Five hundred years before the Inca, the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600-1000) was a time of sweeping cultural change in the Andes. Archaeologists have long associated this period …
Aymara Indians are indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near the Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. Amy Eisenberg bases Aymara Indian …
Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establish the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries. Recent popular discourse on nationalism and ethnicity assumes …