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Two views of a fancy Chakipampa giant jar from ceramic offering 2000b, excavated at Conchopata. This vessel represents the first of two modes for face-neck human effigy jars found in the 2000b smashed offering. It is best dated as stylistically later than the jars from EA-205 and EA-208 and is assigned to Middle Horizon 1b, probably between AD 750 and 775. However, these ceramics predate the appearance of SAIS iconography at Conchopata (see Haeberli's discussion of the "Incursion," this volume).