Book
Ancient Andean political economy
University of Texas Press • Austin • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Stanish, Charles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This research is based on a site survey and excavation of tombs and household dwellings in the Otora valley of southern coastal Peru. The time period covered ranges from the immediate post-Tanawaka period (ca. 1100 AD), time of the earliest settlements in the area, up to the Inca period. (beginning 1465). Most of the data consists of ceramic sherds, fish and camelid bones, and tomb and dwelling architecture. By distinguishing between domestic and non-domestic remains, Stanish is able to determine the degree of social heterogeneity and outside political control. According to Stanish, the settlement of the Otora valley represents an expansion of coastal kingdoms following the break up of the Tanawaka empire, which was centered on Lake Titicaca and originally colonized the coast. The coastal kingdoms remained independent of the Lake kingdoms that followed the Tanawaka, until after the Inca conquest.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Territorial hierarchy
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aymara Kingdoms
- 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
- Book
- 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
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charles Stanish
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91014442
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities