Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reenvisioning Wari / Justin Jennings -- Wari in Arequipa / Justin Jennings and David A. Reid -- Making Quilcapampa : Trails, Petroglyphs, and the Creation of a Moving Place / Stephen Berquist, Felipe Gonzalez-Macqueen, and Justin Jennings -- Settling Quilcapampa : Plan and Adaptation / Luis Manuel González La Rosa, Justin Jennings, Giles Spence-Morrow, and Willy Yépez Álvarez -- Living at Quilcapampa : Brief Occupation and Orderly Abandonment / Justin Jennings, Branden Rizzuto, and Willy Yépez Álvarez -- Quilcapampa's Ceramics : Imperial Styles and Local Traditions / Oscar Huamán López, Justin Jennings, and Willy Yépez Álvarez -- Quilcapampa's Stone Tools and Placas Pintadas / Branden Rizzuto and Justin Jennings -- Plant Use at Quilcapampa / Matthew E. Biwer and Mallory A. Melton -- Vertebrate and Invertebrate Remains at Quilcapampa / Aleksa K. Alaica, Patricia Quiñonez Cuzcano, and Luis Manuel González La Rosa.

Abstract
In the ninth century AD, settlers from the heartland of the Wari Empire founded Quilcapampa, a short-lived site overlooking the Sihuas River in southern Peru. The contributors to this volume present excavation and survey data from in and around Quilcapampa that challenge long-held models of both Wari statecraft and the mechanisms that engendered the widespread societal changes of the era. Quilcapampa and other peripheral Wari settlements have generally been seen as local administrative centers that siphoned resources from conquered regions to the Wari capital. This volume demonstrates that Quilcapampa was likely founded not by Wari officials but by families looking for a new home amid the turmoil caused by increasing Wari political centralization. Botanical, faunal, ceramic, lithic, and other data sets are used to reconstruct lifeways at the site and show how the settlers interacted with others locally and across greater distances. Featuring extensive illustrations in the print edition and multimedia components in the digital edition, this book offers an abundance of archaeological data on the site as well as new theoretical considerations of Wari expansion, laying the foundation for a better understanding of how Andean political economy and social complexity changed over time. Provided by publisher.