Tres estatuillas antropomorfas de tipo capacocha en el Complejo Arqueológico de Cajamarquilla: sobre la representación de lo masculino y femenino en el mundo inca

• Autores: Nautré, Caroline, Gutiérrez, Andrea
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/203829
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia/article/view/30537/27512; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/203829; https://doi.org/10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.202501.005
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Cajamarquilla; Rimac River Valley; Inca statuettes; Spondylus; Capacocha; Valle del Rímac; Estatuillas incas; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02

The discovery of three Inca statuettes usually associated with high-altitude mountain contexts at the Cajamarquillla Archaeological Complex, an urban centre on the central Peruvian coast, has questioned our approaches to and our knowledge of the social and political dynamics of this Late Horizon (1470-1532 A.D.) monumental site. Similar finds made in the last decades as well as the accounts found in the Spanish chronicles, suggest that we must reconsider whether these are unmistakable indicators of a capacocha, the most significand and solemn sacrifice in the Inca State. The raw materials used in their manufacture, along with their textile and metal associations allow us to go beyond and explore them as materialised manifestations of a key concept in the Andean worldview: male and female dualism.