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www.escholarship.org/uc/item/50k7d493 THEN DIG Peer-reviewed archaeology blogging Memories of haunted places: An Andean village after the violence In the small Andean village of Pomatambo, ruined adobe houses stand next to new brick ones. Decay and renewal dot the landscape just as people are struggling to balance painful memories of war and loss with new optimism for community unity. Landscape and place activate certain memories of the past and aspirations for the future in Pomatambo. Pomatambo, a village of about two hundred people, is nestled high in the Andes in the province of Vilcashuaman. The Vilcashuaman area was at the epicenter of a civil war in the 1980s and 1990s. During the violence, over a third of the villagers abandoned Pomatambo. Every family in Pomatambo lost at least a member during these years, and abandoned houses and memorials mark where people lost their lives. http://arf.berkeley.edu/then­dig/2011/06/memories­of­haunted­places­an­andean­village­after­the­viol...

Inka imperial policies reorganized the social and labor landscapes of their subjects on a grand scale and unprecedented degree in the Americas. The two most numerous categories of resettled laborers created by these imperial policies were the mitmaqkuna and yanakuna, who together represented at least a third of the total subject population. The Inkas resettled them, often far from their homelands. They were responsible for the daily provisioning of Inka settlements and keeping the peace among conquered populations. Despite their central role in Inka state consolidation and economy, we know little about these populations outside of ethnohistorical interpretations of their privileged status relative to normal tribute-paying communities. Because ethnohistoric documents were written with Inka and Spanish state interests in mind, archaeological evidence is crucial to evaluate their lived experiences. We compare the ethnohistoric and archaeological evidence of the lives of the mitmaqkuna ...

Link for free download in the next 50 days: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WQMQ,rVDBK0So Perhaps the most ambitious social policy carried out by the Incas, the mitmaq program resettled one third to one quarter of subject populations for the purposes of control and producing for the state. Ethnohistoric sources suggest that the relocated people, called mitmaqkuna, were given access to fertile lands and enjoyed elevated social status and freedoms bestowed to them by the Incas. Until now, these claims have not been tested with archaeological evidence. This paper evaluates the ethnohistoric claims through the geochemical analysis of 84 obsidian artifacts from a probable mitmaqkuna agricultural labor colony called Yanawilka, located in Vilcashuamán province, Peru. There is evidence that access to obsidian was restricted for the inhabitants of Yanawilka. The obsidian was mostly from the Quispisissa source, but the relative scarcity, small flake size, and evidence for conservation of raw material suggests that access to this high-quality source was limited and not due to direct procurement.

The Inca mitmaq policy ambitiously resettled up to one-third of its subject population. Despite the importance of this mass relocation, we know little of the mitmaqkuna, the people resettled under the policy. Through a spatial analysis of Yanawilka, an agricultural mitmaq settlement near the Inca provincial capital of Vilcashuamán, this article explores how Inca imperial control differentially affected various aspects of the mitmaqkuna's social landscapes. The use of space syntax analysis to assess the centrality of the Inca imperial presence within such settlements may be of value for assessing other imperial contexts around the world.

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Perhaps the most ambitious social policy carried out by the Incas, the mitmaq program resettled one third to one quarter of subject populations for the purposes of control and producing for the state. Ethnohistoric sources suggest that the relocated people, called mitmaqkuna, were given access to fertile lands and enjoyed elevated social status and freedoms bestowed to them by the Incas. Until now, these claims have not been tested with archaeological evidence. This paper evaluates the ethnohistoric claims through the geochemical analysis of 84 obsidian artifacts from a probable mitmaqkuna agricultural labor colony called Yanawilka, located in Vilcashuamán province, Peru. There is evidence that access to obsidian was restricted for the inhabitants of Yanawilka. The obsidian was mostly from the Quispisissa source, but the relative scarcity, small flake size, and evidence for conservation of raw material suggests that access to this high-quality source was limited and not due to direct procurement.

Recently, interest in the archaeology of ethnogenesis has surged. This renewed interest stems from innovations in the historical study of ethnogenesis, theoretical shifts favoring multidirectional agency, and relevant contemporary sociopolitical debates. Theoretical problems surrounding the appropriateness of the social science concept of “ethnicity,” however, have made the comparative study of ethnogenesis difficult. Drawing from past and emergent perspectives adds renewed vigor to comparative studies of ethnogenesis. A methodology that integrates the different types of theory can resolve the theoretical tensions in the archaeological study of ethnogenesis.

This paper will focus on how Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been applied in Landscape Archaeology from the late 1980s to the present. GIS, a tool for organising and analysing spatial information, has exploded in popularity, but we still lack a systematic overview of how it has contributed to archaeological theory, specifically Landscape Archaeology. This paper will examine whether and how GIS has advanced archaeological theory through a historical review of its application in archaeology.