ANTHRO 114R Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Platform Mound, Camay, Chancay Culture
Document Summary
Lake titicaca basin: the aymara kingdoms (senorios): pacejas, omasuyus, lupaqa, Located in the tiwanaku area: disappearance of the tiwanaku style, economic transition to pastoralism in response to the drought, depopulation; ppl are moving inland, pukaras = fortresses; become more ubiquitous. Lupaqa: chuquito and cutimbo, also have pukaras, chullpas used for communal burial; tradition spreads after the collapse of tiwanaku. Pic of cutimbo are chullpas: cave burials, cranial modification, vertical archipelago(john murra); colonies in coastal valleys. Colla: northern part of the titicaca region, uma and urco colla groups, sillustani: principal site of funerary monuments, has every kind/form of chullpa there is (pic is a burial site) It was originally occupied by the killke culture: the inkas came and took over. The cuzco basin was an area of chiefly development. Implores the use of face neck jars (overlap with wari) Was an important site for the inca b/c it was great for farming; very fertile.
