Encyclopedia of the Incas
influence of works produced under the Viceroy Toledo, especially the chronicle of Sarmiento de Gamboa, in w ...
combined archival research with visits to archaeological sites. Garcilaso retained his popularity among his ...
Further Reading Betanzos, Juan de. Narrative of the Incas. Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton and Dana ...
M MACHU PICCHU The most iconic of all Inca settlements, Machu Picchu perches on a granite ridge amid lush ...
Research suggests that Machu Picchu may have transformed over the period of its occupation from a defen ...
Machu Picchu sits high above the Urubamba River surrounded by forested peaks. It may have served as a ro ...
offerings signal that they were mostly low-status mitmacuna laborers (see Labor Service), who occupied ...
A long-haired llama made of crimped silver sheet metal, 23.8 centimeters (9.4 inches) tall. These special l ...
smelted in the Americas prior to the European invasion in the^ sixteenth century. In the Andes, copper became ...
Incas dispatched Chimú metalsmiths to Cuzco and other leading Inca centers to continue their specialized ...
During the Andean Middle Horizon (AD 540–900) a variety of bronze alloys was in widespread use throughout the ...
Mining and metallurgy formed an integral part of the Inca political economy. The Incas mined copper, gold, ...
turquoise mine in the Atacama region of northern Chile, is one of the best preserved examples ...
Berthelot, Jean. “The Extraction of Precious Metals at the Time of the Inca.” In Anthropological History of A ...
aimed at cleansing the city of ills, in August-September; and Capac Raymi, the great festival of the sun l ...
The mummy of Huayna Capac, who died in Ecuador apparently of smallpox, is borne on a litter to Cuzco along ...
made one of their last public appearances in December 1533 for the investiture of Manco Inca, one of Huay ...
bundles indicate that the mummification process must have taken some time. The skin appears ...
PhD in 1956. He subsequently taught at the University of Puerto Rico (1947– 1950), Vassar College (1950–1961), ...
Murra formulated the core principles of the vertical archipelago economic model primarily from his readin ...
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