Abstract

BALDINI, Marta I.. Significant Burials Of The Aguada Orilla Norte Cemetery.  (Middle Period, Northwestern Argentina). Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2011, n.40, pp.43-60. ISSN 1668-8104.

            La Aguada culture of Northwest Argentina (Middle Period, 600-950 AD), contemporaneous with the Middle Horizon of Andean Central, is included in the cultural process that spread religious ideology in the field of Tiwanaku interaction across much of the Andean Area. The consolidation of the beliefs, values   and behaviors that sustain it were expressed in the symbolic character of the iconographic repertoire incorporated into various objects and community spaces, such as funebri or rock art.             The study of the Middle Period burials in the cemetery of the Aguada  Orilla Norte (Hualfín Valley, Catamarca) showed recurrences allow to affirm that the preparation of the burials responds to a profound symbolic significance socially established. Some modalities found could correspond to situations of social inequality and other to the role played played in life for individuals.             The human figures represented in the Aguada   iconography were differentiated as deities or persons with special roles in the cult, as the sacrificer. A group of seven burials in this cemetery was interpreted as pertaining to individuals who met this ceremonial role. In these individuals were buried with metal axes incorporated as funeral trousseau.             We analyze the mortuary practices intended for the sacrificers well as the uses and restrictions of their built-in icons of the total funeral contexts used by the community buried in the cemetery. It highlights the symbolic value of the differential use of metal axes by population segment.

Keywords : Aguada; Funebri; Sacrificers; Middle Period; Hualfín Valley.

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