Landscape, Social Memory, and Materiality at Calchaqui Valley during Inka Domination in Northwest Argentina

Author(s): Veronica Williams

Year: 2016

Summary

Within its territory, the Inka adapted their rule of such diverse spheres as political economy, ideology, and identity, among others, which explains in part the diversity and disparity seen in the empire. In Collasuyu, Inka buildings were common but it is evident that their features, dimensions, monumentality and spatial density show contrasting regional differences. New evidence regarding Inka occupation in Northwest Argentina shows different situations of Inka conquest and domination expressed in landscape, memory, and materiality, as seen through the example of the complex process of population assimilation in the Calchaqui valley.

Cite this Record

Landscape, Social Memory, and Materiality at Calchaqui Valley during Inka Domination in Northwest Argentina. Veronica Williams. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403523)

Keywords

General
Landscape Memory

Geographic Keywords
South America

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;