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Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomed Res Int, 2015
This study will focus on frozen mummies of sacrificial victims from mounts Llullaillaco (6739 m), Quehuar (6130 m), El Toro (6160 m), and the Aconcagua massif. These finds provide bioarchaeological data from mountaintop sites that has been recovered in scientifically controlled excavations in the northwest of Argentina, which was once part of the ...
Ceruti MC.
europepmc   +2 more sources

What the iberian conquest bequeathed to us: the fruit trees introduced in argentine subtropic-their history and importance in present traditional medicine. [PDF]

open access: yesEvid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013
This contribution presents information about the history of introduction, establishment, and local appropriation of Eurasian fruit trees—species and varieties of the genera Prunus and Citrus—from 15th century in two rural areas of Northern Argentina. By means of an ethnobotanical and ethnohistorical approach, our study was aimed at analysing how this ...
Stampella PC   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

LOS CAMINOS CEREMONIALES EN LOS APUS DEL TAWANTINSUYU [PDF]

open access: yesChungara, 2020
espanolResumen: En el proceso de expansion territorial de los Incas, los sistemas viales jugaron un rol estructural fundamental, llegando a conformar -a traves de la infraestructura edilicia- una suerte de continuidad espacial desde la capital del Tawantinsuyu hasta las lejanas periferias.
exaly   +2 more sources

EL TAWANTINSUYU EN ACONCAGUA (CHILE CENTRAL)

open access: yesChungara, 2004
Presentamos una interpretacion de la materialidad del Tawantinsuyu, en el curso superior del rio Aconcagua. Exploramos las relaciones que se establecieron entre las culturas locales y el Inka, y las estrategias que este utilizo para acceder a esta periferica area de su "imperio".
exaly   +3 more sources

New Data on Food Consumption in Pre‐Hispanic Populations from Northwest Argentina (ca. 1000–1550 A.D.): The Contribution of Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Human Bones

open access: yesJournal of Anthropology, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013
We present data on carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of human bones from Tolombón (Calchaqui Valley, Salta) and Esquina de Huajra (Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy) sites located in Northwest Argentina (NWA). Both are complex archaeological residential settlements ascribed to the Regional Development Period (ca.
María Soledad Gheggi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE TAWANTINSUYU IN ALLAQMARCA, CARAYBAMBA, AYMARAES PROVINCE, APURIMAC

open access: yesArqueología y Sociedad, 2014
The state of Tawantinsuyu got to include in its maximum expansion, almost the entire territory of the Andes. To achieve this magnificent expansion had to absorb the different sociopolitical entities occupying the Andes at different latitudes. This situation was made possible by implementing a series of political domination strategies, applied according
van Dalen Luna, Pieter   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
wiley   +1 more source

L’intégration andine à l’époque du Tawantinsuyu

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques latines, 2005
Cet article propose une vision synthétique de la formation de l’empire inca dans les Andes tout au long du XVe siècle et des méthodes de domination mises en œuvre dans les régions soumises à Cuzco. Si celles-ci prirent des formes variées (promotion d’une langue commune, colonies de peuplement, etc.), les alliances personnelles négociées entre l’Inka et
openaire   +2 more sources

Tawantinsuyu

open access: yes, 2003
En el presente trabajo, Pärssinen analiza y recopila los conocimientos concernientes a la expansión inca, y a los principios y estructuras politicas de aquel estado multiétnico al que los propios Incas lamaron Tawantinsuyu. Gracias al uso *de métodos interdisciplinarios y muchas « nuevas » e inéditats fuentes archivísticas, entre las que figuran ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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