Sacred Valley (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Turner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 14th-16th centuries, the Inka Empire transformed Peru’s Urubamba Valley, located in the piedmont foothills of the eastern Andes, into an integrated landscape that was both economically productive and spiritually sacred. Extensive surveys have identified a shift whereby the Inka appear to have relocated settlements at higher elevations to the...