The long-distance movement of craft items and ideas about their manufacture contribute to
imperial projects; facilitating the dissemination of ideologies, serving as tribute, and acting …

The prehistory of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has been constructed around certain
traditional classes of objects, such as ceramics and lithics, following the Old World and North …

This article examines the history of the application of archaeological science in studies of
pre‐Hispanic pottery from the Andes, South America, through academic publications from …

Abstract In Central Western Argentina (CWA), the Provincial Inca pottery has been the most
ubiquitous indicator of Inca influence and expansionism during the fifteenth–sixteenth …

A core region is the first place for expected shifts in archaeological materials before, during,
and after political changes like state emergence and imperial consolidation. Yet, studies of …

This paper proposes an archaeometric contribution to the study of the Inca pottery style from
the southeastern frontier of Tawantinsuyu, also known as the Inca Empire, located in Central …

Ychsma was a hierarchical society centered on the Lurín and Rímac valleys of Peru's central
coast during the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1470 CE). During the Late Horizon (1470 …

The distribution and hybridization of ceramic vessels provide insights into how local elites
and imperial officials navigated imperial expansion. This article presents data on ceramic …

NAA is applied to a sample of 360 archaeological ceramics mostly dating to the Late
Horizon (1470–1532 CE) from the major Inka center of Pachacamac and fourteen additional …

Crafting is often assumed to have been a 'dirty'and hence low-status activity: elites managed
the supply of materials or distribution of the products, lower-status workers undertook the …