Agriculture and the Onset of Political Inequality before the Inka

Abstract

List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: politics, agriculture, and inequality Part I. Political Inequality and Economics: 2. The onset of political inequality 3. The economics of intensive Andean agriculture Part II. Socio-Political Change in the Mantaro Region: 4. Sausa cultural setting of the region 5. Upper Mantaro archaeological site and settlement data 6. Regional socio-political structures: Wanka II hierarchical developments Part III. Agricultural Production in the Mantaro Region: 7. The regional environment and its crops 8. Defining modern land-use zones 9. Pre-Hispanic agricultural methods and cropping patterns 10. Pre-Hispanic production potentials 11. Palaeoethnobotanical data, agricultural production, and food Part IV. The Negotiation Of Andean Agriculture in Political Change: 12. Analysis of change in agricultural production 13. Defending the heights Appendices References cited.