Inka, ceramics, economics, politics, NAA (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terence Daltroy. Veronica Williams.

For all its standardization, Inka rule regularly accommodated regional circumstances. This paper uses NAA of 316 sherds to examine how activities carried out under state auspices were provisioned in NW Argentina, and how local societies took advantage of the Inka presence for their own interests. We address how well the organization of administrative and economic spaces coincided, and what role the region’s subject peoples played in determining the character of material assemblages used at...