Perturbaciones post mortem y reenterramientos en el Perú colonial temprano: evidencia bioarqueológica y negociación cultural de una paradoja religiosa

• Autores: Risco Patiño, Lorenzo, Menéndez, Lumila Paula
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/205285
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia/article/view/30962/28148; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/205285; https://doi.org/10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.202502.003
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Indigenous funerary practices; Funerary perturbations; Persistence; Cultural syncretism; Colonial period; Prácticas funerarias indígenas; Perturbación funeraria; Persistencia; Sincretismo cultural; Periodo colonial; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02

This review paper examines the burial practices of Peru’s indigenous populations throughout the early colonial period (1532-1570) based on a comparative qualitative meta-analysis of bioarchaeological and ethnohistorical publications. The study focuses on the specific cases of Puruchuco (Huaquerones and 57AS03), Mórrope, Magdalena de Cao and Iglesiachayoq, where post mortem modifications reveal the continuity of indigenous ritual connections. The symbolic implications of these practices are likewise studied bearing in mind the Andean understanding of the dead as active beings in social life. The overall conclusion is the presence of a paradoxical relationship between the formal acceptance of Christian burial patterns and the persistence of Andean ritual practices, which allows for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of cultural syncretism and transformation in the colonial Andes.