The Chanka

Author : Brian S. Bauer,Lucas C. Kellett,Miriam Araoz Silva
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770302

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The Chanka by Brian S. Bauer,Lucas C. Kellett,Miriam Araoz Silva Pdf

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.

Author : Danielle Shawn Kurin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319284040

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The Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Peru by Danielle Shawn Kurin Pdf

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.

Author : Hans Barnard
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446322

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Archaeology Outside the Box by Hans Barnard Pdf

Archaeology Outside the Box makes contemporary archaeology germane to the general public as well as to researchers in other disciplines. In thirty-one richly illustrated chapters, a wide variety of projects is presented by an international group of anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, and artists. These aim to broaden the applicability of archaeology by reflecting on archaeological remains in novel ways, or by addressing contemporary concerns with archaeological theory and research methods. Demonstrating the fascinating and pertinent nature of archaeology, the authors go far beyond its definition as a discipline that unearths objects of ancient material culture. Many chapters also provide arguments relevant to the soul-searching discussions currently taking place within archaeology worldwide and accelerated by the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

Author : Sabine Hyland
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271077611

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The Chankas and the Priest by Sabine Hyland Pdf

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.

Author : Izumi Shimada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292760790

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The Inka Empire by Izumi Shimada Pdf

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.

Author : Lucas C. Kellett,Eric Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317369677

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Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas by Lucas C. Kellett,Eric Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Danielle Shawn Kurin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000478983

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The Bioarchaeology of Disaster by Danielle Shawn Kurin Pdf

The Bioarchaeology of Disaster examines two dozen disasters occurring around the world over the past 2000 years, ranging from natural and environmental disasters to human conflict and warfare, from epidemics to those of social marginalization—all from a bioarchaeological and forensic anthropological perspective. Each case study provides the social, cultural, historical and ecological context of the disaster and then analyzes evidence of human and related remains in order to better understand the identities of victims, the means, processes, and extent of deaths and injuries. The methods used by specialists to interpret evidence and disagreements among experts are also addressed. It will be helpful in understanding the circumstances of a range of disasters and the multidisciplinary ways in which bioarchaeologists employ empirical methods and analytic frameworks to interpret their impacts and consequences. The book is intended for those in the social and biological sciences, particularly archaeology, forensics, history and ethnography. It will also be of interest to those in medical history and epidemiology, ecological studies, and those involved in disaster response, law enforcement and human rights work.

Author : American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Annual meeting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107045446

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Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence by American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Annual meeting Pdf

Case studies on violent deaths from the past and present vividly illustrate how anthropologists construct meaning from the victim's bones.

Author : César Paternosto
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0292765657

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The Stone and the Thread by César Paternosto Pdf

"Shows that precolumbian tectonic forms (especially as found in sculpture and weaving) appear to be an overlooked source, or anticipation, of much of the art of the 20th century. Second part of book deals with artifacts as American art and addresses reception of ancient tectonics in the 20th century. Emphasizes intense relationship that some members of the New York School (particularly Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb) had during 1940s with the aboriginal arts of the North American part of the hemisphere and thus the affinities between their work and the work of the older Torres Garcâia in Montevideo, at the other end of the continent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Author : Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000584196

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The Ancient Central Andes by Jeffrey Quilter Pdf

The Ancient Central Andes presents a general overview of the prehistoric peoples and cultures of the Central Andes, the region now encompassing most of Peru and significant parts of Ecuador, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina. The book contextualizes past and modern scholarship and provides a balanced view of current research. Two opening chapters present the intellectual, political, and practical background and history of research in the Central Andes and the spatial, temporal, and formal dimensions of the study of its past. Chapters then proceed in chronological order from remote antiquity to the Spanish Conquest. A number of important themes run through the book, including: the tension between those scholars who wish to study Peruvian antiquity on a comparative basis and those who take historicist approaches; the concept of "Lo Andino," commonly used by many specialists that assumes long-term, unchanging patterns of culture some of which are claimed to persist to the present; and culture change related to severe environmental events. Consensus opinions on interpretations are highlighted as are disputes among scholars regarding interpretations of the past. The Ancient Central Andes provides an up-to-date, objective survey of the archaeology of the Central Andes that is much needed. Students and interested readers will benefit greatly from this introduction to a key period in South America’s past.

Author : Bruce G. Trigger,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Richard E. W. Adams,Frank Salomon,Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521630754

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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas by Bruce G. Trigger,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Richard E. W. Adams,Frank Salomon,Stuart B. Schwartz Pdf

Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Author : Lorna Tilley,Alecia A. Schrenk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319399010

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New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care by Lorna Tilley,Alecia A. Schrenk Pdf

New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past. Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual survived with, or following, a serious pathology suggests this person most likely received some form of care from others. This observation was first made half a century ago, but it is only in the last five years that health-related caregiving has been accepted as a topic for bioarchaeology research. In this time, interest has grown exponentially. A focus on care provides a dynamic framework for examining the experiences of disease and disability in the past - at the level of the individual receiving care, and that of the community providing it. When caregiving can be identified in the archaeological record, bioarchaeologists may be able to offer unique insights into aspects of past lifeways. This volume represents the work of an international, diverse, cross-disciplinary group of contributors, each bringing their own particular focus, style and expertise to analyzing past health-related care. Nineteen chapters offer content that ranges from an introduction to the basic 'bioarchaeology of care' approach, through original case studies of care provision, to new theoretical perspectives in this emerging area of scholarship. This book creates a synergy that challenges our thinking about past health-related care behaviors and about the implications of these behaviors for understanding the social environment in which they took place.

Author : Katharina J. Schreiber
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703265

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Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru by Katharina J. Schreiber Pdf

Author : Michael A. Malpass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501703935

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Ancient People of the Andes by Michael A. Malpass Pdf

In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing system, making archaeology the only way we know about most of the prehispanic societies of the Andes. The earliest Spaniards on the continent provided first-person accounts of the latest of those societies, and, as descendants of the Inkas became literate, they too became a source of information. Both ethnohistory and archaeology have limitations in what they can tell us, but when we are able to use them together they are complementary ways to access knowledge of these fascinating cultures. Malpass focuses on large anthropological themes: why people settled down into agricultural communities, the origins of social inequalities, and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity. Ample illustrations, including eight color plates, visually document sites, societies, and cultural features. Introductory chapters cover archaeological concepts, dating issues, and the region's climate. The subsequent chapters, divided by time period, allow the reader to track changes in specific cultures over time.

Author : Andreas,REPLICA BOOKS
Publisher : Mind Adventure Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425705855

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Flying Boat by Andreas,REPLICA BOOKS Pdf

The Flying Boat is an account of the adventures of the sole survivor of an interplanetary space expedition. After traveling back in time he crashes in the Inca, where he lives and becomes one of them. His high-tech knowledge and tools enable him to become a high-ranking Inca, marries Inca princess, and becomes an emperor himself. The Flying Boat is an artful blend of adventure, history, high technology and fiction with actual remains. It challenges the incredulous to come up with another explanation of the evidence left by the Incas accomplishments.