Wari Women from Huarmey: Bioarchaeological Interpretation of Human Remains from the Wari Elite Mausoleum at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
The Site and the Excavations
The site
The excavations
History
PIACH investigations
A Brief Introduction to Wari
Chronology of the Andes
Wari – introduction
Origins of the Wari culture
Wari expansion
Wari funerary rites and the ways they buried their dead
Ancestor veneration among the Wari – was there any or not?
Archaeological Context
Funerary architecture at Castillo de Huarmey
The burial contexts with human remains
Location of the mausoleum within the landscape
State of Preservation and Taphonomic Issues
Biostratinomy and diagenesis of the burial context
Climate and ecological conditions
Burial chamber characteristics
Articulations and their interpretation
Articulations found in the burial chamber
Preservation of human remains outside the main chamber
Results of Bioarchaeological Analyses and their Interpretation
Demographic analyses
Health indicators and dental and skeletal markers of stress
Ante mortem injuries and trauma
Ante mortem surgical interventions
Physical activity
Biogeochemical analyses
Reconstructing the diet
Reconstructing the origin
Additional analyses – preliminary aDNA results
Funerary Rite Reconstruction Based on Bioarchaeological Research
Time constrains
Preparation of the corpses and their deposition
Internal organisation of the deceased within the mausoleum
Summary: reconstruction of funeral events
Who Were the Women of Castillo?
What do we know so far?
Who were the people buried along with the women of Huarmey?
Where were the women of Huarmey from?
Who were they actually?
Epilogue
Credits
Bibliography