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Regional Archaeology in the Inca Heartland: The Hanan Cuzco Surveys
Edited by R. Alan CoveyThe Cuzco region of highland Peru was the heartland of the Inca empire, the largest native state to develop in the Americas. Archaeologists have studied Inca monumental architecture for more than a century, but it is only in recent decades that regional survey work has systematically sought to reconstruct patterns of settlement, subsistence, and social organization in the region. This monograph presents the results of regional surveys conducted (from 2000 to 2008) to the north and west of the city of Cuzco, a region of approximately 1200 square kilometers that was investigated using the same field methodology as other systematic surveys in the Cuzco region. The study region, referred to as Hanan Cuzco in this volume, encompasses considerable environmental variations, ranging from warm valley-bottom lands to snow-capped mountains. The chapters in this volume present settlement pattern data from all periods of pre-Columbian occupation—from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers to the transformation of valley-bottom fields by the last Inca emperors. A chapter on the colonial period discusses how Spanish colonial practices transformed an imperial landscape into a peripheral one. Together, the chapters in this volume contribute to the archaeological understanding of several central issues in Andean prehistory.
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Tables
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Foreword, by Joyce Marcus
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Acknowledgments, by R. Alan Covey
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Introduction, by R. Alan Covey
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Part I. Regions and Research
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1. Research Projects and Field and Laboratory Methods by R. Alan Covey, Véronique Bélisle, and Allison R. Davis
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2. Environment and Ecology in the Hanan Cuzco Region by R. Alan Covey and Maeve Skidmore
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Part II. Transitions toward Sedentism and Agriculture
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3. The Preceramic Occupation of the Hanan Cuzco Region by R. Alan Covey and Nicholas Griffis
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4. Formative Period Settlement Patterns in the Xaquixaguana Region Allison R. Davis
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5. Formative Period Settlement Patterns in the Sacred Valley by R. Alan Covey
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Part III. Local Societies and the Effects of Wari Colonization
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6. Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon Settlement Patterns in the Xaquixaguana Region by Véronique Bélisle
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7. Local Developments in the Sacred Valley and Responses to Wari Colonization by R. Alan Covey
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Part IV. The Advent of the Inca State
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8. Late Intermediate Period Archaeology and Inca Rivals on the Xaquixaguana Plain by R. Alan Covey
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9. Late Intermediate Period Settlement Patterns in the Sacred Valley and the Measure of Early Inca State Power by R. Alan Covey
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Part V. Imperial Transformations
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10. Local Populations, Royal Lineages, and State Entities in the Inca Occupation of the Xaquixaguana Plain by R. Alan Covey
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11. Inca Imperial Settlement Patterns in the Sacred Valley by R. Alan Covey
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12. Reconstructing Colonial Migration and Resettlement in the Cuzco Region by Kylie E. Quave
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