Abstract
During the sixth through ninth centuries, a distinctive ceramic style and iconography were spread through much of Peru. Archaeological research clearly shows the center of dispersal to have been the site of Huari (Menzel 1964, 1968, 1977; Knobloch 1991). During these same centuries it is also clear that Huari became one of the largest cities of the precolumbian Andes (Isbell 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986; Isbell, Brewster-Wray and Spickard 1991; Rowe 1963). Furthermore, centers with Huari style architecture appeared intrusively in distant parts of the Peruvian highlands—probably the first prehistoric Andean evidence for provincial administrative centers (Isbell 1977, 1989, 1991a, 1991b; Isbell and Schreiber 1978; Lumbreras 1974; McEwan 1984, 1991; Rowe 1956, 1963; Schreiber 1978, 1987a, 1987b, 1991, 1992; J. Topic 1991; Topic and Topic 1985a). Finally, at least one Huari fortress has been identified, ensconced deep inside Tiahuanaco territory (Watanabe 1984; Moseley, Feldman, Goldstein, and Watanabe 1991). I know of no comparable evidence for military conquest and occupation of enemy land at an earlier date in the Andes.
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Isbell, W.H. (1997). Reconstructing Huari. In: Manzanilla, L. (eds) Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies. Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1848-2_8
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