U-shaped power: Infantas and the ritual-political nexus of Formative-period monumentality in the Chillón Valley, Perú

Mesía-Montenegro C.; Cornejo-Guerrero M.; Sanchez-Borjas A. · Antiquity (2025) · DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.10140

Resumen

Excavations at the Infantas complex in Chillón Valley, Perú, revealed a U-shaped monumental centre with a central mound, clay staircase and columned atrium. Aligned with structures from the Rímac and Lurín valleys, these complexes anchored ritual-political power, serving as hubs for ideological integration and territorial organisation in early Andean societies. © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Universidad Privada del Norte