The Wari civilization and their descendants : imperial transformations in pre-Inca Cuzco /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Glowacki, Mary (Editor), McEwan, Gordon Francis (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
Subjects:	Huari Indians > Politics and government. Huari Indians > Antiquities. Pikillacta Site (Peru) Excavations (Archaeology) > Peru > Cusco (Region) Indians of South America > Peru > Cuzco > History. Huari pottery > Peru > Cusco (Region) Cusco (Peru : Region) > Antiquities.

Table of 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.