Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, ix
INTEGRATING ETHNOHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, by Joyce Marcus, xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, xv
PART I
CHAPTER 1. SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE YUCAY VALLEY AND NEIGHBORING REGIONS,
by R. Alan Covey, Miriam Ara¿z Silva, and Brian S. Bauer, 000
Environmental Description and Research Context, 000
Preceramic/Aceramic Sites (ca. 5000-2000 BC), 000
Formative Period Settlement Patterns (ca. 1000 BC-AD 200), 000
Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon Settlement (ca. AD 200-1000), 00
Late Intermediate Period Settlement Patterns (ca. AD 1000-1400), 000
The Inka Occupation (ca. AD 1400-1535), 000
Early Colonial Settlement Patterns, 000
Settlement Patterns and Documents, 000
CHAPTER 2. IMPERIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE YUCAY VALLEY IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH
CENTURIES, by R. Alan Covey, 000
Inka Estates in the Yucay Valley, 000
The Yucay Valley Estates in the 1530s, 000
The Transition to Crown Control in the 1540s and 1550s, 000
Strategic Allocations of Crown Resources, 000
The Toledan Reducciones and Reclassification of Yucay Yanakuna, 000
Legal Proceedings and the Yucay Valley, 000
The Marquisate of Oropesa and the Betancur Collection, 000
CHAPTER 3. THE MARQUISATE OF OROPESA AND THE PRESERVATION, COLLECTION, AND STUDY OF ITS
DOCUMENTS, by R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado Gonz¿lez, 000
The Constitution and Inheritance of the Marquisate of Oropesa, 000
Estate Claims in Eighteenth-Century Cusco, 000
Don Juan de Bustamante Carlos Inca, 000
Diego Felipe Betancur Tupa Amaro, 000
Jos¿ Gabriel Condorcanqui Tupa Amaro, 000
The Assembly of the Betancur Collection and Allegations of Fraud, 000
The Betancur Collection during the Rise of Contemporary Historiography in Cusco, 000
A Brief Note on the Authenticity of the Present Collection, 000
PART II
DOCUMENTS FROM THE BETANCUR COLLECTION, ARCHIVO DEPARTAMENTAL DEL CUSCO, 000
FREQUENT ABBREVIATIONS, 000
APPENDIX A. SPANISH AND ANDEAN ELITES IN THE YUCAY VALLEY IN 1571, by R. Alan Covey, 000
Inkas, 000
Ca¿aris and Other Andeans, 000
Spaniards, 000
Unknown Masters/Mistresses and Those Known from Other Sources, 000
REFERENCES CITED, 000
Illustrations
Frontispiece. A view toward the Urquillos area in the Yucay Valley, Peru, ii
1.1. The Yucay Valley, showing the boundary of the 2007 survey region and modern
towns discussed in the text, 00
1.2. The floor of the Yucay Valley in the Huayoccari, Urquillos, and Huayllabamba area, 00
1.3. Landscape of the Pumahuanca Quebrada, a side valley draining into the Yucay Valley, 00
1.4. The Yucay Valley around Urubamba, 00
1.5. Map of Yucay Valley study region with the location of an Archaic projectile point and
rock art possibly dating to the preceramic period, 00
1.6. Cliff paintings at the entrance to the San Juan Quebrada, above Yucay (Site PACY-
139), 00
1.7. Map of important Formative period sites, 00
1.8. Map of important Late Intermediate period sites, 00
1.9. Agricultural terraces near the valley floor (Site PACY-6), 00
1.10. Abandoned canal associated with Inka terracing (Site PACY-6), 00
1.11. Aerial view of the terrace complex at Yucay, 00
1.12. Terrace construction at Yucay, 00
1.13. Hillside storage complex in the Yucay Valley (Site PACY-19), 00
1.14. Hillside storage complex in the Yucay Valley (Site PACY-92), 00
1.15. Plan of religious complex in the Pumahuanca Quebrada (Site PACY-54), 00
1.16. Architectural remains at PACY-54, 00
1.17. Inka wall remains in the Colonial center of Yucay, 00
2.1. The Cusco region, showing Inka estates and Colonial towns in the Sacred Valley and
Yucay Valley, 00
2.2. Aerial view of the terrace system built for Tupa Inca Yupanqui at the mouth of the Urquillos Canyon, 00
2.3. Close-up of terrace masonry at Urquillos, 00
2.4. The Yucay Valley, 00
2.5. Remains of the palace of Huayna Capac at Quispeguanca, 00
2.6. Remains of a guard tower at Quispeguanca, 00
2.7. Architectural remains identified as the palace of Sayri Tupa in Yucay, 00
2.8. Example of household survey data copied from Diego de Escudero's notebook, 00
2.9. Ethnic identities of yanakuna residing in the Yucay Valley in 1571, 00