Abstract
This article serves to evaluate the Late Intermediate Period (LIP) and early Late Horizon Period (LH) ceramic traditions of Ayacucho, Apurimac, and Huancavelica, and provides an updated review of the pottery styles known across this area. It also provides a view of the implications of these data regarding the social, religious, and political structure of the polities active across this area. The article reviews the available ceramic data for the LIP Chanka tradition in Peru (AD 1000–1470) and develops a model for the development and interactions of the local ceramic styles from Ayacucho, Apurimac, and Huancavelica, and their temporal sequence. The Chancas and their allies were claimed by the Incas to have been instrumental in triggering the expansion of the Inca empire. The implications of the results of the research for current ethnohistoric models of the interactions between the Chanca polity and the Inca state have been examined and are presented.
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