Title
¿fESTEJANDO CON LOS SEÑORES MOCHICAS? HACIA UNA REVALUACIÓN de LOS FESTINES y COMIDAS RITUALES PREHISPÁNICOS en LOS ANDES CENTRALES
Date Issued
01 June 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Goepfert N.
Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán
Publisher(s)
Cambridge University Press
Abstract
The feast was a common and recurring practice in the Central Andes during Prehispanic times. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on the criteria used in the archaeological characterization of these events. In this paper, we reassess the evidence of Sipan's Offering, a Mochica site (third-fourth centuries AD) in the Lambayeque valley, testing a quantitative variable called the available meat weight. Associated with the tomb of the Lord of Sipán, the deposit contains hundreds of prestige offerings and thousands of faunal remains. Analysis of the latter could help us assess the magnitude of the funeral meal by calculating the available meat weight. This provides new perspectives on the funeral meal given to honor this particular high dignitary after his burial. Considering that feasts constitute one of the foundations of social and political relations in Prehispanic Andean societies, we make a case for defining reliable methodological criteria in future scholarly work on Andean feasts.
Start page
331
End page
349
Volume
29
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Arqueología
Sociología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85046797547
Source
Latin American Antiquity
ISSN of the container
10456635
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus