The research was part of a proposed bailout of 2007, made in one of the many archaeological sites that are being occupied by the increasing urbanization for the slopes of the valley of Cusco. With the arrival of the Spaniards to the city of Cusco, this place was densely occupied, both the central core, as in the surrounding area of the city where the population lived in villages. Conventomoqo was a small domestic village in the the right margin of the Huatanay River, and it was settled on a hill in an area that was already previously occupied from the formative period. The radiocarbon dated obtained in the place show that this place is late and would be placed in the Inca period-colonial, agreeing with the idea that the populations continued to occupy these places until the viceroy Toledo, in 1572, he makes the reduction in eight parishes of the Inca peoples who lived on the outskirts of...

This work treats about the interaction between the ceramic styles Derived Chanapata and the styles of the Early Intermediate Period like Qotakalli and a “local” ceramic during this period and the beginning of the Middle Horizon in the archaeological site Conventomoqo in the Huatanay valley. Conventomoqo is an interesting site where a stratigraphic sequence from the Early Horizon to the Inca period exists. The site was first identified by Bauer in his extensive prospection of the Cusco valley (2008) and by the Nacional Institute of Culture of Cusco. The archaeological excavations allowed us to obtain indications to propose that the Derived Chanapata style was still being produced and used in Conventomoqo when the Qotakalli style was densely diffused in the Huatanay valley. Furthermore the results of the excavation and the analysis of the ceramic led us to put a question mark on a cera...

In world history, states often used propaganda to claim control over a contiguous territory. However, despite these assertions, state control was always discontinuous, that is, more intensive in some parts than in others. In the prehispanic Andes, Spanish colonial chronicles echoed Inca propaganda, repeating that the empire had continuous territorial control in the Cusco heartland. This article departs from that perspective and focuses on Machuqolqa, a small village first occupied between 1300 and 1400 AD with an intermittent and semi-mobile agropastoral occupation. Starting in the 15th century and throughout the Inca occupation, the site changed and included domestic structures in addition to food storage buildings, which were used to accumulate and then redistribute resources to local ethnic groups. This research will demonstrate how pre-existing groups at Machuqolqa and Raqchi, a near...