Chachapoya, Inca, cultural landscapes, settlement pattern (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Inge Schjellerup.

The Chachapoya and the Incas had different perceptions of the landscape concerning settlement, agriculture and communication and each of them transformed the olriginal landscape into a cultural landscape with the construction of monumental architecture and enormous investment in agricultural intensification in the form of various types of terraces. The objective is to illustrate how historical sources and archaeological investigations together contribute to the understanding of the nature and...