Encyclopedia of the Incas

Men preparing a field for planting using the chakitaclla, or foot plow, in Ayaviri, Puno, Peru. Sebasti ...

Maize was the most important crop to the Incas, and was used both as a food and a drink when ferment ...

governing elite—at once establishes both social relations and social hierarchy. The recognition that feasts a ...

large, central plazas were the focal points of these sites, rather than any specific buildings. The size and ...

Morris, Craig, and Donald Thompson. Huánuco Pampa: An Andean City and Its Hinterland. London: Thames and Hudson, ...

The empire often reserved the finest garments, especially feather cloth, for its soldiers. The description by Bern ...

established centuries earlier. As the empire grew, the number of tropical regions supplying feathers grew ...

Women in Ocongate, south of Cuzco, sort potatoes, an Andean native and staple. Several hundred varieties of ...

(Pouteria lucuma); and wild herbaceous plants. They also domesticated nonfood plants, most prominently gour ...

All social events were marked with food exchanges. Feasting activities occurred with the conquest of ...

centered on maize and meat. Not only were these two foods the focus of Inca food production, they bec ...

development. (Exceptions are northern Chile near the Atacama region, which may correspond to a ...

built as a blanket policy, but as needed, to support difficult campaigns of expansion or cou ...

In this drawing by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Native troops storm a pucara, or fortress. Guaman Poma de ...

are interspersed among larger, heavily fortified, permanently occupied forts with stockpiles of slingstones. While ...

the following year; see Vilcabamba). This is not to deny the symbolic and psychological impact ...

G GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, EL INCA Born of a Spanish father and an Inca mother, Garcilaso’s chro ...

chroniclers, namely José de Acosta, Pedro de Cieza de León, and especially from the notes of another Peruv ...

parish priest in Cuzco, he served initially as parish priest in Juli and, after his time in Cuzco, as ...

Further Reading González Holguín, Diego. Vocabulario. Instituto de Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILL ...