The more we learn about these cultures, the more we appreciate what was special about each of...
Inca
This was a ritual device intended to promote agricultural fertility. Introduction Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, in...
They are remembered for their contributions to religion, architecture, and their famous network of roads through the...
Some indigenous peoples of the Americas supported agriculturally advanced societies for thousands of years. Introduction The indigenous...
The main legacy of the civilization was its power to inspire, including that of later resistance groups...
The site features architecture, from houses to terraces, built by carefully fitting individual stones against each other....
Tiwanaku was founded some time in the Early Intermediate Period (200 BCE – 600 CE). By Mark...
Lake Titicaca was long considered the origin and centre of the cosmos by the local populace and...
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction For the Incas finely worked and highly decorative textiles came to symbolize both...
Incan mummies (mallki) which escaped looters have, in most cases, been excellently preserved. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
The All-T’oqapu Tunic is an example of the height of Andean textile fabrication and its centrality to...
Yma Sumac’s career embodied many of the contradictions that emerge when the international desire to consume exoticism...