biological males, females and dual, These sectors have been interpreted as representative of re distinguished during life by neighborhood proximity and While the physical separation of cemeteries nerary behavior between the sector is iment, and grave inclusions ies likely represents itra-communty practiced by these comporate socal her than emphasizing diference. Individual Idemty ‘AtChen Chen ording 0 their age ued in adult male or juvenile Tumilaca ta Chimba Community Identiey General pattems of mortuary treatment at Tumilaca la Chimba were very similar to those at Chen Chen. The dead were buried ina similar range of tomb types, bu iomb architecture nas more

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