“The Dead Do Not Leave”: LH Funerary Behaviors in Pueblo Viejo Pucara

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Pueblo Viejo-Pucara, main settlement of mitmaqunas, Caringas de Huarochiri, is one of the emblematic cases of funerary behaviors involving the construction and use of open chambers. In most of the cases studied, the two-story structures of 1 m high each story, which fulfill the original function of storage rooms in each modular residential unit, are adapted for funerary purposes. The chambers of both floors are accessible through small square windows. The funerary structures directly adjoin the living spaces in use. The settlement, located on the hills of Manzano and Pucara, on the left bank of the Lurin River, was intensively excavated by the PUCP team between 1999 and 2012. The paper presents the results of the reconstruction of the funerary behaviors of burial, reburial, and complex taphonomic processes after burial.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond the Ancestors: New Approaches to Andean "Open Sepulchers"   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39405.0