The Wari civilization and their descendants : imperial transformations in Pre-Inca Cuzco / edited by Mary Glowacki and Gordon F. McEwan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glowacki, Mary, editor.

McEwan, Gordon Francis, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America.

History.

Huari Indians--Antiquities.

Huari Indians.

Politics and government.

Pikillacta Site (Peru).

Cusco (Peru : Region)--Antiquities.

Cusco (Peru : Region).

Peru--Cusco (Region).

Peru--Cuzco.

Peru--Pikillacta Site.

Huari Indians--Politics and government.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Peru--Cusco (Region).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Indians of South America--Peru--Cuzco--History.

Huari pottery--Peru--Cusco (Region).

Huari pottery.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 155 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Imperial transformations in Pre-Inca Cuzco

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]

Summary:

"Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformations in Pre-Inca Cuzco 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."-- Provided by publisher.

"Drawing on research conducted in Cuzco, Peru, The Wari Civilization and Their Descendants: Imperial Transformation in Pre-Inca Cuzco 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Wari Imperialism: What Cuzco Can Tell Us / Mary Glowacki

Pikillacta, Huaro and the Wari Presence in Cuzco / Mary Glowacki and Gordon McEwan

The Wari Elite, What We Know from Cuzco / Mary Glowacki and Nicholasa Arredondo Dueñas

Evidence of Wari Warfare in the Cuzco Region / Louis D. Tesar and Carlos A. Arriola Tuni

Wari Decline, Cotocotuyoc, and the Beginning of the Late Intermediate Period / Mary Glowacki

The Bioarchaeology of Wari Collapse in Cuzco, Peru: A Study of Health and Trauma from the Middle Horizon-Late Intermediate Period Transition at Cotocotuyoc / Valerie A. Andrushko and Viviana Sanchez-Chopitea

Reassessing the Post-Wari Pottery Sequence in Cuzco, Peru / Melissa Chatfield

The Identity of the Archaeological Cultures using the Lucre Style and Their Relationship to the Inca / Gordon McEwan

Choquepuquio Construction Technology: The Wari Legacy / Arminda Margarita Gibaja Oviedo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: The Wari civilization and their descendants

ISBN:

9781498589628

1498589626

OCLC:

1114557614

Publisher Number:

99983925663