Using oxygen 18 isotope to problematize the presence of resettled laborers in the far provinces of the Inca empire.

ABSTRACT: Resettlement, as a major imperial policy in the Inca empire, appears to have been a widespread mechanism for labor mobilization and the dismantling of rebellions. While multiple ethnohistorical references exist regarding resettlement in the central Andes, the extent of this policy in the imperial provinces is still unknown, especially in cases of economic intensification that might have required more labor force. The δ18O isotope is a good proxy for human mobility when comparing the childhood isotopic signature in the teeth enamel and the local water signature at the place of death. If applied to the study of an archaeological sequence, we can observe the expansion or reduction of a population's displacement within a territory, if they received foreigners, and in general, how their social

SUBMITTER: Garrido F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7416952 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature