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Publicado 2014
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The Incan society, as well as other complex and ideological societies, within its organization, confirms different activities to satisfy its basic and also ideological necessities; one of these activities is based in textile making with useful, political and religious or other goals, which are conceived in Incan social behavioral patterns and these would characterize the designation of textiles for a specific social level. The Archaeological and Monumental site of Choquequirao, because of the complexity of its architectural and urban characteristics, should be understood from the conception of the planning of Cusco. It is true that the construction of its buildings was developed on and in relation of the difficult topography. This will maintain the conceptual organization patterns of the planning of Cusco; that would be the concept idea to build «New Cuzcos» which were mentioned by Cie...
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Publicado 2017
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The Inka society was established under a hierarchical but also nuclearized organization, the Inka always thought of a beginning, but not only mental, historical, but spatially or territorially, the system of ceques and the most important ritual of the Inka state was Qhapaq Qocha, A demonstration of how important everything should be, the zero point. So what does Cusco mean? There are several etymological analyzes in this regard, however the analysis must go from the perspective of the Cusco concept, in the mind of Inka society. Some chronicles, although not clearly related to the subject, have touched in their stories the idea that the Inka would construct New Cusco, which would imply not to the construction to urban and architectural similarity, but rather conceptual, clear that under the Criterion of an ideal spatial axis.
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Publicado 2012
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History has shown us that societies have been through stages of change since they started, a splendor stage and a slope stage, but they has not disappeared, they have adapted to abrupt changes emerging new societies with different features where this cycle has been starting again. This has been happening in Peru from ancestral times, not long ago, during the Late Intermediate, there were some societies that ruled not very large territories (compared to the ones that later the Inkas would dominate) where they had their own social and structural codes; when the Inkas arrived, those patterns were taken up or modified according to the necessities of this new social power which also presented its own social codes. The same thing happened at the arrival of the European invaders in the XVI century. Architecture in Torontoy is very complex due to the modifications that have taken place during th...