Explosive Expansion, Sociotechnical Diversity, and Fragile Sovereignty in the Domain of the Inka

Societies of the late prehispanic Andes—the Inkas principal among them—have long figured as “exceptions to the rule” in social evolutionary schemata, in large measure because they seemingly lacked key technological hallmarks of complex societies found in other world regions, despite their observed l...

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Main Author: Steven A. Wernke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsinghua University Press 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Social Computing
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Online Access:https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.23919/JSC.2021.0016