The Incas: New Perpectives
• Provides the most current and accessible analysis of what we know (and don't yet know) about Inca civilization• Examines the new techniques, major questions, and ongoing controversies driving the field of Inca studies• Details the innovative ways the Incas solved urgent problems in areas of political expansion, transportation, agriculture, medicine, communication, and social organization• Maps of the Andes region and Inca lands showing prominent population centers and geographic features• A concise, informative chronology of the rise and fall of Inca civilization, from the earliest evidence of cultural life to their destruction at the hands of Pizarro and his conquistadors"[I]t would make an excellent introductory text for an undergraduate course focusing on the Inca."-About.com--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.