Prestige ceramics in Inca Qollasuyu : Production and distribution of imperial and regional ceramics in the southern Andes
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Among the hundreds of polities in the pre- European Americas, the Inca realm stood out for its scale and organizational capacities. By AD 1532, the Incas had created the most sophisticated administration of any indigenous American polity. Built on a pyramid of Inca overlords and provincial ethnic elites, Tawantinsuyu (“The Four Parts United”) encompassed 10–12 million closely tabulated inhabitants from hundreds of distinct ethnic groups (Figure 18.1). Together, they occupied a territory that covered about 1,000,000 km2 in Andean South America.
Fil: Williams, Veronica Isabel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; Argentina
Fil: D'Altroy, Terrence N.. Columbia University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Neff, Hector. California State University Long Beach. Department of Anthropology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Speakman, Robert J.. University of Georgia; Estados Unidos
Fil: Glascock, Michael D.. University of Missouri; Estados Unidos
Fil: Williams, Veronica Isabel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; Argentina
Fil: D'Altroy, Terrence N.. Columbia University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Neff, Hector. California State University Long Beach. Department of Anthropology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Speakman, Robert J.. University of Georgia; Estados Unidos
Fil: Glascock, Michael D.. University of Missouri; Estados Unidos
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QOLLASUYU, PRESTIGE CERAMICS, SOUTHERN ANDES, NEUTRONIC ACTIVATION, Otras Historia y Arqueología, Historia y Arqueología, HUMANIDADES