Ritual sacrifice in ancient Peru
The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices
Print Book, English, 2001
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2001
xii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780292708938, 9780292708945, 0292708939, 0292708947
45172983
Why sacrifice? / Elizabeth P. Benson
Decapitation in Cupisnique and early Moche societies / Alana Cordy-Collins
Blood and the moon priestesses : spondylus shells in Moche ceremony / Alana Cordy-Collins
Blood, fertility, and transformation : interwoven themes in the Paracas necropolis embroideries / Mary Frame
Children and ancestors : ritual practices and the Moche site of Huaca de la Luna, North Coast of Peru / Steve Bourget
Ritual uses of trophy heads in ancient Nasca society / Donald A. Proulx
Huari D-shaped structures, sacrificial offerings and divine rulership / Anita G. Cook
The physical evidence of human sacrifice in ancient Peru / John W. Verano
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