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Traditions of Tomb Construction during the Late Intermediate and Inka Periods (ca. 900–1532 CE) in the Vilcanota Valley, Peru (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Earle. Lina Macedo Molina.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Late Intermediate period (900–1400 CE), many communities throughout the Andean highlands built funerary towers (*chullpas) to inter the dead. The distribution of *chullpas has often been understood to materialize ethnic identity, territorial boundaries, and claims to natural resources. However, results of fieldwork carried out in the Vilcanota...