A multidisciplinary review of the Inka imperial resettlement policy and implications for future investigations

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dc.contributor.authorDavidson, R.
dc.contributor.authorFehren-Schmitz, L.
dc.contributor.authorLlamas, B.
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe rulers of the Inka empire conquered approximately 2 million km² of the South American Andes in just under 100 years from 1438-1533 CE. Inside the empire, the elite conducted a systematic resettlement of the many Indigenous peoples in the Andes that had been rapidly colonised. The nature of this resettlement phenomenon is recorded within the Spanish colonial ethnohistorical record. Here we have broadly characterised the resettlement policy, despite the often incomplete and conflicting details in the descriptions. We then review research from multiple disciplines that investigate the empirical reality of the Inka resettlement policy, including stable isotope analysis, intentional cranial deformation morphology, ceramic artefact chemical analyses and genetics. Further, we discuss the benefits and limitations of each discipline for investigating the resettlement policy and emphasise their collective value in an interdisciplinary characterisation of the resettlement policy.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityRoberta Davidson, Lars Fehren-Schmitz and Bastien Llamas
dc.identifier.citationGenes, 2021; 12(2):215-215
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/genes12020215
dc.identifier.issn2073-4425
dc.identifier.issn2073-4425
dc.identifier.orcidDavidson, R. [0000-0002-9909-2018]
dc.identifier.orcidLlamas, B. [0000-0002-5550-9176]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/129960
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT170100448
dc.rights© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/genes12020215
dc.subjectInka
dc.subjectethnohistory
dc.subjectinterdisciplinary
dc.subjectisotopes
dc.subjectpaleogenetics
dc.subjectresettlement
dc.titleA multidisciplinary review of the Inka imperial resettlement policy and implications for future investigations
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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