ON THE BEGINNING OF THE LATE HORIZON

Abstract

An argument is proposed for an earlier temporal placement of the beginning of the Late Horizon than the one made by John H. Rowe in 1945. Rowe followed Cabello Valboa (1586), who placed this event late in the rule of Thupa Inca Yupanqui and after the conquests of both Quito and Chile. The reading offered here is anchored instead in the Relación de Chincha (1558), collected from local sources in the Chinch a valley. The south coast, including Ica, appears to have been annexed at the time of the Inca Pachacut’s campaign in Soras. Thus, the event that marks the beginning of the Late Horizon can be placed fully a generation earlier than the Rowe placement, and near the beginning of Inca expansion outside of the Cuzco region.

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