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A view of the plains from the mountainsessay 2001 • D'Altroy, Terence N.
Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia • Middle East > Middle East
D'Altroy calls the idea of the Temple-state one of the major intellectual insights in Mesopotamian studies. In this article the author comments on some of the advances made by other scholars, such as Algaze, Nissen, Pollock, Stein, Rothman, Schwartz ...Bibliographybook chapter 1992 • D'Altroy, Terence N.
Andean Regional States • South America > Central Andes
This document consists of bibliographical citations....The setting and research designbook chapter 1992 • D'Altroy, Terence N.
Andean Regional States • South America > Central Andes
This article discusses some of the work being done by the Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project (UMARP) in the Upper Mantaro Valley of Peru during the field periods of 1977-1980, 1982-1983, and 1986. Much of the study describes the geographic...Wanka society before the Inkasbook chapter 1992 • D'Altroy, Terence N.
Andean Regional States • South America > Central Andes
The intent of this article is to present a sketch of Wanka society (Wanka I and II) as it existed in the Late Intermediate Period in the Upper Mantaro and Yanamarca Valleys of Peru prior to the Inca (Inka) conquest. The author describes the two major...Provincial power in the Inka empirebook chapter 1992 • D'Altroy, Terence N.
Inka • South America > Central Andes
This study is an analysis of Inca military, political and economic power, based on historical sources and data from the Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project (UMARP). After considering a number of political economy models, D'Altroy settles on...Changing settlement patterns in the upper Mantaro Valley, Peruarticle 1980 • Earle, Timothy K. et al.
Andean Regional States • South America > Central Andes
This is a preliminary report of the Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project (UMARP). The first chapter is an introduction to UMARP, which has as its objective a study of economic and sociopolitical change in the late prehispanic periods in the ...