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Houses, Residential Burials, and Identity in the Rapayán Valley and the Upper Marañón Drainage, Peru, During Late Andean Prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alexis Mantha
Alexis Mantha*
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Champlain College, Saint-Lambert Campus, 900 Riverside Drive, Saint-Lambert, Québec, Canada, Office E-242, J4P 3P2 (amantha@champlaincollege.qc.ca)
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Abstract

The impressive multi-story funerary monuments found in the Upper Marañón Drainage of the northern Central Andes of Peru have long fascinated people. Archaeologists and historians have studied their spatial distribution to define the identity of the populations occupying the region during the Late Intermediate period (A.D. 1000—1450). Rather than focus on monumental architecture, in this paper I explore group identity in the Upper Mara ñon by analyzing the shape and layout of houses and evidence of residential funerary practices. Based on a regional comparative approach, I argue that diversity in domestic architecture and mortuary customs reflects a constellation of distinct collective identities

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Resumen

Los impresionantes edificios de varios pisos en la región del alto Marañón, en Perú, han cautivado la atención de la gente desde hace tiempo. Arqueologos e historiadores utilizaron su distribución espacial para definir la identidad cultural de las poblaciones del alto Marañón durante el periodo del Intermedio tardío (1000—1450 d.C). En este artículo, en lugar de enfocarme sobre la arquitectura monumental, analizo más bien la morfologia y la organización espacial de las viviendas, así como las evidencias de prácticas funerarias residenciales, para explorar cuestiones de identidad cultural en el alto Marañón, en los Andes centrales del Perú. A partir de una perspectiva comparativa regional, mantengo que la diversidad morfológica de las viviendas y las distintas prdcticas funerarias residenciales reflejaban una constelacion de identidades colectivas durante los periodos tardios de la prehistoria andina en el alto Marañón.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 433 - 451
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1999

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