edited by Richard L. Burger, Craig Morris and Ramiro Matos Mendieta contributions by Heather Lechtman, Ana Maria Lorandi, Albert Meyers, Susan A. Niles, Joanne Pillsbury, Lucy C. Salazar, Julian I. Santillana, Charles Stanish, Rebecca Rollins Stone, Veronica Isabel Williams, Gary Urton, Carmen Arellano, Robert Batson, Brian S. Bauer, Carrie J. Brezine, Tom Cummins and Terence D'Altroy
Harvard University Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-88402-351-7 Library of Congress Classification F3429.V377 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 985.019
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been traditionally viewed through the textual sources of early colonial histories, this volume draws on recent archaeological research to challenge theories on the chronology and development of the Inka Empire and how this culture spread across such a vast area. The volume demonstrates the great regional diversity of the Inka realm, with strategies of expansion that were shaped to meet a variety of local situations beyond the capital in Cusco. Using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
Joanne Pillsbury
Foreword
Richard Burger, Craig Morris, and Ramiro Matos Mendieta
Preface
Craig Morris
Andean Ethnohistory and the Agenda for Inka Archaeology
Carmen Arellano and Ramiro Matos Mendieta
Variations between Inka Installations in the puna of Chinchayqocha and the Drainage of Tarma
Charles Stanish and Brian S. Bauer
Pilgrimage and the Geography of Power in the Inca State
Terence N. D'Altroy, Veronica I. Williams, and Ana Mar¿a Lorandi
The Inkas in the Southlands
Craig Morris and Juli¿n I. Santillana
The Inka Transformation of the Chincha Capital
Lucy C. Salazar
Machu Picchu's Silent Majority: A Consideration of the Inka Cemeteries
Susan A. Niles and Robert N. Batson
Sculpting the Yucay Valley: Power and Style in Late Inca Architecture
Albert Meyers
Toward a Re-conceptualization of the Late Horizon and the Inka Period: Perspectives from Cochasqu¿, Ecuador, and Samaipata, Bolivia
Appendix: The Kallanka at Samaipata, Bolivia: An Example of Inca Monumental Architecture by Mar¿a de los Angeles Mu¿oz
Tom Cummins
Queros, Aquillas, Uncus, and Chulpas: The Composition of Inka Artistic Expression and Power
Heather Lechtman
The Inka, and Andean Metallurgical Tradition
Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine
Information Control in the Palace of Puruchuco: An Accounting Hierarchy in a Khipu Archive from Coastal Peru
Rebecca Rollins Stone
"And All Theirs Different from His": The Dumbarton Oaks Royal Inka Tunic in Context
Richard L. Burger
The Archaeology of Inka Power: Concluding Thoughts
Notes on Contributors
Index
