Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco

Autores
Ceruti, Maria Constanza
Año de publicación
2015
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inglés
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Five centuries ago, the highest Andean mountains were climbed by Inca priests for the ritual performance of sacrifices, and the subsequent burial of human victims and associated offering assemblages. Spanish chroniclers wrote about the ceremonies of Capacocha during which young women and children–usually the sons and daughters of local rulers– were offered to the imperial deities together with a diverse assortment of symbolic items, such as gold and silver figurines, shell necklaces, high quality textiles, pottery, food, and firewood, for the good fortune of a recently crowned Inca emperor, and to ensure the fertility of the crops and llamas. In this paper I discuss the assemblages of offerings associated with the three frozen Inca mummies discovered during archaeological research conducted by Johan Reinhard and myself on the summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano in northwestern Argentina. By correlating the archaeological evidence with the historical sources, interpretations will be presented regarding the role of mortuary offering assemblages associated with Inca mummies on sacred Andean peaks.
Fil: Ceruti, Maria Constanza. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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Inca
Offerings
Mount Llullaillaco
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
title Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
spellingShingle Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
Ceruti, Maria Constanza
Inca
Offerings
Mount Llullaillaco
title_short Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
title_full Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
title_fullStr Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
title_full_unstemmed Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
title_sort Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ceruti, Maria Constanza
author Ceruti, Maria Constanza
author_facet Ceruti, Maria Constanza
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Inca
Offerings
Mount Llullaillaco
topic Inca
Offerings
Mount Llullaillaco
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Five centuries ago, the highest Andean mountains were climbed by Inca priests for the ritual performance of sacrifices, and the subsequent burial of human victims and associated offering assemblages. Spanish chroniclers wrote about the ceremonies of Capacocha during which young women and children–usually the sons and daughters of local rulers– were offered to the imperial deities together with a diverse assortment of symbolic items, such as gold and silver figurines, shell necklaces, high quality textiles, pottery, food, and firewood, for the good fortune of a recently crowned Inca emperor, and to ensure the fertility of the crops and llamas. In this paper I discuss the assemblages of offerings associated with the three frozen Inca mummies discovered during archaeological research conducted by Johan Reinhard and myself on the summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano in northwestern Argentina. By correlating the archaeological evidence with the historical sources, interpretations will be presented regarding the role of mortuary offering assemblages associated with Inca mummies on sacred Andean peaks.
Fil: Ceruti, Maria Constanza. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description Five centuries ago, the highest Andean mountains were climbed by Inca priests for the ritual performance of sacrifices, and the subsequent burial of human victims and associated offering assemblages. Spanish chroniclers wrote about the ceremonies of Capacocha during which young women and children–usually the sons and daughters of local rulers– were offered to the imperial deities together with a diverse assortment of symbolic items, such as gold and silver figurines, shell necklaces, high quality textiles, pottery, food, and firewood, for the good fortune of a recently crowned Inca emperor, and to ensure the fertility of the crops and llamas. In this paper I discuss the assemblages of offerings associated with the three frozen Inca mummies discovered during archaeological research conducted by Johan Reinhard and myself on the summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano in northwestern Argentina. By correlating the archaeological evidence with the historical sources, interpretations will be presented regarding the role of mortuary offering assemblages associated with Inca mummies on sacred Andean peaks.
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Ceruti, Maria Constanza; Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco; Linden Museum Stuttgart; Tribus; Special; 2015; 166-179
0082-6413
url http://hdl.handle.net/11336/12651
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