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Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice [PDF]
BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 This study will focus on frozen mummies of sacrificial victims from mounts Llullaillaco (6739 m), Quehuar (6130 m), El Toro (6160 m), and the Aconcagua massif. These finds provide bioarchaeological data from mountaintop sites that has been recovered in scientifically controlled excavations in the northwest of Argentina, which was once part of the ...
Maria Constanza Ceruti +1 more
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Environmental risk management: A participatory diagnosis from a rural school in Colombia [PDF]
Jàmbá, 2023 The rural population is potentially exposed to several environmental risks. Environmental risk management is a recurring challenge in rural educational communities that are far from large urban areas. Assessing and identifying the knowledge on prevention
Carolina Moncayo +6 more
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The cosmology of Inca huacas [PDF]
, 2009 The 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.
Gullberg, Steven Roland
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Catálogo descriptivo e ilustrado de las Huacas de Chañar-Yaco [Provincia de Catamarca]
Revista del Museo de La PlataLas Huacas ó yacimientos en que se hallaron los objetos que se detallan en seguida, están como á una legua al Este de la cuesta que separa los campos del Fuerte de Andalgalá de los de Belén, al Sud del Camino del Zanjón.
Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo
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El uso del fuego en el complejo arqueológico de las huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Perú. Un primer ensayo de tipología de las áreas de combustión [PDF]
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2015 Little attention has been given to the study of combustion structures in the Prehispanic urban sites of the Central Andes. Our study focused on a sample of the combustion areas registered during the 20 years of research at Huacas del Sol y de la Luna ...
Feren Castillo Luján +2 more
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Fotolibro “Huacas Urbanas” [PDF]
, 2020 Photography has gone through many artistic movements and different authors. One of these is the documentary photography that aspires to picture reality as it is, nonetheless, it' s full of different submovements. Having this in mind, taking values from the movement, Huacas Urbanas is born.
Saurre Luna Victoria, David Alonso
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Estudios Atacameños, 2009 A través de la articulación de fuentes coloniales tempranas con los registros arqueológicos y etnográficos locales, hemos identificado varios cerros sacralizados y huacas prehispánicas de las regiones de Potosí y Chuquisaca (Bolivia).
Pablo Cruz
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Of Humans and Huacas: Sacrifice and Ontology at Huaca de la Luna
, 2019 The subject of this thesis is the staging of ritual sacrifice among the Moche at the ceremonial complex of Huaca de la Luna, Huacas de Moche, during (Plaza 3a) and prior (Plaza 3c) to the climatic crisis of 650 AD. The aim of this thesis is to frame these sacrificial activities and the ceremonial complex itself to a historical and contemporary Andean ...
Utaaker, Sveinung
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 771-786, July/August 2023., 2023 Abstract Relatively little attention has been paid to the importance of birds as alternative food sources and as ceremonial offerings in Moche practices. I examine bird remains from the Late Moche (600–900 CE) site of Huaca Colorada of the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, to investigate the role of birds in daily activities and their use in ritual events ...
Aleksa K. Alaica
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 506-516, May/June 2023., 2023 Abstract Stable isotope analysis of ancient bone collagen is a powerful technique for studying diet, migration, and ecology in archeological contexts. These analyses are, however, limited by collagen preservation and prohibitively low collagen yields. Harsh chemical demineralization is required to isolate the collagen from the mineral component of the ...
Tess Wilson, Paul Szpak
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