The Lost Half of Andean Architecture

Eighteenth-Century Roofing Traditions and Environmental Use at Chinchero, Peru

Bibliographic Data

ID4374388
AuthorsStella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles), Sonia Archila (0000-0002-2135-5850, Universidad de los Andes), C A Hastorf (0000-0002-4661-5524, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume29
Issue2
Pages222-238
Publication date2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/laq.2018.4
OpenAlexW2801698410
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This paper examines an eighteenth-century roof in Chinchero, Peru to show the critical role played by roofs in Andean communities across time. Roofs can reveal identity constructions, continuation of traditions, adaptations to new influences, and relationships to local environments and the sacred. We present a discussion of the importance of roofs in architectural history, the critical role played by roofs in Inca architecture, and a description of the colonial period roof in Chinchero, along with its facture, dates of construction, botanical identification, and the environmental zones from where these items could have been gathered

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Geography · Identification · Roof · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Architecture · Ecology

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