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Este artículo presenta los resultados de investigación acerca de las representaciones iconográficas totales y parciales de un decapitador con cuernos de venado de los repertorios Tiwanaku y Wari. Dicho personaje presenta apéndices en su corona que al tratarse de piernas, brazos o cabezas antropomorfas, parecen aludir a una víctima descuartizada representada de forma abstracta en el tema de este personaje. Los contextos y soportes materiales de las representaciones de este personaje lo vinculan con chamanes y grupos de élite que pudieron presidir rituales importantes en la urbe Tiwanaku y otras regiones y culturas.

- by and +1
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- Tiwanaku, Venado, Wari, Pucara

Comparative study of fortified settlements in Peru, and spatial analysis for understanding the settlement pattern, in the Jauja Région. Nature and functions of Pucaras in the Late Intermediate Period in the Centrales Andes, and reality or... more

- by Romuald Housse
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- Archaeology, Andean Archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Peru

- by Romuald Housse
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- Archaeology, Andean Archaeology, Archaeological GIS, Peru
- by Oscar Useche Aldana
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- Political Science, Pucara

The scope and scientific purpose of this paper focuses on multiscale (aerial and terrestrial) photogrammetry as a support to investigations and interpretations in a multi-component archaeological site located in the Argentinian Cordillera (Calchaquí, Salta), known as Tacuil. Due to its scarce accessibility, as well as long-term problems associated with the interpretation of the visibility of this type of settlement, the use of aerial surveying was combined with the reconstruction of structures and complex soil morphologies by resorting to modern photogrammetric approaches (3D models and orthophotos). This dataset was complemented by a terrestrial survey to obtain extremely high resolution and detailed representations of archaeological features that were integrated in a GIS database. The outcome of photogrammetric surveying was fundamental in supporting the debate on the functionality of the site and his integration in a complex, socially constructed, ancient landscape. Finally, the present paper introduces the first complete map of Tacuil.

- by Laura (Violeta) Colombo
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- Pucara

For the Northwestern Argentina (NWA) between AD 1000 and 1430, the proposed situation encompasses the existence of a state of political fragmentation, conflict situations, and the emergence of hierarchies materialized in the presence of defensive settlements or pukaras, iconography, war paraphernalia, and evidences of trauma on human remains, always considering the climatic changes that occurred in the Andes starting in the thirteenth century as one of the causes. The archaeological information from the high ravines of Valle Calchaquí Medio (VCM) located in the current province of Salta, NWA between eleventh and seventeenth centuries, allowed us to hypothesize a continuity in the occupation of this space following logics and practices from pre-Hispanic times which were linked to the subsistence and social reproduction, such as seasonal and altitudinal management.

- by Veronica Williams
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- Andean Archaeology, Pucara

At the hearth of Central Cordillera of the Andes, in Peru, the Ayacucho regions offers a landscape of mountains and deep valleys, whose vast ecological diversity encouraged human settlement from the Archaic period (10 000 years ago, up to... more

- by Patrice Lecoq and +1
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- Digital Signal Processing, Google, Spatial planning, Late Intermediate Period

The present investigation, framed within the project CONICYT-USA 2013-0012: Water management and agro-hydraulic systems in Desert environments: The Upper Loa from AD 1000–1500, attempts to establish an integrated architectural and spatial study of the chullpa-type structures of Pucará de Turi. To achieve this, we have approached the syntactic analysis of the site following an “archaeotectonic” approach, which encompasses both the formal analysis of buildings, construction forms and techniques, as well as the models of circulatory routes, and visibility conditions. The study of the built structures allowed us to identify a model of organization of monuments and ritual spaces, which suggests segmentation and social hierarchy within the settlement. Consequently, this research seeks to understand the social construction of the different ritual spaces that constitute Pucará de Turi as a sociocultural context of population interaction during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900–1450). Finally, this study will enable us to understand and discuss corporate and segmented societies.