Rural Cuzco before and after Inka Imperial Conquest: Foodways, Status, and Identity (Maras, Peru)

State expansion brings cultural change or persistence, and foodways reveal how status and identity result from these events. We examine diet choices and food service at two large villages in the Inka imperial heartland (Cuzco, Peru). Yunkaray was occupied during the time of early Inka expansion (ele...

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Published in:International journal of historical archaeology 2019-12, Vol.23 (4), p.868-892
Main Authors: Quave, Kylie E., Kennedy, Sarah A., Covey, R. Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Archaeology
Social Sciences
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Summary:State expansion brings cultural change or persistence, and foodways reveal how status and identity result from these events. We examine diet choices and food service at two large villages in the Inka imperial heartland (Cuzco, Peru). Yunkaray was occupied during the time of early Inka expansion (eleventh to fifteenth centuries), whereas Cheqoq housed a late imperial (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries) multiethnic retainer population serving the Inka nobility. We use faunal remains and ceramic assemblages to reveal the uneven process of "Inkanization" and find that migrated retainer laborers had greater affinities with Inka practices than early Inka marriage partners.
ISSN:1092-7697
1573-7748
DOI:10.1007/s10761-018-0483-0