Encyclopedia of the Incas

world’s end, the residents of Cuzco made as much noise as possible to ward off evil: they played ...

Curatola Petrocchi, Marco. “Adivinación, oráculos y civilización andina.” In Los dioses del antiguo Perú. Vo ...

Qari had political and ritual precedence over Cusi. In northern Potosí, Bolivia, this kind of mirror rel ...

E ECONOMY, HOUSEHOLD Household economy refers to how a household obtains and uses resources. It is often cont ...

conquered by the Incas, households may have included any one of these, and combinations as well. Second, arch ...

for instance, and sometimes colonies from a community moved to other environmental zones to grow c ...

resettled to increase maize production. The domestic economy, nevertheless, witnessed increasing socia ...

Further Reading D’Altroy, Terance. Provincial Power in the Inka Empire. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Pres ...

Tipón, a royal estate just south of Cuzco, featured elegant terracing and waterworks. Adriana von Hagen. These ...

the contrary, their placement and modes of access aggrandized the real and perceived power of the ...

instead, succession. His estate was designed as a statement of preference for a favorite secondary wife an ...

Wright, Kenneth R., and Alfredo Valencia Zegarra. Machu Picchu: A Civil Engineering Marvel. Reston, VA: ASCE Pres ...

more widespread dispersal of ayllus, the kin-based groupings that made up ethnic groups, to multiple ...

that many Andean villagers lived lives based on agriculture and herding, followed other cultural ...

legendary deeds of a prince named Inca Yupanqui, who led the defense of Cuzco against an invading army a ...

for the first time, scholars identified biases that raised questions about the accuracy of accounts. ...

in the Cuzco region, and for identifying an Inca presence that substantially predates the e ...

Covey, R. Alan. How the Incas Built Their Heartland: State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies ...

F FARMING Farming in the Andes dates back millennia. Although the Incas neither added to the technological re ...

altitude crops of the quechua zone included maize, quinoa, squashes of many varieties, beans of even mor ...