A late pre-Hispanic ceramic chronology for the upper Moquegua Valley, Peru

This report offers a ceramic sequence for the late pre-Hispanic periods of the Moquegua Valley in southern Peru. The sequence is based on excavation and survey data from 17 sites in the Otora Valley, the northernmost tributary of the Osmore (Moquegua) Drainage. Five pre-Hispanic periods have been defined beginning at approximately A.D. 900 and continuing on to the Late Horizon (ca. 1475). The principal ceramic types for each phase are presented in this report.