Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca

by Brian S. Bauer

Book Overview

The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas--the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance in the cultural development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently received the same kind of systematic archaeological survey long since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292702795
• ISBN13: 9780292702790
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.8"