Funerary Practices and Models in the Ancient Andes: The Return of the Living Dead (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107059344)

This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely - if ever - been utilised in South America before. The book covers the Formative Period to the end of the Inca Empire, and the chapters together comprise a state-of-the-art summary of all the best research on Andean funerary archaeology currently being carried out around the globe.

Author: Peter Eeckhout
ISBN-10: 1107059348
ISBN-13: 9781107059344
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/02/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.00w x 1.00d