Brian S Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 99694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian S Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Huaca of Qollmay, Chinchaypujio, Cusco, Peru
The Ancient Inca Town Named Huayna Picchu
This paper assesses the original name of the Inca settlement now known as Machu Picchu. We examine three data sources: the field notes of Hiram Bingham, toponyms on nineteenth century maps, and information recorded in seventeenth century documents. The results uniformly suggest that the Inca city was originally called Picchu, or more likely Huayna Picchu, and that the name Machu Picchu became associated with the ruins starting in 1911 with Bingha…
Steven R. Gullberg, Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky
Steven R. Gullberg, Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. Hardback, 370 pp., 42 b/w illus., 275 colour illus. ISBN 978-3-030-48365. €135.19
Local Trade And Pottery Production In The Cusco Region Before And During The Wari Expansion
This paper assesses the impact of Wari state expansion on local trade networks in the Cusco region of southern Peru through an examination of the distribution of a locally-produced polychrome pottery style called Muyu Urqu. We present distribution data from regional surveys and excavation data from the village site of Ak’awillay to reconstruct the circulation of local ceramic wares and local economic activities before and after the Wari entered t…
The Ritual Landscape of the Inca
At the time of the European invasion of the Andes (1532 ce), many of the shrines (huacas) around Cuzco were organized along ritual pathways (ceques) that radiated out from the Temple of the Sun, at the heart of the city. According to the few existing descriptions of this ritual system, there were more than 328 shrines, and they were conceptually organized along forty-two paths. The shrines were represented by a wide range of natural features, suc…
Diet and foodways across five millennia in the Cusco region of Peru
The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
In the evening of March 17, 1611, the priest of the remote Andean town of Pampachiri, Juan Bautista de Albadán, died without a will. He had arrived in the region a decade before, and during his time as priest Albadán had amassed a small fortune in an otherwise impoverished region. Because Albadán died without a will and at that time there were no known heirs, the local governor (corregidor) was left with the task of drawing up an inventory of his…
Voices from Vilcabamba: Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire
The Cusco ceque system as shown in the Exsul immeritus Blas Valera populo suo
In this article I discuss a recently discovered drawing of the Cusco ceque system. A previous study of the drawing suggests that it is an inaccurate reproduction of the system. In contrast, I propose that the drawing is accurate and organizes information on the system in ways not considered by scholars before. While the accuracy of the drawing is confirmed, the question of authorship remains open
Inca Astronomy and Calendrics
Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance
Author(s): Bauer, Brian S.; Fonseca Santa Cruz, Javier; Araoz Silva, Miriam | Abstract: The sites of Vitcos and Espiritu Pampa are two of the most important Inca cities within the remote Vilcabamba region of Peru. The province has gained notoriety among historians, archaeologists and other students of the Inca, since it was from here that the last independent Incas waged a nearly forty year-long war (AD 1536–1572) against Spanish control of the A…
Rapayan. Directed by Francis Delfour. Brooklyn, N.Y: Icarus Films, 2009. 52 minutes. DVD. $390.00 purchase
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Regional perspectives on Wari state influence in Cusco, Peru (c. AD 600–1000)
The archaeological reconstruction of ancient states requires consistent regional measures of state-directed power and influence. This paper presents data from a series of systematic archaeological surveys in the Cusco region of highland Peru to evaluate patterns of influence by the Wari state during a period of colonization from ca. AD 600–1000. We discuss interpretive debates over the nature and intensity of Wari social power, suggesting that si…
A provenance study of archaeological obsidian from the Andahuaylas region of southern Peru
Cultural Transformations of the Chanka Homeland (Andahuaylas, Peru) During the Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1000–1400)
One of the largest demographic shifts to occur in Andean prehistory took place during the Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1000–1400). Across a large expanse of the central Andes a vast number of lower elevation settlements were abandoned and local populations were concentrated in newly constructed, defensibly positioned sites, located along high ridges. In this article we examine this dramatic settlement shift in relation to the Chanka ethnic grou…
