In this article we present the results of the archaeological studies carried out at the Inca administrative center of Tambo Viejo, the only facility of its character built by the Inca in the Acari Valley of the Peruvian south coast region. This study reveals, among others, the architectural complexity of the site and its enormous size. Likewise, this study demonstrates that Tambo Viejo has a long sequence of human occupation that began early in the Early Intermediate period and continued to colonial times. In this paper we evaluate the Inca ocupation of the site, taking into consideration the architecture. This analysis demonstrates that Tambo Viejo was established following an Inca plan; however, the architecture is local, suggesting that the builders of the site were from Acari. This observation allows us to argue that the Inca administration adapted to local construction patterns.

El énfasis principal del Informe que se presenta a continuación, está en la identificación de los estilos de cerámica y de sus relaciones cronológicas de los patrones culturales que a su vez integran el estudio de la arqueología. Por eso, el problema no solo consiste en la observación y documentación de las relaciones estilísticas sino también en determinar con la mayor exactitud posible la secuencia cronológica de los estilos de una zona y la correlación cronológica, que existe entre la sucesión de estilos en diferentes áreas. Puesto que la semejanza estilística no significa siempre contemporaneidad y desde que, por otro lado, existen a un mismo tiempo tradiciones de estilo completamente distintas, es necesario tratar las relaciones de tiempo que hay entre los estilos, conforme a unidades fijas de tiempo, que no contienen, referencias de carácter estilístico. Como no ...

In this article we present the results of the analysis of the ceramic assemblage coming from Tambo Viejo, the single most important Inca establishment in the Acari Valley. Among others, this study reveals that at the time of the Inca conquest of Acari, there was a local ceramic style that already received some influence from the valleys found immediately to the north. With the Inca presence, the local style continued recei-ving northern influences, but also began incorporating new decorative elements, this time of Inca origins. Selected and previously modified Inca designs were incorporated. This evidence indicates that the Inca conquest of Acari did not represent the end of the local style; on the contrary, the local style survived to the point that Inca ceramics are rare in Tambo Viejo. This is more likely the result of the pacific incorpora-tion of Acari to Inca dominium. At the same ...