ANTH 0538 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Grave Goods, Veneration Of The Dead, Cist
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Burial towers of the andes: 1) funeral towers for the special dead (ancestors) Ayllu their lineage, clan, important ancestors were housed in. Built on ridgelines, etc: 6) not full of riches, but instead have everyday objects. April 2012 dna analysis of 27 skeletons from cora cora, peru: from multiple chullpas, family connections strongest within single individual chullpas, patrilineal two chullpas had directly related males of several generations, another chullpa had 3 different patrilines. Highland bolivia tombs: 600 ad everyone was buried in cist tomes (holes in the ground, 800 ad collared tombs (cist tomes with a small superstructure above the ground) Made tombs more accessible: 1100 ad protochullp (both above the ground for the body and below for the grave goods) 2: 1300 ad chullpas above ground burial for some marks developments of ancestor veneration, ancestor worship most prominent 600-1300 ad, artificial cranial deformations. Nobody is sure why they do this. Omo cemetery in moquegua vallery, pery (1100-1300 ad)
