distances across the Andean countryside, such as one that extended from Cuzco
to Lake Titicaca and the site of Tiahuanaco. This very long ceque line was
important in directing the movement of priests going in procession from Cuzco
on pilgrimage to the Island of the Sun, in Lake Titicaca, at the time of the June
solstice.
Further Reading
Aveni, A. F. “Horizon Astronomy in Incaic Cuzco.” In Archaeoastronomy in the Americas, edited by R. A.
Williamson, 305–18. Los Altos, CA: Ballena Press, 1981.
Bauer, B. S. “The Original Ceque Manuscript.” In Structure, Knowledge, and Representation in the Andes.
Studies Presented to Reiner Tom Zuidema on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Journal of the Steward
Anthropological Society, vol. 2, 277–98. Urbana: Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
———. The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1998.
Cobo, Bernabé. Inca Religion and Customs. Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1990 [1653].
Hyslop, J. Inkawasi, the New Cuzco: Cañete, Lunahuaná, Peru. B.A.R. International Series 234. Oxford:
B.A.R., 1985.
Rowe, J. H. “An Account of the Shrines of Ancient Cuzco.” Ñawpa Pacha, no. 17: 2–80, 1979.
———. “Una relación de los adoratorios del antiguo Cuzco.” Histórica 5, no. 2: 209–61, 1981.
Zuidema, R. Tom. The Ceque System of Cuzco: The Social Organization of the Capital of the Inca. Leiden,
Netherlands: E. J Brill, 1964.
———. “Bureaucracy and Systematic Knowledge in Andean Civilization.” In The Inca and Aztec States,
1400–1800: Anthropology and History, edited by George A. Collier, Renato I. Rosaldo, and John D.
Wirth, 419–58. New York: Academic Press, 1982.
■GARY URTON
CERAMICS
Scattered throughout the territory that once comprised the Inca Empire are
fragments of the richly decorated polychrome pottery that distinguish Inca
ceramics from earlier styles and point to their manufacture during the Late
Horizon time period (see Chronology, Pre-Inca; Chronology, Inca). The
degree of standardization in the forms and decoration of these wares, as well as
their widespread distribution, hint at the importance of this category of material
culture to the larger imperial project. The study of Inca pottery offers insights
into many different aspects of Inca society and state policy, including the
organization of production, consumption and culinary practices, the ways in
which status and identity were negotiated, and imperial ideology.