University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations December 2015 Regional Perspective of Recuay Mortuary Practices: A View from the Hinterlands, Callejón De Huaylas, Peru Victor Manuel Ponte University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, and the Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis Commons Recommended Citation Ponte, Victor Manuel, "Regional Perspective of Recuay Mortuary Practices: A View from the Hinterlands, Callejón De Huaylas, Peru" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 1074. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1074 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF RECUAY MORTUARY PRACTICES: A VIEW FROM THE HINTERLANDS, CALLEJON DE HUAYLAS, PERU by Victor M. Ponte A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Anthropology at The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee December 2015 ABSTRACT REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF RECUAY MORTUARY PRACTICES: A VIEW FROM THE HINTERLANDS, CALLEJON DE HUAYLAS, PERU by Victor M Ponte The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015 Under the Supervision of Professor Jean Hudson Archaeological investigations of burial chambers in the north-central highlands of Peru constitute the corpus of this thesis. Most of the stone structures correspond chronologically and culturally to the Recuay Tradition, a time span of 100 to 800 CE. The study area is located in the Cordillera Negra of the Callejón de Huaylas basin (Ancash Department).