Title: The Incas: New Perspectives (Understanding Ancient Civilizations) [Hardcover] Gordon F. McEwan and John Weeks
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1851095748
ISBN 13: 9781851095742
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 28 ounces

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Defying many of the supposed rules of civilization building, and lacking the advantages of a written language, hard metals, the wheel, or draft animals, the Incas forged one of the greatest imperial states in history.

The Incas: New Perspectives offers a revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from the earliest stages of its development to its final capitulation to Pizzarro in the mid-16th century.

In recent years researchers have employed new tools to get to the heart of the mysterious Inca culture. Drawing on recent work in archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, and other sources, The Incas provides the most up-to-date interpretations of Inca culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life available. Readers will discover how the Incas discovered medicines still in use and kept records using knotted cords; how Inca builders created masterful highways and stone bridges; and how the inhabitants of seemingly unfarmable lands came to give the world potatoes, beans, corn, squashes, tomatoes, avocados, peanuts, and peppers.

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Gordon F. McEwan, PhD, is associate professor of anthropology at Wagner College, Staten Island, NY.

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