Warfare in the Central Andes

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Rather than following a linear trajectory of development, warfare in the central Andes rose and fell in intensity and assumed different forms depending on its social and political context. While small-scale, periodic conflicts were likely present from Archaic times onward, it is in the centuries just after the fall of Chavín that pervasive and frequent warfare is first clearly evident. The Late Intermediate period, especially in the highlands, forms another horizon of pervasive conflict, in some regions probably corresponding to territorial wars over land and resources. Even when Andean warfare itself was not intense, militarism and war-related themes were central to the construction of elite identity and masculinity. They were drawn on repeatedly in elite-sponsored artwork and burial and often informed religious ceremony, suggesting that Andean wars and warfare symbolism played a key role in elite competition to attract and influence populations and in status rivalries among families and influential men. In the final centuries of the precolumbian sequence, the military conquest of subjects in the Chimú and Inca Empires relied on new techniques of coercive control, bureaucracy, and logistics to overcome the difficulties posed by Andean terrain.
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Authors Elizabeth Arkush
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.75
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.75
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