Beau is a PhD student in Archaeology in the department of Anthropology at UNM.
This research was made possible in part by funding from the Latin American & Iberian Institute and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant (FRG). For more information about the FRG, please visit the LAII website.
Introduction
With the support of a LAII Field Research Grant, in the summer of 2014 I traveled to Peru to conduct a preliminary archaeological assessment of an understudied region of the Andes. I have spent several years studying the Inca Empire, with a particular interest in the economic mechanisms that fueled its growth. In 2014 I carried out exploratory work designed to examine a vastly under-researched aspect of this topic; how the Empire acquired prestige goods from the intractable environmental and political landscape of the ‘Ceja de selva’, the term for the rugged cloud forests covering the eastern slopes of the Andes.
With the support of a LAII Field Research Grant, in the summer of 2014 I traveled to Peru to conduct a preliminary archaeological assessment of an understudied region of the Andes. I have spent several years studying the Inca Empire, with a particular interest in the economic mechanisms that fueled its growth. In 2014 I carried out exploratory work designed to examine a vastly under-researched aspect of this topic; how the Empire acquired prestige goods from the intractable environmental and political landscape of the ‘Ceja de selva’, the term for the rugged cloud forests covering the eastern slopes of the Andes.
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