The Chanka
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The Chanka
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Author : Brian S. Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2010-12-31
The Chanka written by Brian S. Bauer and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-31 with History categories.
In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program of expansion. Conquering a host of smaller polities, their army had advanced well inside the territory of their traditional rival, the Inca. In a series of unusual maneuvers, the Inca defeated the invading Chanka forces and became the most powerful people in the Andes. Many scholars believe that the defeat of the Chanka represents a defining moment in the history of South America as the Inca then continued to expand and establish the largest empire of the Americas. Despite its critical position in South American history, until recently the Chanka heartland remained unexplored and the cultural processes that led to their rapid development and subsequent defeat by the Inca had not been investigated. From 2001 to 2004, Brian Bauer conducted an archaeological survey of the Andahuaylas region. This project represents an unparalleled opportunity to examine theoretical issues concerning the history and cultural development of late-prehistoric societies in this area of the Andes. The resulting book includes an archaeological analysis on the development of the Chanka and examines their ultimate defeat by the Inca.
The Chankas And The Priest
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Author : Sabine Hyland
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2016-05-02
The Chankas And The Priest written by Sabine Hyland and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-02 with Social Science categories.
How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru? In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chronicles the horrifying story of Father Juan Bautista de Albadán, a Spanish priest to the Chanka people of Pampachiri in Peru from 1601 to 1611. During his reign of terror over his Andean parish, Albadán was guilty of murder, sexual abuse, sadistic torture, and theft from his parishioners, amassing a personal fortune at their expense. For ten years, he escaped punishment for these crimes by deceiving and outwitting his superiors in the colonial government and church administration. Drawing on a remarkable collection of documents found in archives in the Americas and Europe, including a rare cache of Albadán’s candid family letters, Hyland reveals what life was like for the Chankas under this corrupt and brutal priest, and how his actions sparked the instability that would characterize Chanka political and social history for the next 123 years. Through this tale, she vividly portrays the colonial church and state of Peru as well as the history of Chanka ethnicity, the nature of Spanish colonialism, and the changing nature of Chanka politics and kinship from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.
The Bioarchaeology Of Societal Collapse And Regeneration In Ancient Peru
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Author : Danielle Shawn Kurin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-12
The Bioarchaeology Of Societal Collapse And Regeneration In Ancient Peru written by Danielle Shawn Kurin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-12 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how individuals, social groups, and entire populations are impacted by the tumultuous collapse of ancient states and empires. Through meticulous study of the bones of the dead and the molecules embedded therein, bioarchaeologists can reconstruct how the reverberations of traumatic social disasters permanently impact human bodies over the course of generations. In this case, we focus on the enigmatic civilizations of ancient Peru. Around 1000 years ago, the Wari Empire, the first expansive, imperial state in the highland Andes, abruptly collapsed after four centures of domination. Several hundred years later, the Inca rose to power, creating a new highland empire running along the spine of South America. But what happened in between? According to Andean folklore, two important societies, known today as the Chanka and the Quichua, emerged from the ashes of the ruined Wari state, and coalesced as formidable polities despite the social, political, and economic chaos that characterized the end of imperial control. The period of the Chanka and the Quichua, however, produced no known grand capital, no large, elaborate cities, no written or commercial records, and left relatively little by way of tools, goods, and artwork. Knowledge of the Chanka and Quichua who thrived in the Andahuaylas region of south-central Peru, ca. 1000 – 1400 A.D., is mainly written in bone—found largely in the human remains and associated funerary objects of its population. This book presents novel insights as to the nature of society during this important interstitial era between empires—what specialists call the “Late Intermediate Period” in Andean pre-history. Additionally, it provides a detailed study of Wari state collapse, explores how imperial fragmentation impacted local people in Andahuaylas, and addresses how those people reorganized their society after this traumatic disruption. Particular attention is given to describing how Wari collapse impacted rates and types of violence, altered population demographic profiles, changed dietary habits, prompted new patterns of migration, generated novel ethnic identities, prompted innovative technological advances, and transformed beliefs and practices concerning the dead.
Bioarchaeological And Forensic Perspectives On Violence
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Author : American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Annual meeting
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Bioarchaeological And Forensic Perspectives On Violence written by American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Annual meeting and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Law categories.
Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim's bones.
The Inka Empire
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Author : Izumi Shimada
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-06-01
The Inka Empire written by Izumi Shimada and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with Social Science categories.
Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without wheeled vehicles, markets, or a writing system, the Inka. For some 130 years (ca. A.D. 1400 to 1533), the Inka ruled over at least eighty-six ethnic groups in an empire that encompassed about 2 million square kilometers, from the northernmost region of the Ecuador–Colombia border to northwest Argentina. The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century.
Settlement Ecology Of The Ancient Americas
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Author : Lucas C. Kellett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Settlement Ecology Of The Ancient Americas written by Lucas C. Kellett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Social Science categories.
In this exciting new volume several leading researchers use settlement ecology, an emerging approach to the study of archaeological settlements, to examine the spatial arrangement of prehistoric settlement patterns across the Americas. Positioned at the intersection of geography, human ecology, anthropology, economics and archaeology, this diverse collection showcases successful applications of the settlement ecology approach in archaeological studies and also discusses associated techniques such as GIS, remote sensing and statistical and modeling applications. Using these methodological advancements the contributors investigate the specific social, cultural and environmental factors which mediated the placement and arrangement of different sites. Of particular relevance to scholars of landscape and settlement archaeology, Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas provides fresh insights not only into past societies, but also present and future populations in a rapidly changing world.
The Incas
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Author : Terence N. D'Altroy
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-04-30
The Incas written by Terence N. D'Altroy and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with Social Science categories.
The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs
Political Landscapes Of Capital Cities
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Author : Jessica Joyce Christie
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-08-08
Political Landscapes Of Capital Cities written by Jessica Joyce Christie and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-08 with Social Science categories.
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put forth in Adam T. Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities to expose the intimate associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate the sociopolitical needs of governmental authority. Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the historical, political, and cultural narratives of capital cities such as Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a careful visual analysis, hinging on the methodological tools of not only architectural and urban design but also cultural, historiographical, and anthropological studies. The collection provides further ways to conceive of how processes of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals differently without losing grasp of local distinctive architectural and spatial features. The essays also articulate the many complex political and ideological agendas of a diverse set of sovereign entities that planned, constructed, displayed, and performed their societal ideals in the spaces of their capitals, ultimately confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial. Contributors: Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Toxey, Alexei Vranich
A Prehistory Of South America
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Author : Jerry D. Moore
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2014-07-15
A Prehistory Of South America written by Jerry D. Moore and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Social Science categories.
A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.
Last Of The Incas
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Author : Luis Herrera
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-02-23
Last Of The Incas written by Luis Herrera and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-23 with Fiction categories.
I submerged myself among old books and found this character called Huascar. He is a character whose role history books never mention much. I came to look for a place and return it to its history. I embodied myself in it; I intermixed with his people; I learned their language; I learned their culture. Though Im part of their culture, I taught them the progress of my time in the future. I helped them to organize the tribe. I taught them to make weapons and to be benevolent, to take care of one another. He fell in love with a woman who mistook him as her old love for his enormous physical resemblance, a love that she called Huascar. Knowing the events of the future, Huascar assembled an army to deal with a group of tyrants commanded by a ruthless man named Francisco Pizarro. He had arrived from the other side of the world. Huascar had a brother who wuld be in danger, and Huascar decided to save him. Not only that, he wnted to save the land that saw him be born and thus avoid the scourge of poverty plaguing their land in the future. But there was no time to deal with them yet. Th ey had not yet arrived at its territory. So he decided to give knowledge to the tribe that housed it. It was also thanks to the help of his two old friends who shared adventures with him. Sorry, I meant them three as his mascot called Nio would also share with their adventures. The daily life with his tribe does make him love his people. He felt happy being with them, so much so that he had no intentions of returning to his life in the future. Luck was not on their side. The brother, who was trying to defend from the invaders, upon learning that he was back, changed plans and tried to ask for help from the invaders. The man called Huascar did not have much time and hurried to travel through lands dominated by his older brother, Atahualpa. Not only that, he also went through the lands overrun by invaders of many sites in Europe. Huascar didnt have much time, and he hurried to save his brother. He wanted to save the life of Atahualpa. He wanted to save the life of the last of the Inca.