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Informationen zum Autor Brian S. Bauer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author or coauthor of four previous books on the Inca. Klappentext 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 the Inca and the Cuzco Valley for years to come. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction to the Inca The Cuzco Valley at the Time of the Inca Empire: A Brief OverviewThe Cuzco Valley and Its Natural ResourcesOverview of Cuzco Archaeological ResearchThe Cuzco Valley Archaeological ProjectThe Cuzco ChronologyChapter 2. The Inca Heartland The Social Hierarchy of the Cuzco RegionSummary and DiscussionChapter 3. Human Impact and Environmental History of the Cuzco Region (Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Brian S. Bauer, and Michael Frogley) Ice CoresLake-Sediment CoresThe Cuzco Environment and Human Impact: 10,000-2000 BCThe Cuzco Environment and Human Impact: 2000 BC-AD 100The Cuzco Environment and Human Impact: AD 100-1100The Cuzco Environment and Human Impact: AD 1100-1490The Cuzco Environment and Human Impact during the Little Ice Age: AD 1490-1880Summary and DiscussionChapter 4. The Archaic Period and the First People of the Cuzco Valley (9500-2200 BC) (Brian Bauer, Bradford Jones, and Cindy Klink) The Cuzco Archaic PeriodSummary and DiscussionChapter 5. The Formative Period and the Emergence of Ranked Societies (2200 BC-AD 200) The Early Formative Phase (2200-1500 BC) and the Beginnings of Ceramic ProductionThe Middle Formative Phase and the Establishment of Autochthonous Village Leadership (ca. 1500-500 BC)The Late Formative Phase and the Development of a Valley-wide Chiefdom (500 BC-AD 200)The Late Formative Phase in the Cuzco ValleySummary and DiscussionChapter 6. The Qotakalli Period: Time of Regional Development (AD 200-600) Previous Research on the Qotakalli PeriodAltiplano Influence in the Cuzco Region during the Qotakalli PeriodThe Cuzco Valley during the Qotakalli PeriodThe Distribution of Qotakalli Ceramics beyond the Cuzco ValleySummary and DiscussionChapter 7. The Wari Period (AD 600-1000) in the Cuzco Region Indicators of Wari InfluenceThe Development and Expansion of the Wari EmpireThe Site of PikillactaThe Wari in the Cuzco RegionDating the Period of Wari Influence in the Cuzco RegionSummary and DiscussionChapter 8. The Development of the Inca State (AD 1000-1400) (Brian S. Bauer and R. Alan Covey) Previous Research on the Development of the Inca HeartlandArchaeological Surveys in the Inca HeartlandCeramic Styles of the Killke PeriodOther Killke-Related Styles in the Cuzco RegionState Formation in the Cuzco BasinThe Region South of the Cuzco ValleyThe Region West and Northwest of...
