Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes

Peter Eeckhout is Professor of Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology and Vice-Director of the Department of History, Arts, and Archaeology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research interests include complex societies of the Americas, monumental architecture and funerary archaeology. He has been leading excavations in Peru since 1993 and is the founder and director of the Ychsma Project at the site of Pachacamac, near Lima. He is author, editor, or coeditor of several books related to Pachacamac, Peruvian archaeology and wars and conflicts in the ancient Americas, and of more than seventy book chapters and scholarly papers in international journals. Lawrence Owens lectures in bioarchaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. He specialises in the interpretation of socially oriented themes - notably diet, pathology and trauma - in ancient human skeletons. He has worked on human remains from Peru, the UK, Egypt, South Africa, the United States, Bolivia, Qatar, Spain and the Canary Islands, and he has a particular interest in the relationship between demographics, pathology and aberrant burial traditions in Andean populations. He has worked as head bioarchaeologist on the Ychsma Project at Pachacamac since 2004.

• 1. The impossibility of death: introduction to funerary practices and models in the ancient Andes Peter Eeckhout and Lawrence S. Owens; 2. Death and the dead in formative Peru Peter Kaulicke; 3. Far away, so close: living with the ancestors in Panquilma, Peruvian central coast Enrique Lopez-Hurtado; 4. A temple for the dead at San Juanito, lower Santa Valley, during the Initial Period Claude Chapdelaine and Gérard Gagné; 5. Tombs and tumuli on the coast and pampa of Tarapacá: explaining the Formative Period in northern Chile (south central Andes) Carolina Agüero and Mauricio Uribe; 6. Paracas funerary practices in Palpa, south coast of Peru Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Markus Reindel and Johny Isla; 7. When the dead speak in Moche: funerary customs in an architectural complex associated with the Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna Henry Gayoso Rullier and Santiago Uceda Castillo; 8. The construction of social identity: tombs of specialists at San José de Moro, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru Carlos E. Rengifo and Luis Jaime Castillo Butters; 9. Bodies of evidence: mortuary archaeology and the Wari-Tiwanaku paradox William H. Isbell and Antti Korpisaari; 10. To the god of death, disease, and healing: social bioarchaeology of Cemetery I at Pachacamac Lawrence S. Owens and Peter Eeckhout; 11. The preparation of corpses and mummy bundles in Ychsma funerary practices at Armatambo Luisa Díaz Arriola; 12. From one burial to another: a sequence of funerary patterns from the Manteño culture (Integration Period AD 800–1535) site of Japotó, Manabí Province, Ecuador Tania Delabarde; 13. Decapitated for the temple: a Nazca funerary context from Cahuachi Oscar D. Llanos Jacinto; 14. Multidisciplinary study of Nectandra sp. seeds from Chimu funerary contexts at Huaca de la Luna, north coast of Peru María del R. Montoya Vera.