ARCHEOLOGY: The Architectural Production of the Inca site of Moqi

Abstract

This work is part of the Archaeological Research Project Moqi-Peru, (sponsored by the Private University of Tacna) in its three seasons. We consider the project an option to know the presence of the Inca Empire in the valleys of Tacna and its relationship with the structures and institutions established by the Cusco capital in the conquered territories outside the immediate sphere of the capital. In general terms, we intend with the beginning of this project to determine the formal characteristics of the architecture of the archaeological site and its differences between Moqi Alto and Moqi Bajo; define the temporality of the archaeological site, its function and economic relations in the internal context and its articulation with the Inka state; and to know the demographic characteristics of the population and their social relations, through the mortuary component in Moqi Alto and Moqi Bajo.