The local technical ceramic traditions buried inside the funerary contexts of the Late period and represented in particular by the famous Mochica fineline painted vessels were possibly subject to technological modifications due to the influence of numerous foreign highland ceramic traditions and technical styles (i.e. Cajamarca and Wari) in the region.
The isotope information pertaining to the period prior to death may help in identifying locals and non-locals, especially when investigating individuals from the same funerary context but believed to have been highly mobile across the landscape.
The phrase continues to be used, however, to suggest the ritual or religious significance of coinage in a funerary context.
within 'elite' and 'non-elite' funerary contexts throughout the Late Mochica Period (8th 9th c. AD) and the Transitional Period (9th 10th c. AD).
These crops circulated alongside other exotic goods found both at domestic and funerary contexts in the Lluta valley [12], [14].
All different types of Inca human sacrifices described in the historical sources, including capacocha and necropompa, have been identified archaeologically in diverse funerary contexts excavated in the Andes of Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
In the coastal tradition, black pigment was restricted to funerary contexts for Chinchorro hunter-gatherers and used as part of mummified bodies or as offerings, since 7000 BP [24] (Fig. 2).
During this time various styles of ritual ceramics from different traditions (Mochica, Cajamarca and Wari) were buried within ceremonial and funerary contexts.
The information retrieved includes data from sites of miscellaneous sizes and functions, including bone collections from domestic, ritual and funerary contexts.
A century after Heinrici, James Downey examined the funerary practices of Christian Corinthians in historical context and argued that they intended vicarious baptism to protect the deceased's soul against interference on the journey to the afterlife.
