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LIMA TORREZ, María del Pilar. INKAS AND YAMPARAS... THE HEGEMONY OF POWER IN NORTHERN CHUQUISACA: THE CASE OF QUILA QUILA. Textos Antropológicos [online]. 2005, vol.15, n.2, pp. 111-124. ISSN 1025-3181.

The Inka Empire constitutes the maximum expression ofpolitical power in the Andes before the arrivaloftheSpanish; itsimpactandadvanceswereonlyhaltedbyanotherforce, theSpanishColony. Through ethnohistory - above all - we know that the empire expanded through the eastern Andes lead by Tupac Yupanqui after 1470. Also, theses sources havepresented two theoretical models of how the Inka achievedcontrol over thepopulations: directandindirect control. However, despite this scheme, recent archaeological information brings to light new strategies used by the Inka in order to obtainpolitical and administrative control. This article attempts to show a type ofstrategy that the Inka used in the valleys of Northern Chuquisaca. To do so, archaeological data are presented from Quila Quila, a Yampara administrative settlement, at the end ofthe 16^th century. Without a doubt, the inclusion ofthe new information about the expansion ofthis empire andits relationship with the subjugate populations demonstrates the complexity of the Inka political structure, in addition to permitting the formulation ofnew models for the study of this prehispanic society