Contents

List of Figures

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1. An Archaeology of Rituals

Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista

2. The Nature of Ritual Space at Chavín de Huántar

John W. Rick

3. Not Just a Pyramid Scheme? Diversity in Ritual Architecture at Chavín de Huántar

Daniel A. Contreras

4. From Ritual to Ideology: Ritual Activity and Artistic Representations in the Northern Highlands of Peru in the Formative Period

Yoshio Onuki

5. Architecture and Ritual Practices at Huaca A of Pampa de las Llamas–Moxeke

Rafael Vega-Centeno Sara-Lafosse

6. Territoriality, Monumentality, and Religion in Formative Period Nepeña, Coastal Ancash

David Chicoine, Hugo Ikehara, Koichiro Shibata, and Matthew Helmer

7. Ritual Practice at the End of Empire: Evidence of an Abandonment Ceremony from Pataraya, a Wari Outpost on the South Coast of Peru

Matthew J. Edwards

8. From the Domestic to the Formal: A View of Daily and Ceremonial Practices from Cerro de Oro during the Early Middle Horizon

Francesca Fernandini and Mario Ruales

9. The Demise of the Ruling Elites: Terminal Rituals in the Pyramid Complexes of Panquilma, Peruvian Central Coast

Camila Capriata Estrada and Enrique López-Hurtado

10. Reconstructing Early Colonial Andean Ritual Practice at Pukara, Peru: An Architectural Approach

Sarah Abraham

11. Ritual as Interaction with Non-Humans: Prehispanic Mountain Pass Shrines in the Southern Andes

Axel E. Nielsen, Carlos I. Angiorama, and Florencia Ávila

12. Mining, Ritual, and Social Memory: An Exploration of Toponymy in the Ica Valley, Peru

Hendrik Van Gijseghem and Verity H. Whalen

13. Rituals of the Past: Final Comments

Jerry D. Moore

List of Contributors

Index