Terence N D'Altroy

Biographic Data

ID4531501
NAMETerence N D'Altroy
GIVEN NAMESTerence N
FAMILY NAMED'Altroy
SIGNATUREALTROY T N D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS567
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX9

  • An Americanist's Take on Against the Grain

    Open AccessTerence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2019References: 1

    In both public and professional accounts of the grand sweep of human history, a few questions recurrently beg for attention. How did technology—broadly understood to encompass everything from control of fire to domestication of food sources, to craft manufacture, to communication and transportation—transform human life? How did social complexity come into being: e.g. classes, formal institutions and the state? Why did some ancient societies inves…

  • Inca Political Organization, Economic Institutions, and Infrastructure

    Terence N D’altroy, Terence N D'Altroy et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of the Incas2018Cited by: 1

    This chapter describes Inca political and economic organization and the infrastructure established to support imperial administration. Inca conceptualizations of politics and economics differed from those of the West, and the organization of power in the imperial capital relied heavily on the ruler's person. Provincial areas were conceived as four distinct regions bound to the ruler by a hierarchy of Inca governors, record-keepers, and local offi…

  • The Central Andean Region in Prehistory

    Terence N D’altroy, Barry W Cunliffe et al.BOOKThe Oxford handbook of archaeology2009

    This article examines the prehistory of the Andean region based on archaeological evidence. It explains that the Andean region is one of the six places in the world where state society arose independently. The region's diverse small-scale societies domesticated virtually all of their animals, their food, and their industrial crops, and they began to settle in permanent villages between about 8,000 and 3 ,000 bc. By the second millennium, the peop…

  • Empire and Domestic Economy

    Open AccessTerence N D’altroy, Terence N D'Altroy et al.BOOKEmpire and domestic economy2002Cited by: 68References: 26

  • Inka Rule in the Northern Calchaquí Valley, Argentina

    Terence N D’altroy, Terence N D'Altroy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2000Cited by: 38References: 15

    Inka rule in the northern Calchaquí Valley in NW Argentina employed a varied strategy that drew the region's societies into the empire in the 15th century A.C. Surface survey, site mapping, and excavation, combined with review of historical documents, show that the Inkas applied measures designed to ensure security, intensify production of agropastoral and mineral resources, introduce state ideology, administer state activities, and establish cul…

  • Recent Studies on the Inkas

    Terence N D''Altroy, Terence N D'AltroyARTICLEColonial Latin American Review2000

  • The Archaeology of City-States: Cross Cultural Approaches

    Open AccessTerence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1999Cited by: 5

    The Archaeology of City-States: Cross Cultural Approaches. Deborah L. Nichols and Thomas H. Charlton. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. 335 pp

  • Recent research on the central Andes

    Open AccessTerence N D’altroy, Terence N D'AltroyARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research1997Cited by: 1References: 90

  • [Comments and Replies]

    Wendy Ashmore, Elizabeth M Brumfiel et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1996

  • Provincial Power in the Inka Empire

    Hernán Horna, Terence N D''Altroy et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1995

  • Factions and political development in the central Andes

    Open AccessTerence N D’altroy, Terence N D'AltroyCHAPTERFactional Competition and…1994

    Investigators of prehistory generally concur that political competition has often been critical to the development of social complexity. Among the key forms of political contention are hierarchical, peer, polity, expansionist, and factional competition. These are politically joined processes whose significance varies (1) as the complexity and reach of the sociopolitical unit is transformed, (2) as the interaction emphasizes internally or external…

  • Chavín and the Origins of Andean Civilization

    Terence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1994Cited by: 24

  • Provincial power in the Inka empire

    Terence N D'AltroyBOOKProvincial power in the Inka empire1992Cited by: 53

    Sketches a general model of government for the Inca Empire from Ecuador to central Chile and explains Incan provincial strategy in the central sierra of Peru.

  • La Galgada, Peru: A Preceramic Culture in Transition

    Open AccessTerence N D’altroy, Terence N D'AltroyARTICLELatin American Anthropology Review1992

    La Galgada, Peru: A Preceramic Culture in Transition. Terence Grieder, Alberto Bueno Mendoza, C. Earle Smith, Jr., and Robert M. Malina. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. 282 pp., appendices, bibliography, index, 13 color plates, 173 figures, 24 tables. $35.00(cloth). ISBN 0–292–74647–4

  • La Galgada, Peru: A Preceramic Culture in Transition:La Galgada, Peru: A Preceramic Culture in Transition

    Open AccessTerence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLELatin American Anthropology Review1992

  • Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru

    Terence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1990

  • The Provincial Organization of Inka Ceramic Production

    Open AccessTerence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1990Cited by: 26References: 8

    The Inka empire was supported by goods and services provided by both generalized and specialized labor. To gain insight into how goods were produced and distributed in the imperial economy, 173 sherds from Cuzco, Lake Titicaca, the upper Mantaro Valley, and Tarma were analyzed (INAA) for materials composition. Results show that production and consumption of Inka ceramics were focused within regions, although two plates probably made in Cuzco were…

  • Terracing and Irrigation in the Peruvian Highlands [and Comments and Reply]

    David Guillet, David L Browman et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1987Cited by: 24

  • Transitions in Power: Centralization of Wanka Political Organization under Inka Rule

    Terence N D''Altroy, Terence N D’altroy et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1987Cited by: 25

    This paper uses documentary and archaeological data to examine the changes in the political organization of the Wanka ethnic group of the central Peruvian highlands that occurred as a consequence of their incorporation into the Inka Empire. In the last couple of centuries prior to the Inka conquest, Wanka society was comprised of a series of small, increasingly hierarchical polities competing over productive resources. Under the Inkas (I460-1533)…

  • Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]

    Terence N D’altroy, Terence N D'Altroy et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1985Cited by: 266References: 7

    The development of the regionally integrated institutions of an expanding state society is predicated on the growth of systems of economic support. Both expansion of existing systems of finance and the development of alternative systems of revenue, such as tribute, administered exchange, and centralized taxation, may be of central importance to the state political economy. This paper examines the reorganization of the economic systems of the Inka…

  • The Distribution and Contents of Inca State Storehouses in the Xauxa Region of Peru

    Open AccessTerence N D’altroy, Terence N D'Altroy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1984Cited by: 36References: 7

    The activities of the Inca state in the Xauxa region of the Peruvian central highlands were partially supported by the stockpiling of agricultural, gathered, and craft goods in over 2,000 storehouses, distributed among 52 architectural complexes. The spatial organization and architectural standardization of the storage facilities suggest that the accumulation and disbursement of these goods within the province was centrally managed, but that mate…