International audienceThe ritual combat and decapitation have apparently been necessary and decisive actions for the proper development of ritual political events manipulated by various pre-Hispanic societies. Among the Nazca, these practices seem to have had a high degree of importance, linked to various ceremonial political contexts: worship of the dead, establishment of alliances and subordinations or religious political valorization of specific spaces. It is within the framework of this last aspect, that the analysis of an archaeological context registered in Cahuachi is addressed, in order to explain how decapitation within a ritual dimension legitimated cyclically the aura of the political power of the elites of Cahuachi. The capital ...
The traditional interpretation of the disappearance of Nazca is understood to have taken place durin...
Little is known about the precise date of the emergence of decapitation in a ritual context and the ...
This article puts together studies on sacrificial rites and reflections upon the expressive power an...
International audienceThe ritual combat and decapitation have apparently been necessary and decisive...
En ninguna parte del Perú prehispánico se tiene un mayor número de cabezas trofeo como las encontrad...
International audienceThe Great Temple is one of the most impressive buildings existing on the site ...
International audienceBased on archeological field dates and analyses of the geographical and cultur...
An analysis of the ritual value of the war in the Celtiberian world, with special attention to weapo...
This master's thesis deals with sacrifice by decapitation. Its goal is to describe systematicaly thi...
En la costa sur del Perú, el celebre sitio de Cahuachi (200 a.C.- 450 d.C.), el más vasto asentamien...
International audienceThe Mesoamerican Epiclassic (600 to 900 AD) is a period of important political...
En la región del Campo del Pucará (Catamarca, Argentina) se localiza un centro ceremonial que perten...
International audienceEl Epiclásico mesoamericano (600 a 900 d.C.) es un periodo de cambios político...
Since the beginning of European expansion, the colonial armies – by themselves or vicariously – ‘hun...
Little is known about the precise date of the emergence of decapitation in a ritual context and the ...
The traditional interpretation of the disappearance of Nazca is understood to have taken place durin...
Little is known about the precise date of the emergence of decapitation in a ritual context and the ...
This article puts together studies on sacrificial rites and reflections upon the expressive power an...
International audienceThe ritual combat and decapitation have apparently been necessary and decisive...
En ninguna parte del Perú prehispánico se tiene un mayor número de cabezas trofeo como las encontrad...
International audienceThe Great Temple is one of the most impressive buildings existing on the site ...
International audienceBased on archeological field dates and analyses of the geographical and cultur...
An analysis of the ritual value of the war in the Celtiberian world, with special attention to weapo...
This master's thesis deals with sacrifice by decapitation. Its goal is to describe systematicaly thi...
En la costa sur del Perú, el celebre sitio de Cahuachi (200 a.C.- 450 d.C.), el más vasto asentamien...
International audienceThe Mesoamerican Epiclassic (600 to 900 AD) is a period of important political...
En la región del Campo del Pucará (Catamarca, Argentina) se localiza un centro ceremonial que perten...
International audienceEl Epiclásico mesoamericano (600 a 900 d.C.) es un periodo de cambios político...
Since the beginning of European expansion, the colonial armies – by themselves or vicariously – ‘hun...
Little is known about the precise date of the emergence of decapitation in a ritual context and the ...
The traditional interpretation of the disappearance of Nazca is understood to have taken place durin...
Little is known about the precise date of the emergence of decapitation in a ritual context and the ...
This article puts together studies on sacrificial rites and reflections upon the expressive power an...