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Inca Transformations of the Chachapoya Region

2018
The goal of this chapter is to reconstruct the socioeconomic impact that Inca rule had on the Chachapoya and the geographic landscape they inhabited. By using different lines of evidence, including archaeology and ethnohistory, supplemented with botanic and bioarchaeological data, this chapter explores the complex relations that the Inca established ...
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Mining, macro-regional interaction and ritual practices in the South-central Andes: The first evidence for turquoise exploitation from the Late Prehispanic and Inca periods in North-western Argentina (Cueva Inca Viejo, Puna de Salta)

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018
Abstract In this article, we present the first and only documented source of turquoise exploited in Northwest Argentina (NOA) from the Late Prehispanic and Inca periods (ca. 900–1532 CE). The evidence for turquoise mining comes from Cueva Inca Viejo, an archaeological site located in the highlands of Province of Salta. Turquoise is a valuable mineral
Lopez, Gabriel Eduardo Jose, Coloca, Federico Ignacio, Rosenbusch, Mariana Lidia, Sola, Patricia   +3 more
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The Spread of Inca Power in the Cuzco Region

2018
Colonial documents demonstrate that the Incas thought about and described their origins in different ways: as the invention of a unique imperial ruling title, as the genealogy of royal households descended from previous rulers, and as the unification of many Cuzco area groups to create an imperial heartland.
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LAND-USE REGIONS IN THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE INCA EMPIRE

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1965
ABSTRACT The Central Andean civilization was developed within a fairly well-defined ecumene (oekumene), beyond which the possibilities for expansion were limited. With population increase each pattern of land use was extended into all physically suitable areas.
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Tourism in poor regions and social inclusion: the porters of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

World Leisure Journal, 2011
In this paper, tourism's role as an agent of social exclusion/inclusion is examined in the context of the integration of Peruvian Southern Andean communities into the global tourism industry as porters on the Inca Trail. This is an arduous four-day hike leading to the archaeological complex of Machu Picchu.
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Prestige ceramics in Inca Qollasuyu : Production and distribution of imperial and regional ceramics in the southern Andes

2019
Fil: D'Altroy, Terrence N..
Williams, Veronica Isabel, D'Altroy, Terrence N., Neff, Hector, Speakman, Robert J., Glascock, Michael D.   +4 more
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Convening spaces for the Inca: Volcanoes and circulation of pottery and people in a macro‐regional perspective (northwestern Argentina region)

Archaeometry
Abstract This study explores the role of tambo San Francisco (4000 m a.s.l.), located near the Incahuasi volcano and associated high‐altitude sanctuary (6638 m a.s.l.), as a potential aggregation site for political commensalism and religious pilgrimage within the Inca Empire.
Norma Ratto, Martin Orgaz, Marco Giovannetti, Guillermo de La Fuente, Rita Plá   +4 more
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Effects of a restricted elimination diet on the behaviour of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (INCA study): a randomised controlled trial

Lancet, The, 2011
Lidy M Pelsser, Klaas Frankena, Jan K Buitelaar   +2 more
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Identification of IncA/C Plasmid Replication and Maintenance Genes and Development of a Plasmid Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2017
Steven J Hancock, Minh-Duy Phan, Brian M Forde   +2 more
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Regional Archaeology in the Inca Heartland

2014
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