Los caminos Wari entre Moquegua y Majes en el sur del Perú

• Autor: Williams, Patrick Ryan
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/199365
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia/article/view/28612/26354; https://doi.org/10.18800/boletindearqueologiapucp.202302.003
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Landscape archaeology; GIS; Exchange; Phenomenology; Cultural ecology; Arqueología del paisaje; SIG; Intercambio; Fenomenología; Ecología cultural; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.01.02

From its capital in the Ayacucho highlands of Peru, the Wari Empire spread its influence over 1300 lateral kilometers from Cajamarca in the north to Cuzco and Moquegua in the south. Along its southern periphery, Wari presence has been documented most convincingly between 1000 and 3000 meters in elevation in valleys such as the Ocoña, Majes, Sihuas, Vitor, Chili, and Moquegua, where archaeological survey has been carried out in parts of this 300-kilometer stretch of the southern Peruvian sierra. In this paper, I examine the evidence for a Wari southern road and the settlements that connected the far southern part of Peru and eventually to the Ayacucho heartland to the north. I argue that the quichua ecological niche is a primary focus of Wari cultural landscapes and dictated the placement of the principal Wari road network. I further examine the organization of settlement along the proposed royal road, as well as the symbolic and demographic components of its route. Finally, I investigate the role of the Wari road in promulgating a Wari imperial political economy in the far south.