%0 Book
%B Studies in archaeology
%D 1984
%T Inka Road System
%A Hyslop, John
%C Orlando, FL
%I Academic Press
%L UCSB Main Lib F3429.3.R6
%P 377
%Z 3.10.99 - WRITING ON POST-TIWANAKU ALTIPLANO GROUPSThe road west and SW of Lake was one of two major roads penetrating into highland Qolla Suyu. The other route ran NE of the lake through the Oma Suyu division of Qollasuyu.Hyslop's SurveyInvestigated 182 km of road from a point 6km north of Hatuncolla to the town of Desaguadero in the southern end of the Lake.(p125)- preservation of road is not good, and vehicle traffic follows alternate roads.Altiplano groups:- Chief resource was camelid herds. Notes that Cardich (1980) claims agriculture may have been possible above 4100m in pre-Inka times (p118).Fortified Settlements- No evidence was found of any road system connecting hilltop forts (p118).- Though such a road system, had it existed, would have been preserved in the relatively undisturbed puna.Inka times in Urcasuyu- Lupaqa cabeceras were also the Inka Tampus, revealed that they were probably settlements that were established only upon the Inka domination of the altiplano. (p119)- Sites on Inka road from Hatuncolla to Zepita: no proof any existed prior to Inka domination (p136)- older ceramic styles persisted into Inka times.- all the sites on the road are located on hillslopes on lakeshore agricultural plains. None located directly on the plains, on hilltops, or in pastoral puna. (p136) Good drainage on slopes.Desaguadero River- "In Inka times a "pontoon" bridge with totora-reed bundle floats crossed the river, and an official managed the corss point (Cieza de León (1962 [1553]:263)  (p125)- a similar bridge was still in place when traveler E. George Squier passed through Desaguadero.