Violence, ritual, and the Wari empire
Subtitle: a social bioarchaeology of imperialism in the ancient Andes
By: Tiffiny A. Tung ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen
Series: Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past : local, regional, and global perspectives
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780813037677
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Human remains (Archaeology); Antiquities; Analysis; Social archaeology; Human skeleton; Imperialism; Huari Indians; Excavations (Archaeology); Social structure
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to Wari; title: Bioarchaeology of imperialism and violence; title: The Wari empire in the Andean world; title: Wari community organization : demography, migration, and mortuary treatment; title: Violence and skeletal trauma among Wari communities; title: Corporeal icons of Wari imperialism : human trophy heads and their representations; title: Conclusions : life and death in the Wari world.