Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South AmericaArchaeopress, 2001 - 143 páginas This volume has its origins in a symposium on South American Prehistory that took place at the Chicago 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1999. The 11 papers here reveal a pre-Hispanic world rich in metaphor and symbolism relating human beings to their origins and ancestral past, the wider natural world and their place within it. The shamanic world is one wherein symbols and symbolic behaviour are actively employed in mediating with the 'Otherworld' and its visionary inhabitants. The sites visited include Macchu Picchu, the Moche Mountains, and Coastal Ecuador. |
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... crania and long - bones , with latter orientated approxmately E - W and underlying context [ 205 ] . Field notes report finding 3 crania , but analysis suggests 4 adults , together with a child under five and an infant of a few weeks or ...
... crania and long - bones , with latter orientated approxmately E - W and underlying context [ 205 ] . Field notes report finding 3 crania , but analysis suggests 4 adults , together with a child under five and an infant of a few weeks or ...
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... crania and long bones of two adult males , possibly one other unsexed adult and a child of about 12 years of age . The primary and tightly flexed inhumation of an adult male , placed as though originally in an upright sitting position ...
... crania and long bones of two adult males , possibly one other unsexed adult and a child of about 12 years of age . The primary and tightly flexed inhumation of an adult male , placed as though originally in an upright sitting position ...
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... crania with long bones towards the pit centre ( contexts 205 , 211 and 234 ) . The latest in the sequence appear to be the two partial cremations ( contexts 203 and 204 ) and the three groups of displaced crania , two of them burnt , at ...
... crania with long bones towards the pit centre ( contexts 205 , 211 and 234 ) . The latest in the sequence appear to be the two partial cremations ( contexts 203 and 204 ) and the three groups of displaced crania , two of them burnt , at ...
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Shamanic Cosmology Embodied in Valdivia VIIVIII Mortuary Contexts from the Site | 19 |
Fruitful Death The Symbolic Meanings of Cucurbits in the Late Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador | 37 |
Making Spiritual Contact Snuff Tubes and Other Mortuary Objects from Coastal Ecuador | 51 |
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