Movement, Inka Ceques and the Sajama Lines of Bolivia

Summary

When the Inkas encountered them, the Carangas ethnic group in western Bolivia were highly mobile through lifestyles that relied on camelid pastoralism, caravanning, and ritual movement. Examples of Inka sites are known in the region, but it is not fully understood how they impacted movement through the Sajama lines--a network of ritual pathways that stretches over 16,000 kilometers. This poster compares new data from 2017 to previous work in the Sajama region to examine how movement along the Sajama lines changed over time, from prior to the Inka till recent memory. Through GIS, both archaeological and modern sites are compared to examine proximity to ritual pathways as well as logics of movement through termination points and directionality of geoglyphs. The goal of this research is to provide a comparison between the ceques of Cusco and the Sajama lines to examine how the Sajama lines may have been adapted to Inka understandings of ritual movement.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20259