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Steven R. Gullberg, Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky

open access: yesJournal of Skyscape Archaeology, 2021
Steven R. Gullberg, Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. Hardback, 370 pp., 42 b/w illus., 275 colour illus. ISBN 978-3-030-48365. €135.19.
B. Bauer
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PERIPHERY/CORE RELATIONS IN THE INCA EMPIRE CARROTS AND STICKS IN AN ANDEAN WORLD SYSTEM

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2015
The Inca Empire exhibited labor exploitation and the rational extraction of resources from peripheral polities by a core polity. These characteristics fit the general definition of a world empire, although core/periphery relations were diverse.
Lawrence A. Kuznar
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Apuntes sobre el Período Intermedio Tardío y la presencia inca en la cuenca alta del río Ricrán, sierra central del Perú

open access: yesEstudios Atacameños, 2005
Se presentan evidencias arqueológicas inca registradas en la sección superior del valle de Ricrán, sierra central del Perú. Tras revisar la información correspondiente al Período Intermedio Tardío, se evalúa el carácter de la ocupación incaica en la ...
Manuel Perales
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Negociando el imperio: el Estado inca como culto

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2008
This paper makes a connection between the Inca belief system and the construction of a multi-ethnic state structure to reassess the motivating factors for Inca expansion.
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
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Paullu y Manco ¿una diarquía inca en tiempos de conquista?

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2007
This work examines the nature of Inca Paullu’s relationship with Collasuyo that led Diego de Almagro (1535) and Gonzalo Pizarro (1538) to take him during the Spanish Conquest to the southern region of the Inca Empire.
Ximena Medinaceli
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Representations of western Amazonian indians on Inca colonial qeros

open access: yesRevista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2007
This article proposes to put together an iconographical analysis of Inca colonial qeros, offering an insight into Inca history where one can observe, in visual format, one of the media of expression the Incas used in order to disseminate their values and
Cristina Bertazoni
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Counting and Arithmetic of the Inca [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática, 2012
The Inca Empire - the greatest pre-Columbian empire on the American continent - extended from Ecuador to central Chile for more than five thousand miles. Its capital was Cuzco established in the high Peruvian Andes.
Ximena Catepillán, Waclaw Szymanski
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¿Qué significaba el término inka?

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2019
This article deals with referents and the signified of the term inka from the double perspective of history and linguistics. It shows that the Incas were not a nobility nor an ethnic group but a military association.
César Itier
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Dating the Expansion of the Inca Empire: Bayesian Models from Ecuador and Argentina

open access: yesRadiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, 2017
The chronology of the Inca Empire has traditionally relied on ethnohistoric dates, which suggest that a northern expansion into modern Ecuador began in AD 1463 and a southern expansion into modern Argentina began in AD 1471. We test the validity of these
Erik J. Marsh   +3 more
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Putting the rise of the Inca Empire within a climatic and land management context [PDF]

open access: yesClimate of the Past, 2009
The rapid expansion of the Inca from the Cuzco area of highland Peru (ca. AD 1400–1532) produced the largest empire in the New World. Although this meteoric growth may in part be due to the adoption of innovative societal strategies, supported by a large
A. J. Chepstow-Lusty   +7 more
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