The Hospital of San Andrés (Lima, Peru) and the Search for the Royal Mummies of The Incas
The fate of the mummies of the Inca kings following the Spanish conquest of Peru has been the focus of more than a century of historical and archaeological research. Several lines of evidence indicate that five of the royal mummies were deposited in the Hospital of San Andrés in Lima in 1560. In this work, we summarize what is currently known concerning the fate of the royal Inca mummies as well as the results of a recent ground-penetrating radar…
Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley
Evaluating socio-economic change in the Andes using oribatid mite abundances as indicators of domestic animal densities
An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru. Titu Cusi Yupanqui , Ralph Bauer
Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia: Final Results from the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka
Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca
The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas—the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance in the cultural development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently received the same kind of systematic archaeological survey long since…
The Settlement History of the Island of the Sun
Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru)
This article addresses Inca state formation in the central highlands of Peru. Using ethnohistoric materials and new archaeological survey data from three areas surrounding Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, we argue that rapid Inca expansion after C.E. 1400 was made possible by long-term processes of state formation and regional consolidation. From C.E. 1000-1400, a centralized state developed in the Cuzco Valley, extending its direct adminis…
Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
The early ceramics of the Inca heartland / Brian S. Bauer
Appendix 2
Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru)
This article addresses Inca state formation in the central highlands of Peru. Using ethnohistoric materials and new archaeological survey data from three areas surrounding Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, we argue that rapid Inca expansion after C.E. 1400 was made possible by long-term processes of state formation and regional consolidation. From C.E. 1000-1400, a centralized state developed in the Cuzco Valley, extending its direct adminis…
Legitimization of the State in Inca Myth and Ritual
Regional perspectives on Wari state influence in Cusco, Peru (c. AD 600–1000)
The archaeological reconstruction of ancient states requires consistent regional measures of state-directed power and influence. This paper presents data from a series of systematic archaeological surveys in the Cusco region of highland Peru to evaluate patterns of influence by the Wari state during a period of colonization from ca. AD 600–1000. We discuss interpretive debates over the nature and intensity of Wari social power, suggesting that si…
Pacariqtambo and the Mythical Origins of the Inca
In this study the Pacariqtambo origin myth of the Inca, as described in a number of different Spanish chronicles, is analyzed through examining archaeological data from the Province of Paruro (Department of Cuzco, Peru). The findings suggest that the rock outcrop of Puma Orco, located in the District of Pacariqtambo, may represent the Tambotoco of the Pacariqtambo origin myth, and that the nearby Inca ruins of Maukallaqta may have contained an or…
Diet and foodways across five millennia in the Cusco region of Peru
A provenance study of archaeological obsidian from the Andahuaylas region of southern Peru
Ritual Pathways of the Inca: An Analysis of the Collasuyu Ceques in Cuzco
The ceque system of Cuzco was composed of at least 328 shrines (huacas) organized along 42 hypothetical lines (ceques) that radiated out of the city of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca. Ethnohistoric research indicates that the system was conceptually linked to, and essentially reproduced, the fundamental social, political, spatial, and temporal divisions of the Cuzco region and Inca society. As such the ceque system is one of the most complex, ind…
The Sanctuary of Titicaca: Where the Sun Returns to Earth
In Inka mythology, a large sandstone rock on the Island of the Sun, in Lake Titicaca, was the origin place of the sun. It was there that the sun first emerged and designated the Inka as his children. Under Inka rule, and perhaps before, this rock was a destination of pilgrims who went to worship and make offerings to the sun. We present evidence that a set of solar markers existed on a ridge northwest of the sacred rock. These structures framed t…
The early ceramics of the Inca heartland / Brian S. Bauer
Appendix 2
