Provisioning Inka rule in NW Argentina

Summary

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 state facilities. The principal conclusions are that multiple circuits of production and distribution existed in the imperial infrastructure and that both imperial and subject agents used the network for their own purposes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• Ceramics of the Indigenous Peoples of South America: Studies of Production and Exchange using INAA

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