Encyclopedia of the Incas
PACHACUTI YAMQUI SALCAMAYGUA, JOAN DE SANTA CRUZ This indigenous, probably Aymara-speaking Andean man, ...
objects as idolatrous images that some (his favored) Incas had overcome, or rejected, in favor of a ...
politicized affair, with contests among the dead king’s kinfolk, wives, and their children. The successor ...
Born in Lima in 1939, Franklin Pease was a Peruvian historian who specialized in the study of And ...
Spaniards of the treasures in Cuzco and of the subsequent siege of Cuzco by Manco Inca, in 1536. Pedro Piz ...
■ADRIANA VON HAGEN PLANNING, SETTLEMENT As Tahuantinsuyu expanded, the Incas launched a massive construction ...
The so-called “Intihuatana sector” at Pisac above the Urubamba River features finely fitted masonry. The sto ...
physical form, but instead “in the meaning and the functions of the form.” They argued that, if one disregards phy ...
rectangular buildings arranged more or less symmetrically around an open court and is often surrounded by ...
Tambo Colorado in Peru’s Pisco valley is one of the best preserved Inca coastal settlements. Built of ...
most elaborate waterworks dedicated to the cult of water are found at royal estates in the Cuzco h ...
carry out inquests on a variety of matters—including encomienda rights, mining, Inca mummies, and ...
was coined by the Spaniards, based on the name of the ethnic group who spoke it, and could be formally recons ...
ethnic group became equated with the Aymara language, consigning the Puquina-Colla peoples to oblivi ...
Q QUARRYING AND STONECUTTING Although the majority of Inca structures are built of uncut stone assembled w ...
hundred metric tons) has been the subject of wild speculation. These conjectures range from the intervention ...
miles) south of Cuzco, even the densest and best bedrock is fissured enough so that blocks can easily be b ...
To rough out, cut, and dress stone, the Incas used simple river cobbles as hammers. These ...
Detail of a terrace wall at Tarahuasi, west of Cuzco, composed of stones fitted in the polygonal style. A ...
Unfinished walls reveal that Inca stonemasons left the top face of every new course uncut until it was ...
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