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This book describes and explains its extraordinary progress from a remote Andean settlement near Lake Titicaca to its rapid demise six centuries later at the.!
Terence N. D'Altroy
From Autonomous to Imperial Rule
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, 2002
This volume examines change and continuity in the domestic economy of the Xauxa society of Peru's...
more This volume examines change and continuity in the domestic economy of the Xauxa society of Peru's Upper Mantaro Valley, from a condition ofself-rule to incorporation into the Inka empire.
Discusses the culture, religion, government, and ideals of the Incan society that thrived in South America until the Spanish Conquest in Saved in.
In this final chapter, I would like to reflect on the authors' studies, while placing Xauxa society back into the larger context of the Inka empire. The discussion reconsiders the questions laid out in the introduction: to assess how circumstances in one valley can help us probe the nature of imperial-provincial relations, and at the same time return to the project's conception-to contribute to our understanding of household economies in premodern complex societies.
The last couple of centuries before the Spanish invasion of 1532 were an era of striking change in the