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Pikillacta : the Wari Empire in Cuzco / edited by Gordon F. McEwan.

The origin of the first Andean imperial state has been the subject of lively debate for decades. Archaeological sites dating to the Peruvian Middle Horizon time period, a.d. 540 to 900, appear to give evidence for the emergence of an expansive empire that set the stage for the development of the lat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: McEwan, Gordon Francis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Pikillacta Site (Peru)
Huari Indians > Politics and government.
Huari architecture > Peru > Cusco (Region)
Huari pottery > Peru > Cusco (Region)
Excavations (Archaeology) > Peru > Cusco (Region)
Cusco (Peru : Region) > Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Huari architecture.
Huari pottery.
Peru > Cusco (Region)
Peru > Pikillacta Site.
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Pikillacta and the Wari Empire / Gordon F. McEwan
  • Exploration and excavation at Pikillacta
  • 2: Pikillacta and its architectural typology / Gordon F. McEwan and Nicole Couture
  • 3: Excavations at Pikillacta / Gordon F. McEwan
  • 4: Pikillacta architecture and construction requirements / Gordon F. McEwan
  • 5: Wari hydraulic works in the Lucre basin / Alfredo Valencia Zegarra
  • Data analysis
  • 6: Pottery from Pikillacta / Mary Glowacki
  • 7: Dating Pikillacta / Mary Glowacki
  • 8: Human skeletal remains from Pikillacta / John W. Verano
  • 9: Arsenic bronze at Pikillacta / Heather Lechtman
  • 10: The functions of Pikillacta / Gordon F. McEwan.

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