Muertes violentas en la sociedad Chancay Tardía del sitio arqueológico Las Shicras (Huaral, Lima)

• Autores: Vega, María del Carmen, Tosso, Walter, Peralta, Rodolfo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/193332
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia/article/view/26367/24850; https://doi.org/10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.202201.002
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: violence; Chancay; Peruvian central coast; late pre-Hispanic periods; Las Shicras; Violencia; Costa central peruana; Periodos tardíos prehispánicos; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02

Las Shicras archaeological zone is located 12 kilometers from the city of Huaral (Lima region), in a strategic area with a large occupational sequence from the Final Archaic Period to the Late Horizon. Las Shicras is composed by two monumental mounds joined by a central space, corresponding to the Final Archaic Period (2850-1900 b.C.), later remodeled and occupied by the Chancay society (1400-1520 AD). During the 2011-2013 excavation seasons, eight individuals (buried in the constructive fill of the Late Chancay remodeling of the southern mound - Sector A) were recovered. Likewise, another 10 individuals were found in the lower part of the monumental buildings (Sector C), corresponding to the Chancay-Inca residential-administrative units. The contextual and osteological analyzes indicate at least two events of violent death in Las Shicras: a) Burial of 10 people placed inside the construction of new architecture (Sector A); b) Burial of a couple of women offered to the abandoned residential buildings (Sector C). A pattern indicating that the violence was directed at a certain group is ruled out, since individuals of different ages and of both sexes are documented; however, most of the victims are female (adults and one adolescent), with predominance of damage to the facial area. Although the main hypothesis is that both groups were sacrifice victims, another type of violence is not discarded for Sector A, as this group of individuals does not present a consistent cohort or injury pattern, and not all of them were buried immediately after their deaths. Therefore, these persons could have been victims of armed attacks against a defenseless population, killed in a different place and (re) buried in Las Shicras.