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STORAGE
The dramatic reports of great cities, highways, and storehouses made by
chroniclers of the early Conquest period have long framed our understanding of
the Inca state economy. And yet, while descriptions by early chroniclers such as
Miguel de Estete and Pedro de Cieza de León of the stockpiles of food, cloth,
and weapons at highland centers such as Cajamarca and Cuzco provide a
fascinating vision of a state able to mobilize and control vast quantities of
agricultural and craft products, a detailed understanding of the social institutions
that actually lay behind these state storage facilities has proved more elusive.
Storerooms at the coastal settlement of Incahuasi in Peru’s Cañete valley. Adriana
von Hagen.