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A lock of hair could rewrite assumptions about the Inca Empire

The Inca Empire in South America was one of the most powerful pre-Columbian societies. It was known for the architecture of Machu Picchu, an extensive road network and a system of terraces for ...
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The Inca world : ancient people and places ; art, architecture, religion, everyday life, culture ; the native civilizations of the Andes and South America explored in 500 ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Contents Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th ...
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The Inca Khipu - Cracking the Code of the World’s Oldest 3D Language

The Inca Empire managed vast territories without a written alphabet, relying instead on a mysterious system of knotted ...
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Structure, knowledge and representation in the Andes : studies presented to Reiner Tom Zuidema on the occasion of his 70th birthday / Gary Urton, guest editor ; Rossana de la ...

The intellectual history of Dutch structuralism in the Andes. R. Tom Zuidema, Dutch structuralism, and the application of "the Leiden orientation" to Andean Studies / Gary Urton -- Organizational and ...