Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

5/1/1991 - 2/28/1993

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$16,280.00 (approved)
$16,280.00 (awarded)


The Ceque System of Cusco

FAIN: RO-22282-91

Institute for New World Archaeology (Bethesda, MD 20816)
Brian S. Bauer (Project Director: October 1990 to March 1993)

To support archaeological investigation of the Inca ceque system, a configuration of lines radiating from Cusco (in Peru) and linking mountain shrines. The Spanish recorded this system at the time of the conquest in the 16th century.