Local Trade And Pottery Production In The Cusco Region Before And During The Wari Expansion
This paper assesses the impact of Wari state expansion on local trade networks in the Cusco region of southern Peru through an examination of the distribution of a locally-produced polychrome pottery style called Muyu Urqu. We present distribution data from regional surveys and excavation data from the village site of Ak’awillay to reconstruct the circulation of local ceramic wares and local economic activities before and after the Wari entered t…
Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance
Author(s): Bauer, Brian S.; Fonseca Santa Cruz, Javier; Araoz Silva, Miriam | Abstract: The sites of Vitcos and Espiritu Pampa are two of the most important Inca cities within the remote Vilcabamba region of Peru. The province has gained notoriety among historians, archaeologists and other students of the Inca, since it was from here that the last independent Incas waged a nearly forty year-long war (AD 1536–1572) against Spanish control of the A…
Evaluating socio-economic change in the Andes using oribatid mite abundances as indicators of domestic animal densities
Narratives of the Incas
Narratives of the Incas. Juan De Betanzos. Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton and Dana Buchanan from the Palma de Mallorca manuscript. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 326 pp
The Ancient Inca Town Named Huayna Picchu
This paper assesses the original name of the Inca settlement now known as Machu Picchu. We examine three data sources: the field notes of Hiram Bingham, toponyms on nineteenth century maps, and information recorded in seventeenth century documents. The results uniformly suggest that the Inca city was originally called Picchu, or more likely Huayna Picchu, and that the name Machu Picchu became associated with the ruins starting in 1911 with Bingha…
The Cusco ceque system as shown in the Exsul immeritus Blas Valera populo suo
In this article I discuss a recently discovered drawing of the Cusco ceque system. A previous study of the drawing suggests that it is an inaccurate reproduction of the system. In contrast, I propose that the drawing is accurate and organizes information on the system in ways not considered by scholars before. While the accuracy of the drawing is confirmed, the question of authorship remains open
Archaeological Investigations at Maukallaqta and Puma Orco, Department of Cuzco, Peru
From 1984 to 1987, the Pacariqtambo Archaeological Project conducted systematic surveys and test excavations in the northeastern half of the Province of Paruro, Department of Cuzco, Peru. The aim of the project was to investigate the rural organization of the people living in this section of the Inca heartland and their relations with the imperial city of Cuzco before the Spanish conquest. The study area, a total of 600 km.2 extended from the rui…
Pacariqtambo and the Mythical Origins of the Inca
In this study the Pacariqtambo origin myth of the Inca, as described in a number of different Spanish chronicles, is analyzed through examining archaeological data from the Province of Paruro (Department of Cuzco, Peru). The findings suggest that the rock outcrop of Puma Orco, located in the District of Pacariqtambo, may represent the Tambotoco of the Pacariqtambo origin myth, and that the nearby Inca ruins of Maukallaqta may have contained an or…
Ritual Pathways of the Inca: An Analysis of the Collasuyu Ceques in Cuzco
The ceque system of Cuzco was composed of at least 328 shrines (huacas) organized along 42 hypothetical lines (ceques) that radiated out of the city of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca. Ethnohistoric research indicates that the system was conceptually linked to, and essentially reproduced, the fundamental social, political, spatial, and temporal divisions of the Cuzco region and Inca society. As such the ceque system is one of the most complex, ind…
Legitimization of the State in Inca Myth and Ritual
Narratives of the Incas
Narratives of the Incas. Juan De Betanzos. Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton and Dana Buchanan from the Palma de Mallorca manuscript. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. 326 pp
The Sanctuary of Titicaca: Where the Sun Returns to Earth
In Inka mythology, a large sandstone rock on the Island of the Sun, in Lake Titicaca, was the origin place of the sun. It was there that the sun first emerged and designated the Inka as his children. Under Inka rule, and perhaps before, this rock was a destination of pilgrims who went to worship and make offerings to the sun. We present evidence that a set of solar markers existed on a ridge northwest of the sacred rock. These structures framed t…
The early ceramics of the Inca heartland / Brian S. Bauer
Appendix 2
Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon
Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru)
