CLAY HEADS AS NASCA TROPHY HEAD SUBSTITUTES

The so called “heads are characterized trophy” be born represented in ceramics, proceeding from the south coast of Peru, to propose the possible function and meaning that fulfilled from the iconographic representations and comparisons with examples of other parts world. The author suggests that the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Hoffmann, Beatrix
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
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/12690
Acceso en línea:https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/Arqueo/article/view/12690
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cabezas trofeo
iconografía
símbolos
sustitutos
variabilidad.
Heads trophy
iconography
symbols
substitutes
changeability.
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Sumario:The so called “heads are characterized trophy” be born represented in ceramics, proceeding from the south coast of Peru, to propose the possible function and meaning that fulfilled from the iconographic representations and comparisons with examples of other parts world. The author suggests that the heads trophy real and the representations of such heads were important in the world view; it was not necessary to use the first ones to fulfill the above mentioned functions, but symbols were used, you answer in clay and the corresponding paintings in funeral contexts like substitutes of the real ones. This way, since in other parts of the world there appears the complexity and changeability of the related ideas, the function is a difficult comprehension cabalmente and meaning of the heads trophy is born.