Rural Cuzco before and after Inka Imperial Conquest: Foodways, Status, and Identity (Maras, Peru)

Quave, Kylie; Kennedy, Sarah; Covey, R. Alan

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“…Roasted meats were part of the "haute cuisine" of the Inka, and one would assume that the more roasted meats in relation to stewed meats consumed, the more cultural affinity toward the Inka there is (Jennings and Duke, 2018;Quave et al, 2019). Nevertheless, our analysis shows the importance of taking into account overall meat consumption.…”

Section: Foodstuffsmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…The emphasis in this study is on overall QOL, but we will first explain the internal distinctions in prosperity at each site, via household wealth. Some material correlates of wealth commonly used in archaeological studies, such as the size of the domestic structure and species diversity of foodways, did not correspond with clear wealth differences at Cheqoq and Yanawilka (Hu, 2016;Quave, 2012;Quave et al, 2019). Intrasite differences in construction investment was not pronounced at both sites.…”

Section: Intrasite Household Wealth Patternsmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Charred bones are a good proxy for roasted meats (Hastorf, 2017;Jennings and Duke, 2018;Sandefur, 2001;Quave et al, 2019). Roasting was more fuel intensive than stewing or boiling and was thus reserved for special feasts (Sandefur, 2001: 194).…”

Section: Foodstuffsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Prosperity and prestige: Archaeological realities of unfree laborers under Inka imperialism

Quave

2020

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Inka imperial policies reorganized the social and labor landscapes of their subjects on a grand scale and unprecedented degree in the Americas. The two most numerous categories of resettled laborers created by these imperial policies were the mitmaqkuna and yanakuna, who together represented at least a third of the total subject population. The Inkas resettled them, often far from their homelands. They were responsible for the daily provisioning of Inka settlements and keeping the peace among conquered populations. Despite their central role in Inka state consolidation and economy, we know little about these populations outside of ethnohistorical interpretations of their privileged status relative to normal tribute-paying communities. Because ethnohistoric documents were written with Inka and Spanish state interests in mind, archaeological evidence is crucial to evaluate their lived experiences. We compare the ethnohistoric and archaeological evidence of the lives of the mitmaqkuna and yanakuna in two regions: the mitmaqkuna site of Yanawilka in the Vilcas Huamán province and the yanakuna site of Cheqoq in the rural Inka heartland of Cuzco. Archaeological comparisons yield evidence contradicting the long-held assumption that prestige is synonymous with autonomy, power, or even wealth in imperial contexts.

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Section: Foodstuffsmentioning

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Section: Intrasite Household Wealth Patternsmentioning

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Prosperity and prestige: Archaeological realities of unfree laborers under Inka imperialism

Quave

2020

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…Especially relevant to this discussion, Covey explores the question of state emergence in relation to a scalar threshold-specifically, indices of political control beyond a one day round trip (pedestrian) travel and finds strong settlement pattern evidence for it between 1200 and 1300 CE [30] . It is around this time that a wholesale transformation of the regional landscape occurred with the establishment of royal estates in the traditional lands of former rival polities in the Vilcanota Valley, the proliferation of centrally-planned settlements with Inka temples and administrative architecture, and widespread agricultural intensification in the region [26,30,[33][34][35][36][37] . Notably, indices for major innovations in information systems-for example, the development of a judicial system, the state calendrical system, decimal administration, and inter-regional road systems-appear to emerge only with the reign of Pachakutiq Inka Yupanki, who was the architect of the first major expansionist campaigns of the mid-15th century CE, which quickly engulfed the Lake Titicaca Basin and altiplano to the south, as well as the entirety of the central and northern highlands to central Ecuador and north coastal regions, including the Chimu empire [17,23,30] .…”

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Explosive Expansion, Sociotechnical Diversity, and Fragile Sovereignty in the Domain of the Inka

Wernke

2022

J. Soc. Comput.

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Societies of the late prehispanic Andes-the Inkas principal among them-have long figured as "exceptions to the rule" in social evolutionary schemata, in large measure because they seemingly lacked key technological hallmarks of complex societies found in other world regions, despite their observed large scale and complex, hierarchical political and economic formations. Such presumed absences are encoded in the Seshat Global History Databank, a large global comparative diachronic database recording many dimensions of human societies. Analyses derived from the current version of the Seshat database necessarily reproduce these supposed absences, as they inhere in its data ontology, structure, and registry. Nonetheless, patterns observed in the dataset provide a means for identifying processes acting on and through Andean peoples and the complex political formations they elaborated. Specifically, this paper evaluates a proposed information processing threshold model of social evolution, which suggests that social dynamics are driven first by processes related to social scale, and then by a phase of dynamics in which further scalar increases are only possible through innovations in information processing. The Andean region appears to violate this model because the Seshat database records writing and other information processing technologies as absent in the case of the Inka empire. The author argues that the dynamics of the Andean region are actually consistent with the information threshold model, but the data as constituted do not capture the relevant variables. The Inkas elaborated sophisticated information processing on par with counterparts in other world regions, but through radically distinct forms and pathways, including the Andean khipu (knotted string registries), decimal administration, and a colossal logistical and administrative infrastructural apparatus. This interwoven bundle of technologies and institutions constituted an information revolution that surpassed the information threshold and enabled explosive Inka imperial expansion, even as it produced certain vulnerabilities and fragile sovereignty.

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“…Although it is likely that most people throughout the Inka realm were familiar with camelid meat, the ordinary was made exceptional through the use of earthen ovens that probably added a different flavor, thus making the occasion memorable. Moreover, instead of cooking food in several ceramic vessels, the most efficient way of preparing food for large crowds was in the pachamanka style: its use in Inka times has been suggested by other researchers after finding some partially burned bones (Costin and Earle 1989;Quave et al 2019;Sanderfur 2001). The presence of earthen ovens at Tambo Viejo confirms these suggestions, demonstrating that, as in more recent times, pachamanka was the special-occasion food for the Inka.…”

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Pachamanka: Inka Earthen Ovens from Tambo Viejo, Peru

Valdez

Bettcher

2021

Latin Am. antiq.

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Early Spaniards reported that the Inka state organized public celebrations involving extravagant banquets and drinking, in addition to singing and dancing. Cieza de León and Cobo noted that large number of llamas were slaughtered for such special celebrations. Although it is understood that food was an integral part of the festivities and that the Inka state used food as a political tool, until recently the meal preparation details for such large gatherings remained unknown. Recent archaeological excavation at Tambo Viejo revealed the presence of earthen ovens, similar in fashion to contemporary pachamanka, that were used for cooking at Inka state public celebrations.

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Rural Cuzco before and after Inka Imperial Conquest: Foodways, Status, and Identity (Maras, Peru)

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Prosperity and prestige: Archaeological realities of unfree laborers under Inka imperialism

Prosperity and prestige: Archaeological realities of unfree laborers under Inka imperialism

Explosive Expansion, Sociotechnical Diversity, and Fragile Sovereignty in the Domain of the Inka

Pachamanka: Inka Earthen Ovens from Tambo Viejo, Peru

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