Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes : : Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru / / ed. by J. Marla Toyne, Haagen D. Klaus.

• MitwirkendeR: Backo, Heather C.,; Bentley, Sylvia,; Bourget, Steve,; Castillo, Luis Jaime,; Castillo, Samuel,; Chicoine, David,; Fehren-Schmitz, Lars,; Hamilton, Laurel S.,; Klaus, Haagen D.,; Longstaffe, Fred,; Lund, Mellisa,; Millaire, Jean-François,; Millaire, Peru Jean-François,; Phillips, Sara S.,; Saldaña, Fausto,; Shimada, Izumi,; Szpak, Paul,; Tiesler, Vera,; Tomasto-Cagigao, Elsa,; Toyne, J. Marla,; Tung, Tiffiny A.,; Turner, Bethany L.,; Verano, John W.,; Wester, Carlos,; White, Christine,
• HerausgeberIn: Klaus, Haagen D.,; Toyne, J. Marla,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface and acknowledgments
• Chapter one Ritual Violence on the North Coast of Peru: Perspectives and Prospects in the Archaeology of Ancient Andean Sacrifice
• Part one Ancient Ritual Variation and Methodological Advances in Studies of Sacrifice
• Chapter two Ritual Killing, Mutilation, and Dismemberment at Huaca de la Luna: Sharp Force Trauma Among Moche Sacrifice Victims in Plazas 3A and 3C
• Chapter Three The Taphonomy of Ritual Killing on the North Coast of Peru: Perspectives from Huaca de la Luna and Pacatnamú
• chapter four Ritual Strangulation in the Southern Moche World: Mortuary Ligatures as Tools of Liturgical Violation
• Chapter five Bodies and Blood: Middle Sicán Human Sacrifice in the Lambayeque Valley Complex (AD 900–1100)
• Chapter six Precious Gifts: Mortuary Patterns and the Shift from Animal to Human Sacrifice at Santa Rita B in the Middle Chao Valley, Peru
• Chapter seven Human Sacrifice at the Chotuna-Chornancap Archaeological Complex: Traditions and Transformations of Ritual Violence Under Chimú and Inka Rule
• Part two Ancient Identities, Ambiguous Deaths, and Complex Burials
• Chapter eight Life Before Death: A Paleopathological Examination of Human Sacrifice at the Templo de la Piedra Sagrada, Túcume, Peru
• Chapter nine The Killing of Captives on the North Coast of Peru in Pre-Hispanic Times: Iconographic and Bioarchaeological Evidence
• chapter ten 266 Reconsidering Retainers: Identity, Death, and Sacrifice in High-Status Funerary Contexts on the North Coast of Peru
• Chapter eleven Human Sacrifice: A View from San José de Moro
• Part three Continuums of Killing: Sacrifice of Animals and Objects
• Chapter twelve Life Histories of Sacrificed Camelids from Huancaco (Virú Valley)
• Chapter thirteen Posts and Pots: Propitiatory Ritual at Huaca Santa Clara in the Virú Valley,
• Part four Perspectives from Beyond the North Coast of Peru
• Chapter fourteen Practicing and Performing Sacrifice
• Chapter fifteen Mesoamerican Perspectives on the (Bio)archaeology of Andean Ritual Violence
• Reference list
• Index