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Journal of Social Archaeology, 2010
Recent studies exploring social memory have led to a growing literature on the ‘archaeology of memory’ that examines the ways material culture is deployed to make cultural statements about the past by modern, historic, and prehistoric societies. Nonetheless, the archaeology of memory encounters significant theoretical problems and terminological ...
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Recent studies exploring social memory have led to a growing literature on the ‘archaeology of memory’ that examines the ways material culture is deployed to make cultural statements about the past by modern, historic, and prehistoric societies. Nonetheless, the archaeology of memory encounters significant theoretical problems and terminological ...
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2014
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Land Obsessed with Confessions or, The Historians' Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists 2. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities 3. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists 4.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Land Obsessed with Confessions or, The Historians' Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists 2. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities 3. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists 4.
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2019
Pre-Columbian sacred sites are complex phenomena that present a distinct challenge to rationalism. Accordingly, huaca and other Quechua concepts concerning the sacred not only provide alternative keys to the interpretation of Andean sites of Inca date, but may also be usefully applied to earlier sites that lie beyond the Andes proper.
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Pre-Columbian sacred sites are complex phenomena that present a distinct challenge to rationalism. Accordingly, huaca and other Quechua concepts concerning the sacred not only provide alternative keys to the interpretation of Andean sites of Inca date, but may also be usefully applied to earlier sites that lie beyond the Andes proper.
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Ñawpa Pacha, 2014
Huaca Dos Cabezas is an enormous Moche structure on the north coast of Peru. Although it was heavily eroded by both wind and water after its abandonment ca. 650 C.E., and was extensively damaged by massive looting that took place during the early Colonial Period, archaeological and iconographic evidence make it possible to reconstruct its size, form ...
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Huaca Dos Cabezas is an enormous Moche structure on the north coast of Peru. Although it was heavily eroded by both wind and water after its abandonment ca. 650 C.E., and was extensively damaged by massive looting that took place during the early Colonial Period, archaeological and iconographic evidence make it possible to reconstruct its size, form ...
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The Astronomy of Peruvian Huacas
2011The Incas honored and venerated many features of both natural and man-made landscapes that they felt to be endowed with superhuman powers. In Quechua these shrines were known as huacas, and at the time of the Spanish conquest there were thousands of them.
Steven Gullberg, J. McKim Malville
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The Rediscovery of Huaca Pintada
This Element presents a case study of the authors' partnership with the Pintada community in their excavation of a pre-Columbian site known as 'Huaca Pintada', a pyramidal mound located in the Lambayeque region on the north coast of Peru. The site, which gained recognition after the fortuitous discovery by looters in 1916 of an exceptional polychrome ...Sâm Ghavami, Christian Cancho Ruiz
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