Abstract
Study of the origin and development of the Inca state has been hindered by the fact that comparatively little archaeological investigation of Inca antecedents has been carried out in the Inca heartland, the Valley of Cuzco. In recent years, most scholarship has been devoted to developing the broad outlines of Peruvian prehistory in pan-Andean terms. While an overarching view of the cyclical development and decline of complex society in the Andes has provided a general framework for viewing the growth of social complexity, more specific information in needed on local sequences of events. Among the most pressing areas of investigation that can benefit from a local view is the cultural trajectory that ultimately culminated in the empire of the Inca. Recent excavations at Chokepukio, in the Lucre Basin of the Valley of Cuzco, have recovered a continuous strati-graphic sequence that begins with the Early Intermediate Period and continues through the Late Horizon. The site of Chokepukio is providing the data necessary for analyzing the origin of the Inca state and for investigating what influence the Middle Horizon Huari Empire may have had on the development of the later Inca Empire.
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McEwan, G.F., Chatfield, M., Gibaja, A. (2002). The Archaeology of Inca Origins. In: Isbell, W.H., Silverman, H. (eds) Andean Archaeology I. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0639-3_10
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