Conquer the South : From the First Contacts to the 'Integration'. Study of the Defensive Settlement Patterns' Evolutions and Modifications between the Late Intermediaite Period and the Late Horizon in the Tacna Region

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Lost in Transition: Social and Political Changes in the Central Southern Andes from the Late Prehispanic to the Early Colonial Periods" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the south Central Andes, in the upper basin of the Sama River, the fortresses built during the Late Intermediate Period to deal with the endemic conflicts that affected the Andes between the 14th and 15th centuries appeared to have undergone many modifications and to have been re-used when the Incas arrived in the region. As in other regions of the Andes, the first contacts with the Incas are still poorly understood, but the excavations have shown that some fortified sites were abandoned very early when, on the contrary, others seem to have experienced an important Inca occupation. The region of Tacna seems to have been a true strategic crossroads between the regions of Moquegua, the altiplano and northern Chile but it also appears to have been little marked by its integration into the empire. This paper will try to understand the strategies put in place by the pre-Hispanic populations during this transition period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Lost in Transition: Social and Political Changes in the Central Southern Andes from the Late Prehispanic to the Early Colonial Periods   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24935