A NEW SIDE OF "THE SACRIFICER". TIWANAKU ICONOGRAPHY IN BONE TUBES FROM SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, CHILE (400-1000 AD)

From a multidisciplinary approach this article presents a set of 14 tubes with painted iconography, corresponding chronologically to the Middle Period (circa 400 -1000 AD), from funerary sites in different cemeteries of the San Pedro de Atacama oases. We show here the special iconography of these tubes which, among other things, allows us to: broaden the range of visual representations of Tiwanaku art and define a new variant (Andean deer or taruca) for the icon known as "The Sacrificer".