ANT 456 Pyramids and Politics: Exploring Peru's Historic Past
This course addresses a central question in archaeology: how, and when, did states first emerge? In the Andes, state-level societies emerged in the face of severe environmental restrictions and in a nonmarket economy, making the central Andes a particularly interesting comparative case study of state development. Through visits to archaeological sites, museums, and other cultural experiences in Peru, this course will take a comparative perspective on the emergence, organization, and collapse of some of the most important prehispanic states in the central Andes.