Resumen

E. BLOM, Deborah. GROUP DYNAMICS IN TIWANAKU: A BIO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. Textos Antropológicos [online]. 2005, vol.15, n.2, pp. 61-75. ISSN 1025-3181.

This work contributes to the complementary proposal of ethnicity in prehistory, through the study of human remains. This investigation demonstrates that the inhabitants ofvarious sites in the southern Andes made use of the material cultural style of Tiwanaku, and at the same time distinguished themselves through cranial deformation. These data are highly visible, the styles ofadornment correspond with models proposed about the local ethnic identities that were maintained within Tiwanaku society. Moreover, the pattern of styles reflects the concepts of aymara duality reportedin the ethnohistoric chronicles. Analysis ofhereditary traits indicates that sexual reproduction between different groups was not restricted by social or geographic limits