Paria La Viexa : pre-Hispanic Settlement Patterns in the Paria Basin, Bolivia and its Inka Provincial Center

The book summarizes the results of the Paria Archaeological Project. Its main goal was to gain a better understanding of the settlement patterns in the Paria Basin from the Formative to the Colonial Period. One of the priorities was to learn more about the role of Paria, the Inka provincial center, in the region's life and its connection with the Cochabamba Valley as well as about the other similar provincial centers and their role in the administration and economy of the Inka Empire.
The systematic survey and mapping of Paria showed that it covered a total of 110 hectares and had a population between 5,000 and 8,000 living in hundreds of structures. The settlement was located at the junction of the imperial road running from Cuzco to the south and a side-road leading eastward to the subtropical regions, and it was enclosed by over 1,500 storehouses with a storage capacity of roughly 10,000 m3. On the basis of its excavated structures and the analyzed macrobotanical and faunal remains as well as the ceramic finds, Paria was the most important production, storage, logistic, and redistribution center of the Inka Empire on the Bolivian altiplano, which maintained dynamic ethnic, economic, and administrative relations with the altiplano, the Andean Mountain, and the mesothermic valleys lying to the east.

Contents
I. The Environmental Setting of the Paria Basin
II. Cultural Context and Chronology of the Bolivian Altiplano
III. Settlement Patterns in the Paria Basin
IV. Paria la Viexa: An Inka Provincial Center
V. Archaeometric Investigation of the Pre-Hispanic Pottery of the Paria Basin: Provenance and Technology
VI. Animal Exploitation in Inka and Early Colonial Period Paria
VII. Worked Skeletal Materials from Paria
VIII. Macrobotanical Remains Recovered during the Archaeological Investigations of the Paria Basin
IX. Paria in the Administrative and Economic System of the Inka Empire

Paperback, 290×205 mm, pp. 214, 117 Figures, Appendices, 16 color Plates, 4 Maps