The Negotiated Yunga-Inka Landscape of the Camata-Carijana Valley

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Camata-Carijana Valley is situated on the eastern frontier of the Inka Empire in the Kallawaya domain and was inhabited by Chuncho groups from the tropical piedmont. To assess the relationships between these groups, the distribution of three key landscape features (community settlements, road network, and agrarian terracing) is placed on a spectrum of possible colonial landscapes from a state-controlled landscape (Model 1) to a locally produced landscape (Model 2). Particular attention is paid to the architectural construction of settlements, their location on the prehispanic roads, and their association with types of agrarian terraces. It is concluded that the inhabitants were able to form local spaces of agency and take advantage of their Inka ties while living within largely a state-directed landscape. The locals established a new identity that tied them both to the lowland groups and to the highland Inka.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces

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Abstract Id(s): 32239