BONE CUTTING, PLACEMENT, AND CANNIBALISM?: MIDDLE PRECERAMIC MORTUARY PATTERNS OF NANCHOC, NORTHERN PERU

dc.creator	Rossen,Jack
dc.creator	Dillehay,Tom D.
dc.date	2001-01-01
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-05T02:59:28Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-05T02:59:28Z
dc.identifier	https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-73562001000100010
dc.identifier.uri	https://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/150814
dc.description	Mortuary practices of the Middle Preceramic period (ca. 8500-4000 B.P.) are discussed for the Nanchoc region of the upper Zaña Valley, northern Peru. Careful breaking, cutting, and placement of human bones from adult males during the Las Pircas Phase (8500-6000 B.P. ) gave way to more haphazard breakage and discard during the subsequent Tierra Blanca Phase (6000-5000 B.P.). The evidence of cannibalism is considered. Bone breakage, cutting, and possibly cannibalism is believed to have been part of a broader process of ritualization that mitigated the spiritual danger of the transition from hunting-gathering to horticulture
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dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidad de Tarapacá. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Departamento de Antropología
dc.relation	10.4067/S0717-73562001000100010
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source	Chungará (Arica) v.33 n.1 2001
dc.subject	Preceramic
dc.subject	mortuary practices
dc.subject	Nanchoc
dc.subject	Zaña Valley
dc.subject	cannibalism
dc.title	BONE CUTTING, PLACEMENT, AND CANNIBALISM?: MIDDLE PRECERAMIC MORTUARY PATTERNS OF NANCHOC, NORTHERN PERU