AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mass Suicide, Veneration Of The Dead, Chachapoya Culture

• School: WLU
• Department: Archaeology and Heritage Studies
• Course: AR101
• Professor: dr.g

Document Summary

Today we are going to turn our attention to bio-archaeology. Outline: - the chachapoya were a strong and independent people living in the mountainous region of peru over 400 years ago. Think about how scientists were able to piece together what happened to the. Discovery of a site with the remains of more than 100 individuals has archaeologists on the hunt to find out who or what killed these people. There was a new discovery of a mass grave of a 100 corpses. (cid:883)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s over houses once home to thousand"s of years were abandoned. These people were vanished and no one knew why. They were found on the floor of the houses. The question is who or what happened to the chachapoya. The inca empire was a prime suspect because the chachapoya were the boarder into the amazon beyond the mountains. Quela is the name of the city that was occupied by the chachapoya.