Inka Dynamics in the Cochabamba Valley

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

After expansion from Cuzco, the Inca introduced a statecraft model based principally on the mobilization of numerous population groups across longer and shorter distances. In this sense, the Inca Empire can be conceptualized as a “mobile state” that was to last for only 80 to 100 years (1445-1538 AD). Inca influence in the area of Bolivia was moderate until the reign of Huayna Capac (1491-1527 AD), when it experienced massive population replacements through the colonization of 14,000 mitimaes to work on the Inca state fields in Cochabamba. The original population groups were sent to the eastern borders. The principal interest of the State was the fertile valley bottom and the production of surplus and staple food for further conquests. The valley played a highly important role in the organization of the empire. The role of the productive and reproductive reorganization of the Cochabamba valley, the implementation of new forms of production and its techniques as well as transformations in land ownership and dependency have not yet been thoroughly studied. The project uses interdisciplinary methods (GIS, surveys combined with ethnohistorical research) to elucidate Inca production methods and mobilization as a governmental strategy with its different forms of dependency.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37976.0