Washington, DC : National Museum of the American Indian in association with Smithsonian Books, [2015]
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
- Preface / by G. Wayne Clough — Foreword / by Kevin Gover — Introduction : Strong in our hearts : the legacy of the Inka Road / José Barreiro — The Qhapaq Ñan and its landscapes / Victoria Castro — The Inka road system in the Valley of Cusco / Donato Amado Gonzales — Inka city planning in Cusco / Ricardo Mar Medina and José Alejandro Beltrán-Caballero — Mountains and the sacred landscape of the Inka / Christian Vitry — The Inka trails near Machu Picchu / Kenneth R. Wright and Ruth M. Wright — Spanning the Andes : history and technology of Inka suspension bridges / John Ochsendorf — Qhapaq Ñan and the khipu : Inka administration on the road and along the cord / Gary Urton — Messages from the Qhapaq Ñan : the chaskis and their contribution to Andean communication / Sergio Martin — Llama caravans / Axel E. Nielsen — The Inka Road to the Chinchaysuyu / José Luis Pino Matos — Ceques, roads, and astronomy in Cusco and the Inka empire / R.T. Zuidema — Tampus / Mauricio Rodríguez Uribe — The Inka in Chile / José Berenguer — Qhapaq Ñan : Andean road system through the Collasuyu to the end of the Tawantinsuyu / J. Roberto Bárcena — Engineering the Inka Road / Clifford Schexnayder, Christine M. Fiori, and Gerardo Chang Recavarren — Inka in Tiwanaku / Alexei Vranich — Salt routes from Uyuni and Atacama / Karina A. Yager — The Contisuyu road / Edmundo de la Vega Machicao — Antisuyu / Mario A. Rivera — The coca route / Samantha Pary Ghayour McKnew — From Inka Road to royal road : the Inka Road in colonial times / Carmen Arellano — Qeros and long-distance exchange / Emily Kaplan — The living road / Ramiro Matos Mendieta.
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