Landscape, Social Memory, and Materiality in the Calchaquí Valley during Inka Domination in Northwest Argentina

During the last 30 years, investigations centered on Tawantinsuyu have provided new data regarding the nature and characteristics of the empire and have shown variability in the processes of conquest and consolidation based on interdisciplinary approaches linking archaeology, history, paleoenvironmental studies, geography, and toponymy, among others. I explore the micropolitical processes of a sector of Northwest Argentina (NWA) that was part of Qullasuyu in this chapter, with the goal of understanding Tawantinsuyu as a dynamic political entity that faced particular circumstances in every region, while recognizing that the differential development of archaeological research in the Andes may have accentuated or