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.

Excavations at the Castillo de Huarmey archaeological site brought to light the first intact burial of female high-elite members of the Wari culture. This book presents the results of bioarchaeological analyses performed to date, and focuses on reconstructing the funeral rite and social status of the deceased.

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