Arqueología y derechos humanos: el rol del arqueólogo en el proceso de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Un caso de estudio sobre recuperación, análisis e interpretación de manera de muerte desde los Andes peruanos

• Autor: Mora, Franco
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/193339
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia/article/view/26376/24854; https://doi.org/10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.202201.009
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: archaeology; anthropology; forensics; bone trauma; gunshot wounds; missing persons; Arqueología; Antropología forense; Traumatismo óseo; lesiones por arma de fuego; Desaparecidos; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02

Peru experienced a process of internal political violence during the years 1980 and 2000, leaving more than 69,000 victims, more than 20,000 of them missing persons. The Latin American search process for missing persons has been led and developed, mainly in Peru, by archaeologists, bioarcheologists, and social anthropologists, who have put their knowledge at the service of the families of the missing and justice operators, in order to contribute to the victims’ right to truth and access to justice, and thus allow them comprehensive reparation. This article focuses on the role of the archaeologist in the search for missing persons, focusing on the process of recovering and analyzing the bodies of missing persons, through a case study of a forensic intervention in the highlands of the Peruvian Andes, carried out by the author of this note as part of the work of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) in the process of searching for missing persons in the context of the internal armed conflict (1980-2000). The results of this case focus on the analysis of six bodies of high Andean indigenous people who disappeared in October 1984 and recovered in 2015, focusing on the differential analysis of the different injuries found at the skeletal and clothing level, emphasizing a particular injury found in one of the victims’ bodies, which involves different areas of the body, which leads us to infer, from the evidence found, that the victim was in a state of immobility and defenselessness.