Colonial enclaves of coastal Colesuyo during the Inca influence

Summary

How small communities of coastal Colesuyo were transformed under Inca authority? What roles were played by local and regional elites? Previous worked conducted at the coastal site of Tacahuay has suggested that this site was an altiplano enclave controlled by more powerful Lupaca group. This enclave was established with the aim of obtaining coastal products, and in return Tacahuay elites would have access to Inca sumptuary goods. In this session I present different lines of analyses for future work that will be conducted at Tacahuay with the focus of responding: How were altiplano enclaves established at the coast? Were family ties established by intermarriage relations between altiplano lineages and coastal elites? How does the economy of a coastal enclave permit us to observe economies as complex webs of interactions with the altiplano, Inca and local communities?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Colonial Encounters in the Prehispanic Andes

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