Encyclopedia of the Incas

Alpacas, valued for their silky fiber, in their corrals in the southern Andes of Peru. Daniel Huillca. TA ...

A family and their small herd of llamas in Canas, Cuzco, Peru. Nieves Callasi. TAFOS Photographic Archive ...

used in marriage rituals, offerings, sacrifice, and burned with coca leaves for divination. Camelid bon ...

receded. Garcilaso maintains that during lunar eclipses the howling of tied and beaten dogs awakened ...

the smaller quadrant. The Inca province of Chachapoyas, for example, which straddled the eastern slopes of th ...

The cloud forest settlement of Choquequirao perches high above the Apurimac River west of Cuzco, in the pro ...

Chokepuquio in the Cuzco valley, Peru, flourished after the fall of Huari ca. AD 1000 and before the rise o ...

located some 50–80 kilometers (30–50 miles) from the urban core. Archaeological surveys and excavations have ...

Cuzco, for example, was a large group consolidated as Incas by Privilege. Their possible center, Ak’awillay ...

The Huari site of Pikillacta in the Cuzco valley, Peru, predated the rise of the Incas by several centuries. ...

provided by Cuzco valley quarries such as Wacoto and Rumicollca (see Quarrying and Stonecutting). A ...

from the Coricancha and connected at least 328 shrines (huacas). Ceque surveys found that named sacred plac ...

architecture was designed to manifest the Incas’ integration with the sacred landscape and ...

A double-jamb, exterior niche at the temple of Huaytará, one of several settlements with fine architecture ...

and motifs enabled the largely unskilled labor force to erect a multitude of imperial Inca site ...

that stored food, drink, and other goods, such as the akahuasi (house of aka, or maize beer; chicha), ...

On the coast the Incas built with adobe and occasionally in stone; here the site of Paramonga on Peru’ ...

Dean, Carolyn. “The Inka Married the Earth: Integrated Outcrops and the Making of Place.” Art Bulletin 89, no. ...

records show that the Incas employed a wide range of arithmetical operations, including addition, sub ...

A yupana, a device used to tally sums with kernels of maize or small stones, can be seen in the lowe ...