"This book is a major, up-to-date synthesis of a large mass of
empirical archaeological information, much of it collected during
the past ten-to-fifteen years by Bauer and his associates. It also
presents a full synthesis of historic and ethnohistoric sources
bearing upon Cuzco and its inhabitants, including many previously
unpublished photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries that add greatly to the book's overall importance and
appeal." -- Jeffrey R. Parsons, Professor of Anthropology and
Curator of Latin American Archaeology, University of Michigan
The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political
center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas-- the Inca
Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight
million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia
to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance in the cultural
development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently
received the same kind of systematic archaeological survey long
since conducted at other New World centers of civilization.
Drawing on the results of the Cuzco Valley Archaeological
Project that Brian Bauer directed from 1994 to 2000, this landmark
book undertakes the first general overview of the prehistory of the
Cuzco region from the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers (ca.
7000 B.C.) to the fall of the Inca Empire in A.D. 1532. Combining
archaeological survey and excavation data with historical records,
the book addresses both the specific patterns of settlement in the
Cuzco Valley and the larger processes of cultural development. With
its wealth of new information, this book will become the baseline
for research on theInca and the Cuzco Valley for years to come.
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