USE OF THROWING WEAPONS IN CENTRAL ANDINA AREA: HUNTING GUNS OR WAR?
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https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2012n24.e12334Keywords:
Andes, warfare, weapons, hunting, tool, symbol.Abstract
All types of weapons were not used in the same way and at the same time during the prehistory of the Central Andean Area. The study of their invention, or re-invention (or first occurrence, which is almost the same) , use and evolution which has never been carried out so far, brings us crucial information on the type of society who used them, their mutual relationship and with their environment. Nevertheless, the difficulty to distinguish between war weapons, hunting weapons and domestic tools is recurrent. Among throwing weapons, we contend that most of them have been used for hunting and ritual and few have been used for war till the Incas.
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