Table of Contents

• Foreword (Clark Spencer Larsen)
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• 1. Ritual Violence on the North Coast of Peru: Perspectives and Prospects in the Archaeology of Ancient Andean Sacrifice (Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne)
• Part I. Ancient Ritual Variation and Methodological Advances in Studies of Sacrifice (Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne)
  • 2. Ritual Killing, Mutilation, and Dismemberment at Huaca de la Luna: Sharp Force Trauma Among the Moche Sacrifice Victims in Plazas 3A and 3C (Laurel S. Hamilton)
  • 3. The Taphonomy of Ritual Killing on the North Coast of Peru: Perspectives from Huaca de la Luna and Pacatnamú (Heather C. Backo)
  • 4. Ritual Strangulation in the Southern Moche World: Mortuary Ligatures as Tools of Liturgical Violation (David Chicoine)
  • 5. Bodies and Blood: Middle Sicán Human Sacrifice in the Lambayeque Valley Complex (AD 900–1100) (Haagen D. Klaus and Izumi Shimada)
  • 6. Precious Gifts: Mortuary Patterns and the Shift from Animal to Human Sacrifice at Santa Rita B in the Middle Chao Valley, Peru (Catherine Gaither, Jonathan Kent, Jonathan Bethard, Victor Vasquez S., and Teresa Rosales)
  • 7. Human Sacrifice at the Chotuna-Chornancap Archaeological Complex: Traditions and Transformations of Ritual Violence Under Chimú and Inka Rule (Haagen D. Klaus, Bethany L. Turner, Fausto Saldaña, Samuel Castillo, and Carlos Wester)
• Part II. Ancient Identities, Ambiguous Deaths, and Complex Burials (Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne)
  • 8. Life Before Death: A Paleopathological Examination of Human Sacrifice at the Templo de la Piedra Sagrada, Túcume, Peru (J. Marla Toyne)
  • 9. The Killing of Captives on the North Coast of Peru in Pre-Hispanic Times: Iconographic and Bioarchaeological Evidence (John W. Verano and Sara S. Phillips)
  • 10. Reconsidering Retainers: Identity, Death, and Sacrifice in High-Status Funerary Contexts on the North Coast of Peru (Sylvia Bentley and Haagen D. Klaus)
  • 11. Human Sacrifice: A View from San José de Moro (Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Mellisa Lund, Luis Jaime Castillo, and Lars Fehren-Schmitz)
• Part III. Continuums of Killing: Sacrifice of Animals and Objects (Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne)
  • 12. Life Histories of Sacrificed Camelids from Huancaco (Virú Valley) (Paul Szpak, Jean-François Millaire, Christine White, Steve Bourget, and Fred Longstaffe)
  • 13. Posts and Pots: Propitiatory Ritual at Huaca Santa Clara in the Virú Valley, Peru (Jean-François Millaire)
• Part IV. Perspectives from Beyond the North Coast of Peru (Haagen D. Klaus and J. Marla Toyne)
  • 14. Practicing and Performing Sacrifice (Tiffiny Tung)
  • 15. Mesoamerican Perspectives on the (Bio)archaeology of Ritual Violence (Vera Tiesler)
• Reference List
• Index

Promotional Information

"This volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of ritual killings and 'sacrifice.' The contributors to develop methods, ethnographic analogies, and social theory that other scholars working outside of the Andes will find of great use." -- Richard Sutter, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Indiana-Perdue University Fort Wayne "This book is unique. It offers a multidisciplinary and integrated view of the very complex theme of human sacrifice and ritual killing, including data from osteology, ethnohistory, art, and archaeology." -- Maria C. Lozada, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

About the Author

HAAGEN D. KLAUS is an assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University.

J. MARLA TOYNE is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida.