The Storage Systems in the South Coast Region: The Case of the Cañete Valley

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Political Economies on the Andean Coast" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Undoubtedly, storage systems played a key role in Inca political and economic organization in the Andes. The Inca state employed these goods stored for different purposes, such as supporting military campaigns, financing state works, and hosting ceremonial activities. However, most research on Inca storage has focused on the storage facilities located in the highlands of Peru and linked directly to an imperial scale. In contrast, some researchers have admitted the difficulty of associating the deposits of coastal groups with the Inca imperial agenda. In this presentation, we will discuss existing models on the role of storage systems in the Inca economy and present the case of the Cañete valley, located on the south coast of Peru, one of the regions with the largest number of deposits on the coast. The storage infrastructure on different scales in the Cañete valley will be critical to developing a future research agenda regarding the changes and continuities of the Inca economy on the coast.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Political Economies on the Andean Coast   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37379.0