The Inka Road and Mobility of a Fisher Community in the Cañete Valley, Peru

Summary

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

The Inka Road system was a critical infrastructure for expanding and consolidating the Inka empire in the Andes. From the traditional view, the existence of the Inka Road across diverse regions was seen as an indicator of how the Inkas integrated and controlled the mobility of subject communities. Other recent perspectives have emphasized the mobility of local populations by using the Inka Road without explicit imperial control. In this presentation, we will identify the Inka Road associated with the Cerro Azul site through aerial photographs, historical maps and documentation, and field visits. The Cerro Azul site is a settlement occupied by a maritime community in the Cañete Valley, South Coast, Peru. The characteristics and route of this segment of the Inka Road at Cerro Azul enable us to discuss the mobility patterns at differentiated scales of the coastal route during the Inka empire.

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): 40269.0