Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings.
Trade Review"This is indeed a significant contribution that contains an immense amount of new evidence... The authors offer plentiful support for the view that human sacrifice is a very ancient and important, though shocking, Andean tradition." -William J Conklin, Research Associate for the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., the Field Museum, Chicago, and the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments (Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook)
- Chapter 1. Why Sacrifice? (Elizabeth P. Benson)
- Chapter 2. Decapitation in Cupisnique and Early Moche Societies (Alana Cordy-Collins)
- Chapter 3. Blood and the Moon Priestesses: Spondylus Shells in Moche Ceremony (Alana Cordy-Collins)
- Chapter 4. Blood, Fertility, and Transformation: Interwoven Themes in the Paracas Necropolis Embroideries (Mary Frame)
- Chapter 5. Children and Ancestors: Ritual Practices at the Moche Site of Huaca de la Luna, North Coast of Peru (Steve Bourget)
- Chapter 6. Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads in Ancient Nasca Society (Donald A. Proulx)
- Chapter 7. Huari D-Shaped Structures, Sacrificial Offerings, and Divine Rulership (Anita G. Cook)
- Chapter 8. The Physical Evidence of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Peru (John W. Verano)
- Bibliography
- Index
