FUNERALS AND OFFERINGS: A CEMETERY IN NASCA TIMES IN THE AJA VALLEY, PERU
The present report describes the recent findings of a pre-Hispanic cemetery in times Nasca, in the archaeological site of El Trigal, located in the valley of Aja (Nasca, Peru). The social materiality recovered indicates a chronological connection to the denominated period Early Nasca (50/100-350/400...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Perú |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos |
| Repositorio: | Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/12356 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/Arqueo/article/view/12356 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Prácticas funerarias asimetría social cabeza-trofeo violencia. Funerary practices social asymmetry trophy head violence. |
| Sumario: | The present report describes the recent findings of a pre-Hispanic cemetery in times Nasca, in the archaeological site of El Trigal, located in the valley of Aja (Nasca, Peru). The social materiality recovered indicates a chronological connection to the denominated period Early Nasca (50/100-350/400 AD). The archaeological registries document a singularity of funeral contexts, from a scarcity of grave goods to findings of dismembered bodies, with evidence of aggression with a weapon and a severed head. They are joined by the discovery of pottery vessels, deposits, hotplates and postholes adjacent to the burials, which indicate their possible association with political-ideological practices (rituals) and/or economic. These findings suggest a reading of asymmetrical relations policy and the exercise of physical violence in Nasca period. |
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