| Autor | Lessa, Andrea | |
| Autor | Souza, Sheila Maria Ferraz Mendonça de | |
| Data de acesso | 2023-02-15T21:56:44Z | |
| Data de disponibilização | 2023-02-15T21:56:44Z | |
| Data do publicação | 2006 | |
| Citação | LESSA, Andrea; SOUZA, Sheila Maria Ferraz Mendonça de. Broken noses for the gods: ritual battles in the Atacama Desert during the Tiwanaku period. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, v. 101, Supl. II, p. 133-138, 2006. | en_US |
| ISSN | 0074-0276 | en_US |
| URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/57079 | |
| Idioma | eng | en_US |
| Editor | Fiocruz/IOC | en_US |
| Direito Autoral | open access | en_US |
| Título | Broken noses for the gods: ritual battles in the Atacama Desert during the Tiwanaku period | en_US |
| Tipo do documento | Article | en_US |
| DOI | 10.1590/S0074-02762006001000020 | |
| Resumo em Inglês | The sample consists of 226 skulls from the Atacameño cemetery of Coyo Oriente (639-910 AD), associated with the Tiwanaku period. The authors analyzed signs of acute trauma typically associated with violence, and the results were 12% of men and 9.9% of women displaying any type of lesion related to violence. In males, concentration of these non-lethal lesions in the nasal region (10.4%) as opposed to a random distribution over the entire skull (1.6%), suggests that the blows were struck during rituals. The cultural context of this period, with a strong ideological influence from Tiwanaku, supports the ritual hypothesis, since both the ethnographic as well as archeological records point to the existence of non-lethal violent bleeding with ritual beating to the face. Such rituals persist to this day among certain Andean populations. Among women, the most plausible hypothesis for the lesions (3.9% in the skull, 4.9% in the nasal bones, and 0.9% in the face) is domestic conflicts, since they show a random distribution. Previous studies with other Atacameño samples had indicated the same results for women. | en_US |
| Afiliação | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Departamento de Endemias Samuel Pessoa. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
| Afiliação | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca. Departamento de Endemias Samuel Pessoa. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | Palaeoepidemiology | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | Acute trauma | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | Nasal fractures | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | Ritual fights | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | Coyo Oriente | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | Tiwanaku | en_US |
| Palavras-chave em inglês | San Pedro de Atacama | en_US |
| e-ISSN | 1678-8060 | |