This article addresses Inca state formation in the central highlands of Peru. Using ethnohistoric materials and new archaeological survey data from three areas surrounding Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, we argue that rapid Inca expansion after C.E. 1400 was made possible by long-term processes of state formation and regional consolidation. From C.E. 1000-1400, a centralized state developed in the Cuzco Valley, extending its direct adminis…
Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia: Final Results from the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka
Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca
The Cuzco Valley of Peru was both the sacred and the political center of the largest state in the prehistoric Americas—the Inca Empire. From the city of Cuzco, the Incas ruled at least eight million people in a realm that stretched from modern-day Colombia to Chile. Yet, despite its great importance in the cultural development of the Americas, the Cuzco Valley has only recently received the same kind of systematic archaeological survey long since…
The Settlement History of the Island of the Sun
An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru. Titu Cusi Yupanqui , Ralph Bauer
The Hospital of San Andrés (Lima, Peru) and the Search for the Royal Mummies of The Incas
The fate of the mummies of the Inca kings following the Spanish conquest of Peru has been the focus of more than a century of historical and archaeological research. Several lines of evidence indicate that five of the royal mummies were deposited in the Hospital of San Andrés in Lima in 1560. In this work, we summarize what is currently known concerning the fate of the royal Inca mummies as well as the results of a recent ground-penetrating radar…
Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley
Evaluating socio-economic change in the Andes using oribatid mite abundances as indicators of domestic animal densities
Cultural Transformations of the Chanka Homeland (Andahuaylas, Peru) During the Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1000–1400)
One of the largest demographic shifts to occur in Andean prehistory took place during the Late Intermediate Period (A.D. 1000–1400). Across a large expanse of the central Andes a vast number of lower elevation settlements were abandoned and local populations were concentrated in newly constructed, defensibly positioned sites, located along high ridges. In this article we examine this dramatic settlement shift in relation to the Chanka ethnic grou…
A provenance study of archaeological obsidian from the Andahuaylas region of southern Peru
Rapayan. Directed by Francis Delfour. Brooklyn, N.Y: Icarus Films, 2009. 52 minutes. DVD. $390.00 purchase
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Regional perspectives on Wari state influence in Cusco, Peru (c. AD 600–1000)
The archaeological reconstruction of ancient states requires consistent regional measures of state-directed power and influence. This paper presents data from a series of systematic archaeological surveys in the Cusco region of highland Peru to evaluate patterns of influence by the Wari state during a period of colonization from ca. AD 600–1000. We discuss interpretive debates over the nature and intensity of Wari social power, suggesting that si…
Inca Astronomy and Calendrics
Vilcabamba and the Archaeology of Inca Resistance
Author(s): Bauer, Brian S.; Fonseca Santa Cruz, Javier; Araoz Silva, Miriam | Abstract: The sites of Vitcos and Espiritu Pampa are two of the most important Inca cities within the remote Vilcabamba region of Peru. The province has gained notoriety among historians, archaeologists and other students of the Inca, since it was from here that the last independent Incas waged a nearly forty year-long war (AD 1536–1572) against Spanish control of the A…
Voices from Vilcabamba: Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire
The Cusco ceque system as shown in the Exsul immeritus Blas Valera populo suo
In this article I discuss a recently discovered drawing of the Cusco ceque system. A previous study of the drawing suggests that it is an inaccurate reproduction of the system. In contrast, I propose that the drawing is accurate and organizes information on the system in ways not considered by scholars before. While the accuracy of the drawing is confirmed, the question of authorship remains open
The Ritual Landscape of the Inca
At the time of the European invasion of the Andes (1532 ce), many of the shrines (huacas) around Cuzco were organized along ritual pathways (ceques) that radiated out from the Temple of the Sun, at the heart of the city. According to the few existing descriptions of this ritual system, there were more than 328 shrines, and they were conceptually organized along forty-two paths. The shrines were represented by a wide range of natural features, suc…
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