Ancient Cuzco : : Heartland of the Inca / / Brian S. Bauer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Bauer, Brian S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Brian S.,; Chepstow-Lusty, Alex,; Covey, R. Alan,; Frogley, Michael,; Jones, Bradford,; Klink, Cindy,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)

The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas—the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance in the cultural development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently received the same kind of systematic archaeological survey long since conducted at other New World centers of civilization. Drawing on the results of the Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project that Brian Bauer directed from 1994 to 2000, this landmark book undertakes the first general overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca. 7000 B.C.) to the fall of the Inca Empire in A.D. 1532. Combining archaeological survey and excavation data with historical records, the book addresses both the specific patterns of settlement in the Cuzco Valley and the larger processes of cultural development. With its wealth of new information, this book will become the baseline for research on the Inca and the Cuzco Valley for years to come.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Inca -- CHAPTER 2 The Inca Heartland -- CHAPTER 3 Human Impact and Environmental History of the Cuzco Region -- CHAPTER 4 The Archaic Period and the First People of the Cuzco Valley (9500-2200 BC) -- CHAPTER 5 The Formative Period and the Emergence of Ranked Societies (2200 BC-AD 200) -- CHAPTER 6 The Qotakalli Period: Time of Regional Development (AD 200-600) -- CHAPTER 7 The Wari Period (AD 600-1000) in the Cuzco Region -- CHAPTER 8 The Development of the Inca State (AD 1000-1400) -- CHAPTER 9 The Cuzco Valley during Imperial Inca Rule -- CHAPTER 10 Inca Cuzco -- CHAPTER 11 The Coricancha -- CHAPTER 12 The Mummies of the Royal Inca -- CHAPTER 13 Overview of the Inca Heartland -- APPENDIX Radiocarbon Dates from the Cuzco Region -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX