29 août 2019
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Oscar Daniel Llanos Jacinto, « MODELING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE CAHUACHI CEREMONIAL POLITICAL CENTER: RITUAL COMBATS AND DECAPITATIONS THROUGH A NAZCA CONTEXT », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.1qwe0z
The ritual combat and decapitation have apparently been necessary and decisive actions for the proper development of ritual political events manipulated by various pre-Hispanic societies. Among the Nazca, these practices seem to have had a high degree of importance, linked to various ceremonial political contexts: worship of the dead, establishment of alliances and subordinations or religious political valorization of specific spaces. It is within the framework of this last aspect, that the analysis of an archaeological context registered in Cahuachi is addressed, in order to explain how decapitation within a ritual dimension legitimated cyclically the aura of the political power of the elites of Cahuachi. The capital of the Nazcas thus reaffirmed its sphere of power and modeled its own cultural landscape, endowing itself with a ceremonial and influential mythical political aura in the collective mentality of the Nazca populations.