The pre-columbian chiefdoms of the northern Andean region (today's Colombia) were related in an interregional network of interacting societies. The Ph.D. thesis of 1992 is reconstructing that network and describing the participating... more
The pre-columbian chiefdoms of the northern Andean region (today's Colombia) were related in an interregional network of interacting societies. The Ph.D. thesis of 1992 is reconstructing that network and describing the participating chiefdoms including the Muisca as the second largest political entity in South America besides the Inca empire.
The pre-columbian chiefdoms of the northern Andean region (today's Colombia) were related in an interregional network of interacting societies. The Ph.D. thesis of 1992 is reconstructing that network and describing the participating... more
The pre-columbian chiefdoms of the northern Andean region (today's Colombia) were related in an interregional network of interacting societies. The Ph.D. thesis of 1992 is reconstructing that network and describing the participating chiefdoms including the Muisca as the second largest political entity in South America besides the Inca empire.
The Muisca - the largest political entity in the prehispanic Andes besides the Inka empire - seemed to be in the process of forming a pristine state. The economy and society of the Muisca in prehistoric Colombia is described and analyzed... more
The Muisca - the largest political entity in the prehispanic Andes besides the Inka empire - seemed to be in the process of forming a pristine state. The economy and society of the Muisca in prehistoric Colombia is described and analyzed in respect of state formation.
The Chibcha-speaking Muisca (about 10th to 16th century A.D.) produced special tumbaga objects that are called tunjos. They have been used as burial objects and provide an interesting iconography.
Published together with Peter Kaulicke, PUCP. The Linden-Museum Stuttgart, State Museum of Ethnology of Baden-Württemberg, includes in its Latin American collection three tumbaga objects: two masks and a golden fox head. Letters and... more
Published together with Peter Kaulicke, PUCP. The Linden-Museum Stuttgart, State Museum of Ethnology of Baden-Württemberg, includes in its Latin American collection three tumbaga objects: two masks and a golden fox head. Letters and reports from the beginning of the 20th century prove that these objects came from the Pyramid of the Moon or Huaca de la Luna of the Moche culture, Peru. Peter Kaulicke, following a stylistic analysis, proposes to date those tumbaga objects as one of the earliest of the Moche cultures.
This book includes the following papers: "Buscando un Inca de aqui y de alla. Los incas de nuestro tiempo, Alemania y Lima, Peru" by Karoline Noack; "Collecting Inca Antiquities: Antiquarianism and the Inca Past in 19th Century Cusco"... more
This book includes the following papers: "Buscando un Inca de aqui y de alla. Los incas de nuestro tiempo, Alemania y Lima, Peru" by Karoline Noack; "Collecting Inca Antiquities: Antiquarianism and the Inca Past in 19th Century Cusco" by Stefanie Gaenger; "The Inca Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Genesis and Contexts" by Manuela Fisher; "Visions of the Inca Dynasty. Narrative Syyles, Emblematic Dress and the Power of Ancestors" by Ann H. Peters; "How did Huanuco Pampa Become a Ruin? From Thriving Settlement to Disappearing Walls" by Monica Barnes; "The Material Remains of Inca Power among Imperial Heartland Communities" by Kylie E. Quave and R. Alan Covey; "The Inca Takeover of the Ancient Centers in the Highlands of Piura" by Cesar W. Astuhuaman Gonzales; "Las motivaciones economicas y religiosas de la expansion incaica hacia la cuenca del lago Titicaca" by David Oshige Adams; "Inca Offerings Associated with the Frozen Mummies from Mount Llullaillaco" by Constanza Ceruti; "Tracing the Inca Past. Ritual Movement and Social Memory in the Inca Imperial Capital" by Steve Kosiba; "The Situa Ritual of the Inca. Metaphor and Performance of the State" by Brian S. Bauer and David A. Reid; "Building Tension, Dilemmas of the Built Environment through Inca and Spanish Rule" by Steven A. Wernke; "Sistema de tenencia de tierras de ayllus y panacas incas en el valle del Cusco, siglos XVI–XVII” by Donato Amado Gonzales; “What Would Have Happened After the Inca Civil War” by Kerstin Nowack.
