2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Archaeological studies of the Inca expansion in Mullupungo, southern highlands Ecuador
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23401032
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Archaeology
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MATSUMOTO Takehaya 東海大学, 文学部, 教授 (20408058)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | アンデス先住民史 / インカ国家 / 武力抗争 / 墓 / 埋葬 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study we carried out the archaeological investigations in the area of Mullupungo mountain range, located about 50km west of Tomebamba, one of the principal Inca cities in the south highland of Ecuador. In this area more than 2000 tombs at a rough estimate remained, whose general structure is a simple pit, about 1m-diameter and 1 to 1.5m-depth, dug on the ground. The principal purpose of our study is to explain the meaning of these tombs scattered in various zones of the area.
The result of the archaeological investigations in the area shows that people of the Inca like mitimaes, labors taken from other regions, were extensively attacked and killed by other native political unit, and that they were buried urgently in these simple tombs. These could be the first archaeological evidences of extensive battles between native people in the Inca states, which were often described in historical sources written by Spanish chroniclers.
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| Free Research Field |
人文学
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