ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses storage structures, stamp and cylinder seals, and other emblems of bureaucratic power. It describes the complex polity that occupied the Casma Valley of Peru during the Initial Period. This chapter provides details about storage structures and especially their modular architectural form. The Sechin Alto Polity occupied the Casma Valley area for about four hundred years and encompassed both branches of the Casma River and the adjacent coastal zone. The site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke that dominates the southern, Casma branch of the river. The main mound at Taukachi-Konkan was the likely palace of the polity ruler, while the main Sechin Alto mound housed both secular administrative areas and a sacred precinct. Excavations have been conducted by other investigators at the Sechin Alto Complex sites of Cerro Sechin and Sechin Bajo where square-room units and variant forms are also present. Squareroom-unit modules identical to examples at Huaca A have been cleared by Peter Fuchs at Sechin Bajo.
