Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and cUlture)

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The Cuzco Valley of Peru was once both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas—the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled no less than eight million people in a realm that stretched from brand new-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, regardless of its great importance in the cultural development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently received the similar roughly systematic archaeological survey long since conducted at other New World centers of civilization.

Drawing on the result of the Cuzco Valley Archaeological Project that Brian Bauer directed from 1994 to 2000, this landmark book undertakes the first general overview of the prehistory of the Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca. 7000 B.C.) to the fall of the Inca Empire in A.D. 1532. Combining archaeological survey and excavation data with historical records, the book addresses both the specific patterns of settlement in the Cuzco Valley and the larger processes of cultural development. With its wealth of new information, this book will develop into the baseline for research at the Inca and the Cuzco Valley for future years.

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