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The Great Inka Road : engineering an empire / Great Inca road, engineering an empire Ramiro Matos Mendieta & Jose Barreiro, editors. - First edition. - Washington, DC National Museum of the American Indian 2015 - xv, 210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
"Accompanying a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian"--Dust jacket front flap. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / by G. Wayne Clough -- Foreword / by Kevin Gover -- Introduction : Strong in our hearts : the legacy of the Inka Road / Jose Barreiro -- The Qhapaq Nan and its landscapes / Victoria Castro -- The Inka road system in the Valley of Cusco / Donato Amado Gonzales -- Inka city planning in Cusco / Ricardo Mar Medina and Jose Alejandro Beltran-Caballero -- Mountains and the sacred landscape of the Inka / Christian Vitry -- The Inka trails near Machu Picchu / Kenneth R. Wright and Ruth M. Wright -- Spanning the Andes : history and technology of Inka suspension bridges / John Ochsendorf -- Qhapaq Nan and the khipu : Inka administration on the road and along the cord / Gary Urton -- Messages from the Qhapaq Nan : the chaskis and their contribution to Andean communication / Sergio Martin -- Llama caravans / Axel E. Nielsen -- The Inka Road to the Chinchaysuyu / Jose Luis Pino Matos -- Ceques, roads, and astronomy in Cusco and the Inka empire / R.T. Zuidema -- Tampus / Mauricio Rodriguez Uribe -- The Inka in Chile / Jose Berenguer -- Qhapaq Nan : Andean road system through the Collasuyu to the end of the Tawantinsuyu / J. Roberto Barcena -- Engineering the Inka Road / Clifford Schexnayder, Christine M. Fiori, and Gerardo Chang Recavarren -- Inka in Tiwanaku / Alexei Vranich -- Salt routes from Uyuni and Atacama / Karina A. Yager -- The Contisuyu road / Edmundo de la Vega Machicao -- Antisuyu / Mario A. Rivera -- The coca route / Samantha Pary Ghayour McKnew -- From Inka Road to royal road : the Inka Road in colonial times / Carmen Arellano -- Qeros and long-distance exchange / Emily Kaplan -- The living road / Ramiro Matos Mendieta.
9781588344953 1588344959
9781588344953
2015005190
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Inca roads
Incas--Civilization
Incas--Antiquities
Qhapaq Nan
909.0498323 Gre 15
The Great Inka Road : engineering an empire / Great Inca road, engineering an empire Ramiro Matos Mendieta & Jose Barreiro, editors. - First edition. - Washington, DC National Museum of the American Indian 2015 - xv, 210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
"Accompanying a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian"--Dust jacket front flap. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / by G. Wayne Clough -- Foreword / by Kevin Gover -- Introduction : Strong in our hearts : the legacy of the Inka Road / Jose Barreiro -- The Qhapaq Nan and its landscapes / Victoria Castro -- The Inka road system in the Valley of Cusco / Donato Amado Gonzales -- Inka city planning in Cusco / Ricardo Mar Medina and Jose Alejandro Beltran-Caballero -- Mountains and the sacred landscape of the Inka / Christian Vitry -- The Inka trails near Machu Picchu / Kenneth R. Wright and Ruth M. Wright -- Spanning the Andes : history and technology of Inka suspension bridges / John Ochsendorf -- Qhapaq Nan and the khipu : Inka administration on the road and along the cord / Gary Urton -- Messages from the Qhapaq Nan : the chaskis and their contribution to Andean communication / Sergio Martin -- Llama caravans / Axel E. Nielsen -- The Inka Road to the Chinchaysuyu / Jose Luis Pino Matos -- Ceques, roads, and astronomy in Cusco and the Inka empire / R.T. Zuidema -- Tampus / Mauricio Rodriguez Uribe -- The Inka in Chile / Jose Berenguer -- Qhapaq Nan : Andean road system through the Collasuyu to the end of the Tawantinsuyu / J. Roberto Barcena -- Engineering the Inka Road / Clifford Schexnayder, Christine M. Fiori, and Gerardo Chang Recavarren -- Inka in Tiwanaku / Alexei Vranich -- Salt routes from Uyuni and Atacama / Karina A. Yager -- The Contisuyu road / Edmundo de la Vega Machicao -- Antisuyu / Mario A. Rivera -- The coca route / Samantha Pary Ghayour McKnew -- From Inka Road to royal road : the Inka Road in colonial times / Carmen Arellano -- Qeros and long-distance exchange / Emily Kaplan -- The living road / Ramiro Matos Mendieta.
9781588344953 1588344959
9781588344953
2015005190
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Inca roads
Incas--Civilization
Incas--Antiquities
Qhapaq Nan
909.0498323 Gre 15