Bibliographic citations
Aranda, K., (2020). Una ofrenda a la arquitectura monumental precerámica en el sitio los morteros como parte de un ritual de clausura [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/15774
Aranda, K., Una ofrenda a la arquitectura monumental precerámica en el sitio los morteros como parte de un ritual de clausura []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/15774
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title = "Una ofrenda a la arquitectura monumental precerámica en el sitio los morteros como parte de un ritual de clausura",
author = "Aranda Schoster, Kristel Anais",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2020"
}
In 2012, archaeological excavations carried out by Los Morteros-Pampa de las Salinas Archaeological Project demonstrated that Los Morteros (5726-5041 cal. AP), a prepottery archaeological site located in Pampa de las Salinas, lower Chao Valley, northern Peruvian coast, is an artificial mound formed by several ocupation phases, including the construction of adobe-brick monumental architecture dating before 5500 cal. yrs. BP. Lately, in 2016-2017, excavations inside that adobe-brick architecture uncovered a context composed by hearths containing marine animal bones, shells, abundant charcoal, bodies and several other unarticulated human bones. The main goal of this thesis is to make contextual, bioarchaeological and radiocarbon analyses to the remains found in the adobe-brick architecture to find relations between them and the space where they were placed and see if it has been done in just one moment or in many events, identify age patterns, possible trauma, and funerary treatments. According to the context information and the analyses, the hipothesis of this investigation is that the human remains, the faunal remains and the way all them were found, denote an offering as part of a ritual entombment of the adobe-brick architecture of Los Morteros. For that, the methodology is a contextual analysis, bioarchaeological analysis to estimate ages, see funerary treatments, traumas, pathologies, and try to apply ideas of burning human bodies, all of that complemented with radiocarbon dating. In this way, the conclusion of this thesis is that the context found and analyzed is part of a ritual entombment of the adobe-brick architecture, contributing to construct the social and ritual significance of Los Morteros inside Pampa de las Salinas and the Chao Valley.
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