Mapping the Cuzco Ceque System
Author(s): Brian Bauer; Matthew Piscitelli
Year: 2018
Summary
The Cuzco Ceque System was composed of 328 shrines (huacas) organized along 41 lines (ceques) that radiated out from the city of Cuzco, the Inca capital. Historic research indicates that the ceque system was conceptually linked to the fundamental social divisions of the Cuzco region. The ceque system of Cuzco has been frequently discussed in the literature, and anthropologists and historians have long speculated on the locations of shrines in the system and the projection of the ceque lines. The goal of this study is develop an empirical understanding of the distribution of the Inca shrines and the direction of the ceque lines across the Cuzco region using field data as well as Google Earth Pro.
Cite this Record
Mapping the Cuzco Ceque System. Brian Bauer, Matthew Piscitelli. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443857)
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Keywords
General
Andes: Early Horizon
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Digital Archaeology: GIS
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huacas, ceques, Inca, Cuzco
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Landscape Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
South America: Andes
Spatial Coverage
min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 19984