The Royal Road of the Inca
Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Inca roads
ISBN :
Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Inca roads
ISBN :
Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Inca Highway Expedition
ISBN : 9783858450067
Author : Karin Muller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 9780792277279
Muller shares her seven-month adventure along the treacherous, starkly beautiful expanse of this ancient route. Along the way, she tries her hand at bull-fighting, paddles a reed boat, and accompanies the Ecuadorian military on a de-mining patrol. Photos.
Author : Ramiro Matos Mendieta
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1588344959
This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced engineering and construction skills of the Inca people. The Qhapaq nan also spurred an important process of ecological and community integration across the Andean region. This book, the companion volume to a National Museum of the American Indian exhibition of the same name, features essays on six main themes: the ancestors of the Inca, Cusco as the center of the empire, road engineering, road transportation and integration, the road in the Colonial era, and the road today. Beautifully designed and featuring more than 225 full-color illustrations, The Great Inka Road is a fascinating look at this enduring symbol of the Andean peoples' strength and adaptability.
Author : John Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781906998127
In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. For five months John Harrison journeys through this secret country, walking alone into remote villages where he is the first gringo the inhabitants have ever seen, and where life continues as if Columbus had never sailed.
Author : Pedro de Cieza de León
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1960
Category : America
ISBN :
Presents the unabridged version of Incas' chronicles by Pedro de Cieza de Leon. Details in comprehensive custom, tradition, and history of the Incas the writer experienced directly.
Author : Terence N. D'Altroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444331159
The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs
Author : Stephen G. Perz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2023-05
Category :
ISBN : 1496225872
Through more than five hundred years of the history of Peru's Interoceanic Highway, this book shows how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change between historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate.
Author : Burr Cartwright Brundage
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806119243
Examines the major factors responsible for the cultural achievements of the Inca Empire
Author : Brian S. Bauer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292792042
The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a system of 328 huacas (shrines) arranged along 42 ceques (lines) radiated out toward the mountains surrounding the city. This elaborate network, maintained by ayllus (kin groups) that made offerings to the shrines in their area, organized the city both temporally and spiritually. From 1990 to 1995, Brian Bauer directed a major project to document the ceque system of Cusco. In this book, he synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system. Moving well beyond previous interpretations, Bauer constructs a convincing model of the system's physical form and its relation to the social, political, and territorial organization of Cusco.