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| house of the chosen women – state run female institution created by Pachacuti where the women were trained and educated to become priestesses, were sacrificial victims or were kept as secondary wives of Inca emperors or to be distributed as a sign of favor to successful generals, administrators or allies – Bingham thought MP to be this place |
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| young girls around 7 who were chosen by the Inca to live within the Allawasi |
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| the ancient ones’ – ancestors of Pueblo Indians who lived throughout NW New Mexico and NE Arizona – lived in stone houses tucked in canyons or on mesa tops – expert farmers survived in marginal conditions – three major sites at Mesa Verde, Kayenta, Chaco Canyon |
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| – culture related to the Anasazi who lived in the three major sites and outliers – people, places, architecture, etc. |
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| – last Sapa Inca (emperor) of Inca - son of Huayna Capac who was defeated his brother in civil war for control of empire – on victory march back he captured by Spanish and Spanish used him to enter Cuzco to steal gold from city - was then killed by Spanish |
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| Bingham called Inca ‘kin groups’ this – 14 Inca kanchas at MP were divided into these two Ayllu sectors “Upper (Hanan)” and “Lower (Hurin)” |
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| – site north of Chaco – largest Chaco outlier built between 1110 and 1120 and occupied for only a few decades – part of the supposed “meridian” |
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| leader of Yale Peruvian Expedition who rediscovered MP – not an educated archaeologist which lead to many of his false impressions of MP – three biggest false assumptions were that MP was Old Vilcabamba, that it was the birthplace of the first Inca king and that it was the home of the virgins of the sun |
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| Inca site was known to be a mining site - site of the end of Inca empire where the Battle of Cajamarca took place along with the capture and murder of Atahualpa |
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| Pueblo in Arizona built of stone masonry around a plaza with a D-shaped kiva – excavations here lead to the birth of processual archaeology – possible outlier to Chaco |
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| 41 lines that were thought to emanate from the Inca capital on which huacas were situated – seem to have both political and religious meaning |
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| Lekson theory that Chaco, Aztec and Casas Grandes are intentionally linked along a meridian alignment that symbolizes the sequence and continuity of their dominance in Pueblo prehistory – allows Chaco culture to extend through both space and time |
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