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4 Community Labor and Laboring Communities within the Tiwanaku State (C.E. 500–1100)
Author(s) -
Becker Sara K.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
archeological papers of the american anthropological association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1551-8248
pISSN - 1551-823X
DOI - 10.1111/apaa.12087
Subject(s) - guild , state (computer science) , geography , work (physics) , reciprocal , socioeconomics , demographic economics , political science , ethnology , sociology , ecology , economics , biology , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , habitat , computer science , algorithm
Understanding how work was managed and who participated in state‐level societies can help elucidate daily activities as well as community development within an emerging complex society. Tiwanaku, with multiethnic neighborhoods in the Titicaca Basin, Bolivia and colonies near present‐day Moquegua, Peru, provides a comparison of labor between groups. Specific skeletal evidence of activity (i.e., musculoskeletal stress markers and osteoarthritis) was evaluated to infer how habitual activity varied within this state. Labor rates show that laborers did not work at the behest of elites and results suggest instead, that people worked as reciprocal laborers in a guild‐like system.