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Prestige ceramics in Inca Qollasuyu : Production and distribution of imperial and regional ceramics in the southern Andes

Year: 2019

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Among the hundreds of polities in the pre- European Americas, the Inca realm stood out for its scale and organizational capacities. By AD 1532, the Incas had created the most sophisticated administration of any indigenous American polity. Built on a pyramid of Inca overlords and provincial ethnic elites, Tawantinsuyu (“The Four Parts United”) encompassed 10–12 million closely tabulated inhabitants from hundreds of distinct ethnic groups (Figure 18.1). Together, they occupied a territory that covered about 1,000,000 km2 in Andean South America.

Source: FILO - Digital (University of Buenos Aires)

Authors: Verónica Isabel Williams, Terrence N. D'Altroy, Héctor Neff, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3158862645

FWCI: 2.355

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