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The Effect of the Inka State on Sausa Agricultural Production and Crop Consumption

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Christine A. Hastorf
Christine A. Hastorf*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Abstract

Through detailed paleoethnobotanical data analysis, this paper discusses the agricultural production of the prehistoric Sausa people of the Andean central highlands in the context of their autonomous regional political organization. This pattern then is compared with changes in agricultural production when the Sausa were part of the Inka empire. The evidence implies that the Inka not only required local residents to work for state production but also influenced individual household production and access to resources. The data suggest that the Inka intervened in local production at the household level, perhaps even requiring individual groups to produce crops for the state on their own lands. Paleoethnobotanical data are best used for discussions of crop production, yet by selecting specific subsets of data a view of crop consumption also is provided. Paleoethnobotanical data from household floors are compared to more direct stable-isotope data from human bones, again providing evidence for how the Inka affected the Sausa diet.

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Résumé

A través del análisis de datos paleoetnobotánicos detallados, este trabajo se enfoca en la productién agrícola del grupo prehispánico Sausa, en los Andes centrales, dentro del contexto de su organizatión político autónoma y regional. Los resultados son entonces comparados con los cambios registrados en la producción agrícola al ser incorporados–los sausa–al imperio Inca. La evidencia muestra que los incas no solamente exigieron que los miembros trabajaran para la productión central del imperio pero que tambien influyeron en la productión individual por unidad familiar y en el accesoi a los recursos. Los datos sugieren que los incas intervinieron en la producción local al nivel familiar quizá exigiendo a gropos individuates la producción para el Inca en sus propias tierras. Los datos paleoetnobotánicos son empleados para el estudio de la producción de cultivos. La atención puesta en ciertos grupos de datos específicos permite también la observatión del consumo de productos. Los datos paleoetnobotánicos obtenidos de los residuos encontrados en los pisos de las unidades familiares son comparados con datos de isótopos estables más directos provenientes de restos humanos. Esta comparatión da bases a la evidencia de que los incas han tenido efectos sobre la dieta de los sausa.

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American Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 262 - 290
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1990

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