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Chiquitoy Viejo: an Inca administrative center in the Chicama Valley, Peru
Journal of field archaeology • 4 (1) • Published In 1977 • Pages: 1-17
By: Conrad, Geoffrey W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents some of the results of excavations at Chiquitoy Viejo, a site built after the Inka conquest of the Chimu. Although the site appears to be an Inka road waystation or [i]tampu[/i], it is atypical. It was probably an Inka administrative center built to supervise commerce and inspect shipments of high status goods or tribute being sent to Cuzco along the coastal highway. The site consists of a walled access road off the highway, a large open area where goods could be inspected and caravans unloaded, housing for an official and housing for the official’s retainers, and a burial platform. The burial platform supports an interpretation that the site was built for one official and then abandoned during the second official’s tenure, probably due to the Spanish Conquest.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Regulation of travel
- Highways and bridges
- Public structures
- Burial practices and funerals
- Highway transport
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Administrative agencies
- Miscellaneous government activities
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chimu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 538-466 BP (1462-1534 AD)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chiquitoy Viejo, Santiago de Cao, Ascope (Chicama Valley) La Libertad, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Geoffrey W. Conrad
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75641025
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chimu