Gestación de un nuevo panorama social en el oasis Atacameño: Conflictos durante la transición para el período de las autonomías regionales

Abstract

Violent trauma in the skeletal sample from the pre-Columbian cemetery of Coyo-3, associated with the final moments of the Coyo phase, was analyzed for this project. Male and female adults were studied. Arrow wounds, cranial vault, nasal and Parry fractures to the forearm were the violent lesions considered here. The male sample had a higher frequency of violent injuries (33.3%), likely resulting from the turbulent socio-political milieu during the withdrawal of Tiwanaku influence in the Atacama. Among women, the observed lesion frequency was lower (9.9%), and was interpreted as domestic violence, in harmony with other studies of trauma from the Atacama area.