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The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the
understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. Comparing
and contrasting the evolutionary sequences from different civilizations is one
approach to discovering their unique development. One area for comparison is in
the Central Andes where several societies remained in isolation without a
written language. As a direct result, the only resource for understanding these
societies is in their material artefacts. In this work, the focus is on what the material remains reveal about the
sociopolitical structures of the Central Andes region. This focus on ancient
identity politics adopts a perspective that explicitly interrogates the
processes and strategies by which higher social groups acted as self-interested
agents in the achievement and maintenance of differential status, including:
symbols of power and their role in the construction of an elite identity;
social legitimization and achievement of economic or material power; design of
architecture for the display of power and exercise of social control; and
promotion of labour-intensive agriculture for the purpose of surplus production
and extraction. The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the
understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. In this
work, the focus is on what material remains reveal about the sociopolitical
structures of the Central Andes region.
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