Saturday, June 22, 2013

"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent." (Paul Simon) (Entry 19, Day 8)

Inca Museum (6/1)

  • Andean hunter-gatherers - 16,000 years
  • carvings - 1500 BC
  • 100 BC - pre-Inca - navigated Pacific - Modica culture
  • lots of representative pottery
  • clay pottery + buildings
  • Chankay - 800 AD
  • Manto Paracas - 900 BC
  • Chimu - 1100 AD
  • Conquered by Incas - ~ 1460
  • 400 BC - Pukara - near Titicaca
  • Tia wanako - 500 AD - Titicaca
  • Bred camelids
  • Expanded to Chile, Argentina, BOlivia
  • Succeeded by Wari
  • Qollado - 850 AD - Puno
dying (like of fabric):
- bichio (bug) + vinegar = dark purple
- bichio + ammonia = rose
- bichio + achimete = red
- bichio + lemon/ citric acid = orange
- fermented Anil = indigo
- flor (flower) = yellow
- hoja (leaf) = green
- black walnut (fruit + leaves) = brown
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Andes - more than 100 cultivated plants
Puna - highlands of the highlands
   - 13000 - 15700 feet above sea
   - dehydrated crops
   - livestock - important
5000 BC - llama + alpaca herders, grain farmers (corn, quinua (pronounced KEEN-wa), quañia (no idea how to pronounce that), tarwi), tuberous (potatoes, oqa, lisas, mashwa, hizaños)
Tureneni - archaeological site - pre-ceramic period (5000 BC).  Cave paintings!
Markavalle - first settlement in Cuzco reigon. 1000 BC.
   - family basis of social organization
Killkil - 800 AD - Cuzco
Chanapata - 800 BC - Cuzco

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CUZCO AREA PEOPLE/ GROUPS

PRECERAMIC (5000 BC - 1500 BC)
Chumbivilcas
Yauri
Virginniyoq
Torreni
Manto
Chanchis
Chawaytiri
Qorqa
Wayllabambas

FORMATIVE
Markavalle - 1000 BC
Chanapata - 800 BC

STATES AND (desarrollos) REGIONAL
Qotakalli - 600 AD
*Wari Invasion 750 AD*
Killki - 800 AD
Lucre - 1100 AD

INCA STATE
Classical period - 1200 AD
expansion - 1400 AD (the time that everyone hears about)
Colonial - 1536 AD (when the Spanish came)

Mythological origins - Manco Capac + Mama Occlo, children of the sun, sent to establish kingdoms because sun pitied humans
   - "Qechua" = "Place of Origin"
Llamas expanded the empire!
Historical origin - invasion of the Chanka nation to NW Cuzco
   - Inka Yupanqui Pacakuti - first historic Inca.  Fought Chankas out of Cuzco?
Machu Picchu - aka Piqcho, built as a royal palace for Inca Yupanqui - Pachacuti - during his reign (1438-71)
Diego Rodriquiez de Figueroa - first foreigner to pass through - 6 May 1565
Incas of 16-1700s - anticolonial art

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