Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World's Highest Archaeological Sites

by Johan Reinhard and Maria Constanza Ceruti

Book Overview

The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 6,096 m (20,000 feet) high. The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices (capacochas). Although Spanish chroniclers wrote about these offerings and the state sponsored processions of which they were a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931745773
• ISBN13: 9781931745772
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 10.9"