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Validation of the BOADICEA Model in a Prospective Cohort ofBRCA1/2Pathogenic Variant Carriers

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Yang X   +41 more
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Road to empire: documenting an Inca road in northern Ecuador

Ñawpa Pacha, 2010
Abstract The Inca faced fierce resistance from the Cayambes in the highlands of northern Ecuador, finally conquering the area shortly before the arrival of the Spanish. Despite their short occupation of the region, the Inca constructed a road eastward from the Pambamarca fortress complex through several ecological zones, complete with stone paving ...
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Innovative Technologies Used to Investigate Segments of the Inca Road

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 2013
AbstractSupported by a National Science Foundation, Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) grant and the Smithsonian Institute, two expeditions were made by teams of multidisciplinary researchers to the Andes Mountains of Peru to study the design and construction methods used to build the great Inca Road.
Jaselskis, Edward J.   +9 more
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The Archaeology of Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)

2020
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Throughout history, trails, paths, and roads have been fundamental components for the development of human societies, particularly in the case of those ...
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Highways to Empire: The Inca Road System

Civil Engineering Magazine, 2016
The road network built by the Incas included new and preexisting roads, and although it bound their empire together, it also hastened that empire's demise.
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Some roads do lead to Incallajta: the Inca double road from Vacas

Ñawpa Pacha, 2010
Abstract Archaeologists, historians, and others have offered numerous interpretations of the monumental Inca site of Incallajta in Bolivia, including a fortaleza, ciudadela, political, administrative or ceremonial center, a replica of Cuzco or some combination of all of these.
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The Algorithmic Andes: Quipu, Roads, and the Logic of Inca Imperial Control

The Inca Empire, Tawantinsuyu, remains one of history's most compelling examples of sophisticated statecraft achieved without a phonetic writing system. This paper argues that the Inca's extraordinary capacity for imperial control rested on an "algorithmic logic" embodied in two interconnected administrative pillars: the quipu (khipu) knot-record ...
Revista, Zen, HISTORY, 10
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The Inca Roads

Geographical Review, 1938
Wendell C. Bennett, Alberto Regal
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