Paquime, in northwestern chihuahua, was once the nucleus of a complex polity. Ancestor cult allowed emergent elites to assert and maintain their positions of authority. Paquime's ancestors used rituals to gain access to the dead in the afterworld. Ritual communication is one of the means by which social elaboration, structure, and social reorganization take on form.
Paquime, in northwestern chihuahua, was once the nucleus of a complex polity. Ancestor cult allowed emergent elites to assert and maintain their positions of authority. Paquime's ancestors used rituals to gain access to the dead in the afterworld. Ritual communication is one of the means by which social elaboration, structure, and social reorganization take on form.
Paquime, in northwestern chihuahua, was once the nucleus of a complex polity. Ancestor cult allowed emergent elites to assert and maintain their positions of authority. Paquime's ancestors used rituals to gain access to the dead in the afterworld. Ritual communication is one of the means by which social elaboration, structure, and social reorganization take on form.