Political aspects of imperial architecture are usually evaluated in terms of the symbolism of specific buildings as opposed to overall site planning and layout. This reflects a shortcoming in our understanding of imperial tactics, as provincial site layouts were likely politically calculated. Here we present an architectural study of the Inka provincial capital of Turi, a well-preserved local population center in northern Chile co-opted for Inka imperial administration of the Atacama Desert area. We reevaluate layout planning at the site using concepts of building coordination and inter-site standardization to identify potentially planned features, and add to this a chronological study of surface architecture based upon wall-abutments and radiocarbon dates associated with a sample of building events. Results indicate significant Inka-era remodeling took the pre-existing site’s layout in a more coordinated and monumental direction, serving to increase site symmetry, reference political ideas through inter-site standardization, and focus greater attention upon Inka political buildings. Political buildings themselves grew more formalized and monumental over the course of the imperial occupation, culminating in the construction of a large kallanka state building near the end of the 15th century. Overall, we argue that layout remodeling was used to form increasingly strong architectural pronouncements of state legitimacy over time, and that moving past a ‘planned’ versus ‘unplanned’ conceptual binary will aid in gleaning more information from imperial sites in future research.

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智利北部图里印加行政中心的省级遗址规划政治和建筑演变


帝国建筑的政治方面通常根据特定建筑的象征意义来评估，而不是根据总体场地规划和布局来评估。这反映了我们对帝国战术理解的缺陷，因为省级遗址布局很可能是经过政治计算的。在这里，我们展示了对印加省首府图里的建筑研究，图里是智利北部保存完好的当地人口中心，被选为印加帝国对阿塔卡马沙漠地区的行政管理机构。我们使用建筑协调和场地间标准化的概念重新评估场地的布局规划，以确定潜在的规划特征，并根据与建筑事件样本相关的墙基台和放射性碳日期，添加对表面建筑的时间顺序研究。结果表明，印加时代的重大改造使现有遗址的布局朝着更加协调和具有纪念意义的方向发展，有助于增加遗址的对称性，通过遗址间的标准化参考政治思想，并更加关注印加政治建筑。在帝国占领期间，政治建筑本身变得更加正式和具有纪念意义，最终在 15 世纪末建造了一座大型卡兰卡国家建筑。总的来说，我们认为，随着时间的推移，布局重塑被用来形成越来越强大的国家合法性的建筑声明，并且超越“计划”与“计划外”概念二元将有助于在未来的研究中从帝国遗址收集更多信息。