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8 - Human Remains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2011

Tom D. Dillehay
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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This chapter discusses the human skeletal remains recovered from sites CA-09–27, CA-09–28, CA-09–52, CA-09–71, CA-09–73, and CA-09–77 in the upper Zaña Valley, Peru. These sites are all located in the Nanchoc section of the valley. The first three sites date to the Las Pircas phase, while the last three sites are affiliated with the Tierra Blanca phase. One Las Pircas phase site (CA-09–27), with its elliptical house, storage unit, and garden area, contained only a single hyoid bone, an element infrequently recovered archaeologically due to its small size and fragile nature, and one tooth. A nearby Las Pircas phase site, CA-09–28, contained one primary, articulated flexed burial of a single individual, and four human bone clusters, including several burials of partial single individuals. This site also contained human bone scattered throughout the site midden, but no houses or furrowed gardens were located through excavation. Site CA-09–28 contained 857 small human bone fragments scattered throughout the midden, for an average of 31.7 fragments per 1 m2 unit (Rossen 1991: 582). The third Las Pircas phase site with human remains is CA-09–52, with a single complete but highly fragmented individual placed in a circular pit. This site primarily contained furrowed areas interpreted as gardens, but no houses. This site also exhibited a lower density of human bone fragments, 7.9 fragments per one m2 unit of human bone fragments, scattered through the midden.

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From Foraging to Farming in the Andes
New Perspectives on Food Production and Social Organization
, pp. 163 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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