Warfare and the built environment -- The Colla and their lands -- Studying fortifications -- Hierarchy and heterarchy within pukara communities -- Allies and enemies : pukaras in their spatial world -- Explaining Colla war : pukaras through time -- Fractured landscapes : fortification and regional histories
Summary
By focusing on the pre-Inca society in this key region of the Andes, Elizabeth Arkush demonstrates how a thorough archaeological investigation of these hillfort towns reveals new ways to study the sociopolitical organization of pre-Columbian societies
