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THE LOST HALF OF ANDEAN ARCHITECTURE: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ROOFING TRADITIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL USE AT CHINCHERO, PERU

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2018

Stella Nair ,
Sonia Archila  and
Christine A. Hastorf
Stella Nair
Affiliation:
Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Sonia Archila
Affiliation:
Departmento de Antropología, Universidad de los Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Christine A. Hastorf*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
*
(hastorf@berkeley.edu, corresponding author)
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Abstract

This paper examines an eighteenth-century roof in Chinchero, Peru to show the critical role played by roofs in Andean communities across time. Roofs can reveal identity constructions, continuation of traditions, adaptations to new influences, and relationships to local environments and the sacred. We present a discussion of the importance of roofs in architectural history, the critical role played by roofs in Inca architecture, and a description of the colonial period roof in Chinchero, along with its facture, dates of construction, botanical identification, and the environmental zones from where these items could have been gathered.

En este artículo se analiza un techo del siglo dieciocho en Chinchero, Perú, con el objetivo de mostrar la importancia que tuvieron los techos en las comunidades andinas a lo largo del tiempo. Los techos revelan construcciones de identidad, continuidad de tradiciones, adaptaciones a nuevas influencias y relaciones con los ambientes locales y con lo sagrado. Presentamos aquí una discusión sobre la importancia de los techos para la historia de la arquitectura y el papel fundamental que estos desempeñaron en la arquitectura Inca. Asimismo, describimos el techo del periodo colonial en Chinchero y discutimos su fabricación, fechas de construcción, identificación botánica de los materiales y las zonas ambientales donde estos elementos podrían haberse obtenido.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 222 - 238
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Copyright © 2018 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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