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Transformations in ritual practice and social interaction on the Tiwanaku periphery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2014

Juan Albarracin-Jordan ,
José M. Capriles  and
Melanie J. Miller
Juan Albarracin-Jordan
Affiliation:
1Fundación Bartolomé de las Casas, 18844 Park Grove Lane, Dallas, TX 75287, USA (Email: albarracinjordan@yahoo.com)
José M. Capriles
Affiliation:
2Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Antofagasta 1520, Casilla 6-D, Arica, Chile (Email: jmcapriles@gmail.com) 3Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto (CIHDE), Av. General Velásquez 1775, Arica, Chile
Melanie J. Miller
Affiliation:
4Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (Email: millermj@berkeley.edu)
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Abstract

Ritual practices and their associated material paraphernalia played a key role in extending the reach and ideological impact of early states. The discovery of a leather bag containing snuffing tablets and traces of psychoactive substances at Cueva del Chileno in the southern Andes testifies to the adoption of Tiwanaku practices by emergent local elites. Tiwanaku control spread over the whole of the south-central Andes during the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1100) but by the end of the period it had begun to fragment into a series of smaller polities. The bag had been buried by an emergent local elite who chose at this time to relinquish the former Tiwanaku ritual practices that its contents represent.

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Middle HorizonTiwanakuAndean prehistorysnuffing tabletsstate formationregional interaction

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Antiquity , Volume 88 , Issue 341 , September 2014 , pp. 851 - 862
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2014

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