AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chachapoya Culture, Fetal Position, Blunt Trauma

• School: WLU
• Department: Archaeology and Heritage Studies
• Course: AR101
• Professor: Bonnie Glencross

Document Summary

The chachapoya were a strong and independent people living in the mountainous region of peru over 400 years. 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. Think about how scientists were able to piece together what happened to the. Radiocarbon, 1rst century after christ until time of the spanish. Drawings made my technicians show exact position of every skeleton/bone as it was found (pots, utensils, tools) Pri(cid:373)ar(cid:455) depositio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t (cid:373)o(cid:448)ed(cid:895), prote(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:271)od(cid:455) positio(cid:374) (cid:894)usuall(cid:455) seated a(cid:374)d fle(cid:454)ed and in mummy bundle in chachapoya burial) Chachapoya traded medicines, poisons, gold, silver, pottery (most important to date when they were used) Style and technique can help date pottery. Spanish colonial pottery (confirms this event occurred in the early colonial early 1570. Weapon of mass destruction: disease 9/10 died swept them. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374) are (cid:373)issi(cid:374)g fro(cid:373) the gra(cid:448)e (cid:894)(cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e epide(cid:373)i(cid:272) death(cid:895)