FUNEBRIA CATÓLICA Y ESTIMACIONES DEL SEXO Y DE LA EDAD EN ENTIERROS DE UNA CIUDAD AMERICANA COLONIAL (MENDOZA, ARGENTINA, SIGLOS XVII-XIX)

Abstract

Knowledge of the handling death in the life of a colonial city realizes the social and biological processes of its inhabitants. In the city of Mendoza, founded in 1561, an installation process of temples that got to add a total of eight major in the village over 300 years was recorded. The buildings grew under the colonial consolidation, reaching become iconic for its architectural styles and investment in building materials. Indeed, the buildings were growing and excelling in the urban landscape. We understand that this gave a sense of the city and the citizens from the ritual was practiced there, including one very important: the funeral. We present the results of the excavations in temples built by Jesuits, Dominicans, Mercedarios, Franciscans and Augustinians in the city of Mendoza. Attention in the history of religious facilities is placed and people buried in them between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as analyzed by sex and age categories characterized.

Keywords

• urban archeology
• churches
• funeral rites
• bioanthropology