ANIMALS AND INCA IN THE WEST TINOGASTA (CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA)

作者：Pablo Miyano Juan; Lantos Irene; Ratto Norma; Orgaz Martin

来源：Latin American Antiquity, 2017, 28(1): 28-45.

DOI：10.1017/laq.2016.7

<jats:p>This paper explores the diverse human practices related to the use of animals during the Inca occupation of west Tinogasta (Catamarca, Argentina). We argue that the Inca state sponsored festivities in the San Francisco site (transitional puna of Chaschuil), where wild animal meat, mainly meat and bone marrow of adult vicuñas, was shared and consumed. These wild camelids were captured during the chaku, a collective hunting regulated by social and cultural mechanisms. Llamas were used as beasts of burden in caravans transporting ceramic vessels (<jats:italic>aríbalos</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>aribaloides</jats:italic>) from the pottery production center of Batungasta to San Francisco. We postulate that the <jats:roman>a</jats:roman>
<jats:italic>ríbalos</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>aribaloides</jats:italic>, which were designed for alcoholic beverages, were lined with camelid bone marrow to make their inner walls impermeable. Lastly, we argue that bones of birds and rodents were used to and the skin of a puma (important symbolic animal for the Incas) was processed in the San Francisco site.</jats:p>

• 出版日期2017-3