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The Casma City of El Purgatorio: Ancient Urbanism in the Andes (Ancient Cities of the New World)

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“Defines the Casma culture and demonstrates its importance in late Andean prehistory for the north coast of Peru. Vogel’s pioneering work at El Purgatorio sets the stage for anticipated future studies.”—Thomas Pozorski, University of Texas-Pan American
 
“This detailed study fills a big gap in coastal Andean prehistory at the same time as also addressing broader issues of ancient urbanism and the variability of urban forms in pre-industrial societies.”—Daniel H. Sandweiss, University of Maine
 
The Casma state, which flourished at the north coast of Peru in the centuries before European contact, is crucial and vastly understudied ancient culture. Its capital city, El Purgatorio, used to be inhabited from ca. 700–1400 AD. The upward push and fall of El Purgatorio spans a period of dynamic transition in Andean history but has rarely been mentioned in previous research.
           
Melissa Vogel investigates this extensive, monumental urban website in The Casma City of El Purgatorio. The use of the city’s architecture and spatial organization, its rituals, religion, and mortuary practices, its political economy, and other material evidence, she describes the people who lived there. A culmination of Vogel’s sixteen-year study of the Casma culture, this book demonstrates how ancient cities lend a hand us have in mind the development and collapse of complex societies.
 

 
A volume in the series Ancient Cities of the New World, edited by Michael E. Smith, Marilyn A. Masson, and John W. Janusek
 
 

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