Full Description
Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru,The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco, Peru analyzes the political and social transformations that led to the downfall of the Wari civilization in the Andean Middle Horizon period (AD 500-1000) and resulted in the rise of the Inca state. The contributors to this collection present evidence of the Wari civilization's robust, imperialistic occupation of Cuzco, and argue that this presence laid the groundwork for later regional polities that can be traced to the Late Horizon Inca period (AD 1476-1532). This collection fills a gap in scholarly literature on Cuzco prehistory, the provincial southern highlands of the Wari civilization, and early imperialism in the Andes.
Contents
Chapter 1 Pikillacta, Huaro and the Wari Presence in Cuzco
Chapter 2 The Wari Elite, What We Know from Cuzco
Chapter3 Evidence of Wari Warfare in the Cuzco Region
Chapter 4 Wari Decline, Cotocotuyoc, and the Beginning of the Late Intermediate Period
Chapter 5 The Bioarchaeology of Wari Collapse in Cuzco, Peru: A Study of Health and Trauma from the Middle Horizon-Late Intermediate Period Transition at Cotocotuyoc
Chapter 6: Reassessing the Post-Wari Pottery Sequence in Cuzco, Peru
Chapter 7 The Identity of the Archaeological Cultures using the Lucre Style and Their Relationship to the Inca
Chapter 8 Choquepuquio Construction Technology: The Wari Legacy
