Memory and Resilience after the Collapse of the Wari Empire: Analysis from the Remains of Home and Funerary Contexts

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

During the last 5 years a team of researchers from the National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga has been carrying out archaeological research in the sectors of Vegachayuq Moqo, Capillapata, Chupapata, and Cerro San Cristobal in the capital of the Wari Empire. The results obtained show an occupation sequence from the Huarpa period (emergence of the empire) to the collapse of the Wari civilization, unveiling different types of architecture associated with cultural materials that has allowed definition of the functionality and abandonment processes. The finding of collective burials inside funeral chambers, in graves dug at a shallow depth, as well as within architectural spaces of the Wari era (mausoleums) have been increasing during the last field seasons. These burials do not correspond to the Wari era, but to a later period linked to the cultural manifestations of the Late Intermediate period that in the region of the southern highlands, are known as the Chankas.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24481