Analysis of animal bones in Panquilma and their relation with domestic and ritual spaces

Summary

During Late periods, the use of domestic animals as camelids and guinea pigs were part of a fiscalized economic system which allowed a better management of faunal resource for consumption. These animal species also had a symbolic meaning in the Andean cosmovision that led them to be used in ritual spaces, along with another animals as canids, amphibians, deers, birds and felines. In this study we showed the results of the analysis made on the bone assemblage recovered from the site of Panquilma. We recorded the principal modifications, whether they are cultural as cut marks and termic alterations, or natural as taphonomic processes. After being evaluated and discussed, these characteristics showed a tentative pattern of animal utilization, where the camelids and guinea pigs appear as well as domestic and ritual spaces, while canids and amphibians are exclusively related to ritual and symbolic spaces.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Consumption patterns and funerary rituals at the site of Panquilma, Lurin Valley, Peruvian Central Coast

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