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Violence, ritual, and the Wari Empire : a social bioarchaeology of imperialism in the Ancient Andes
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ISBN: 9780813037677 0813037670 Year: 2012 Publisher: Gainseville: University Press of Florida,

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The Wari Empire that thrived in the Peruvian Andes between AD 600 and AD 1000 was one of the first politically centralized civilizations in the New World to expand dramatically as a product of economic and military might. This study of human skeletons reveals the biological and social impact of Wari imperialism on people's lives, particularly its effects on community organization and frequency violence among both ruling elites and subjects. Tiffiny Tung reveals that Wari political and military leaders promoted and valorized aggressive actions, such as the adbuction of men, women, and children from foreign settlements. Captive men and children were sacrificed, dismembered, and transformed into trophy heads, while non-local women received different treatment relative to the men and children. By inspecting bioarchaeological, isotopic, and limited ancient DNA data from skeletons, along with the archaeological evidence, Tung provides a more refined understanding of how Wari imperial policies and practices affected human communities, particularly in terms of age/sex structure, mortuary treatment, use of violence, and ritual processes associated with power and bodies.


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La Galgada, Peru : a preceramic culture in transition
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ISBN: 0292746474 9780292746473 0292741065 1477300872 Year: 1988 Publisher: Austin: University of Texas press,


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New technologies for archaeology : multidisciplinary investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru
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ISBN: 3642099548 3540874372 9786612006593 1282006592 3540874380 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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Gives an overview of developments in archaeometry. This work presents a detailed history of human development as well as its interaction with natural environment in the Nasca region, based on South America's detailed numeric archaeochronology.

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Archaeological geology --Peru. --- Archaeology --Methodology. --- Archaeology --Peru. --- Archaeometry --Peru. --- Archaeometry. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --Peru. --- Nazca (Peru : Province) --Antiquities. --- Palpa Region (Ica, Peru) --Antiquities. --- Peru --Antiquities. --- Archaeometry --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological geology --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Methodology --- Research. --- Methodology. --- Science --- Science research --- Scientific research --- Research --- Social sciences. --- Paleontology. --- Geophysics. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Life sciences. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Information services --- Learning and scholarship --- Research teams --- Paleontology . --- Physical geography. --- Geography --- Human beings --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Nazca (Peru : Province) --- Palpa Region (Ica, Peru) --- Peru --- Antiquities. --- Nasca (Peru : Province) --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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