When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...
Little documentation exists of the trade occurring in the central North Carolina Piedmont during the 18th and 19th century at wealthy farmstead sites or at surrounding sites of lower economic status. The intent of my research is to gain a greater ...
The ethnohistoric and archaeological record provides ample evidence of the ideological significance of metals and pigments in the pre-Columbian Andean world. This study explores the use of these materials in the complex decorative techniques utili...