Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes
August 15, 2025
August 15, 2025
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 15 -- Cornell University posted the following news:
* * *
Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes
*
On a January morning in 1586 in Yanque, Peru, leaders of two Indigenous peoples, the Collaguas and the Cavanas, recounted to Spanish conquerors their origins and ways of life in the hills and mountains that cradled the Colca Valley.
According to a Spanish translator and scribe, they exp . . .
* * *
Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes
*
On a January morning in 1586 in Yanque, Peru, leaders of two Indigenous peoples, the Collaguas and the Cavanas, recounted to Spanish conquerors their origins and ways of life in the hills and mountains that cradled the Colca Valley.
According to a Spanish translator and scribe, they exp . . .