Chimú (Other Keyword)

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Chimú-Inka Ceramics: Quantifying differences between Colonial forms and their influences (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Siegler.

Between 1428 and 1534 the Inka conquered the world’s largest territory controlled by a single state including 1300 km of coastline from the 1460 conquest of their main rivals, the Chimú. Studies on Inka provincial administrative policies are increasingly important in understanding the pre-conquest Andes, however, there has been no study of the effects of Inka subjugation on the art of their most powerful former enemy. Ceramics from the Chimú-Inka period offer a striking example of how...


Revising Empire: Chimú and Inka Ceramic Morphology at Santa Rita B (Chao Valley, Peru) (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Aland. R. Alan Covey. Robert Z. Selden. Astrid Runggaldier.

This is an abstract from the "From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Populations in the Chao Valley of coastal Peru experienced successive waves of imperial expansion from about AD 1350 to the mid-sixteenth century. In relatively short order, the Chimú, Inka, and Spanish empires each established varying degrees of control over the valley. The site of Santa Rita B offers...