Victor M Ponte

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Anthropology, Graduate Student

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Complex societies, settlement, and mortuary patterns in the north-central highlands of Peru. Development of chiefdom-like communities in montane environments. Rock art manifestations, prehistoric ceramics, metallurgy, and human adaptations in high altitude ecosystems.

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Shonquilpampa: Camelid Pictographs of the Cordillera Blanca, Perú

Ñawpa Pacha

Resumen Shonquilpampa es uno de los numerosos estrechos valles glaciales que atraviesan la Cordil... more Resumen Shonquilpampa es uno de los numerosos estrechos valles glaciales que atraviesan la Cordillera Blanca, en los Andes centrales del norte del Perú. En el piso del valle y sus laderas se encuentran diseminados inmensos peñones de granodiorita; algunos de los cuales han sido prolíficamente pintados con figuras de camélidos por sociedades del Arcaico y post-Arcaico. Los motivos muestran bandas de cazadores portando armas, mientras que otros exhiben figuras estáticas de rebaños que pueden ser relacionadas a los inicios del pastoreo. La figura central de ciertos paneles es la pictografía en rojo de un camélido silvestre de grandes dimensiones, mientras que los humanos son representados en proporciones menores, pasando desapercibidos o mezclados en el rebaño. Se sugiere que las pictografías pueden ilustrar el paso de la caza a la domesticación de camélidos en las altas montañas del departamento de Ancash.

Regional Perspective of Recuay Mortuary Practices: A View from the Hinterlands, Callejón de Huaylas, Peru

Archaeological investigations of burial chambers in the north-central highlands of Peru constitut... more Archaeological investigations of burial chambers in the north-central highlands of Peru constitute the corpus of this thesis. Most of the stone structures correspond chronologically and culturally to the Recuay Tradition, a time span of 100 to 800 CE. The study area is located in the Cordillera Negra of the Callejón de Huaylas basin (Ancash Department). CRM projects developed in the impact zone of the Pierina mine have contributed valuable information on the mortuary practices of a Recuay agro-pastoral community. This thesis relied on grave goods inventories, osteological analysis, and types of stone architecture in the burial chamber. Data from this community is compared to a sample from the Cordillera Blanca, situated at the eastern side of the Callejón de Huaylas. While the Cordillera Blanca tombs show evidence of high quality tomb construction and grave goods associated with chiefly groups, the Cordillera Negra tombs do not. This thesis investigates the possible explanations of the differences. After 700 CE, both areas suffered transformations with the intrusive presence of Wari-related materials and the increase of interregional interaction. At the same time, cultural change occurred in tomb construction to above-ground mausoleums (chullpas). Since the pioneering studies of J.C. Tello (1929) and W.C. Bennett (1944), no other study of Recuay burial practices has been carried out at regional scale. Basic information per burial chamber reaffirm mortuary customs in the area, and help to define the characteristics of Recuay funerary practices.

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