Download or read book The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants written by Mary Glowacki and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru,The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco, Peru analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 500–1000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state. The contributors to this collection present evidence of the Wari civilization’s robust, imperialistic occupation of Cuzco, and argue that this presence laid the groundwork for later regional polities that can be traced to the Late Horizon Inca period (AD 1476–1532). This collection fills a gap in scholarly literature on Cuzco prehistory, the provincial southern highlands of the Wari civilization, and early imperialism in the Andes.
Download or read book Pikillacta written by Gordon F. McEwan and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the first Andean imperial state has been the subject of lively debate for decades. Archaeological sites dating to the Peruvian Middle Horizon time period, A.D. 540 to 900, appear to give evidence for the emergence of an expansive empire that set the stage for the development of the later Inca state. This archaeological investigation of Pikillacta, the largest provincial site of Peru’s pre-Inca Wari empire, provides essential background for interpreting the empire’s political and cultural organization. With engineering skills rivaling those of the builders of Cuzco itself, the Wari at Pikillacta erected more than seven hundred buildings covering nearly two square kilometers, with a fresh water supply and an elaborate underground sewage system but, enigmatically, only seven short streets and a near total lack of windows. In this long-awaited volume, Gordon McEwan and his colleagues report on the labor costs of construction (nearly 6 million man-days), the typology of Pikillacta's enigmatic architecture, and the site’s spectacular hydraulic system as well as its ceramics and chronology, human remains, and metal artifacts. In the final section, building on his years of research and excavation, McEwan develops a hypothetical model of Wari provincial administration in the Cuzco region, arguing that the Wari were innovators of techniques of statecraft that explain the function of and the labor investment in the Pikillacta complex. His book not only substantively contributes to our understanding of when and exactly how and why Pikillacta was built and what it was used for, it also illuminates the political and cultural antecedents of the Inca state.
Download or read book Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru written by Katharina J. Schreiber and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 600 years before the Inka empire ruled the Andean region of South American, during the period known as the Middle Horizon, there were two complex societies: the Tiwanaku and the Wari. In this volume, Katharina J. Schreiber explores the problem of the Middle Horizon through archaeological research in two specific areas: the Carhuarazo Valley and the Jincamocco site. Foreword by Jeffrey R. Parsons.
Download or read book The Nature of Wari written by R. Michael Czwarno and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of the Middle Horizon Period in Peru. (BAR -S525, 1989)
Download or read book Huari Administrative Structure written by William Harris Isbell and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peruvian Prehistory written by Richard W. Keatinge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peruvian Prehistory offers an authoritative survey of the cultural evolution of Peru from the appearance of the first inhabitants around 10,000 BC to the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. The book is divided chronologically into three main parts, which examine in turn the highland and lowland zones in the Preceramic and Initial periods; the development of complex society at Chavin, Tiwanaku and Fluari and in the Moche and Nazca cultures; and the culmination of this process, the Pan-Andean empire of the Incas, and the way this can be studied through a combination of archaeology and ethnohistoric research. A fourth, concluding section deals with the often neglected tropical forest region of Peru and its formative influence on the evolution of Andean culture. The first collective assessment of Peruvian archaeology for a generation, this volume traces the processes of political, social and economic change in Andean civilisation in a manner that will attract many with no specialist interest in Peru.
Download or read book Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru written by Katharina Jeanne Schreiber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropological Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Field Archaeologty Vol 23 No 1 Spring 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Middle Horizon in the Valley of Cuzco Peru written by Gordon Francis McEwan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Recent Studies in Pre Columbian Archaeology written by Nicholas J. Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Archaeological Projects in the Central Andes written by Ann Kendall and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symposium of this title formed part of the 44th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas which met at Manchester in 1982. The papers presented and published here provide a useful summary of the themes concerning archaeologists working at a variety of sites in Peru and particularly in the highlands. Although the original intent was to include some discussion of the use of an interdisciplinary approach by projects principally concerned with archaeological data - this was later modified to provide an open forum on currrent research.
Download or read book Dual Organization and Calendars Inferred from the Planned Site of Azangaro Wari Administrative Strategies written by Martha Biggar Anders and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of the South Arcot District written by John Henry Garstin and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Incas written by Gordon F Mcewan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Incas: New Perspectives offers a revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from the earliest stages of its development to its final capitulation to Pizzarro in the mid-16th century. In recent years researchers have employed new tools to get to the heart of the mysterious Inca culture. Drawing on recent work in archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, and other sources, The Incas provides the most up-to-date interpretations of Inca culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life available. Readers will discover how the Incas discovered medicines still in use and kept records using knotted cords; how Inca builders created masterful highways and stone bridges; and how the inhabitants of seemingly unfarmable lands came to give the world potatoes, beans, corn, squashes, tomatoes, avocados, peanuts, and peppers. --Publisher.
