Beyond military conquest, the successful consolidation of Tawantinsuyu likely depended on the exercise of soft power and ideological cooptation. The widespread distribution of Inca pottery suggests it played a key role in the imperial agenda. Archaeological evidence from across the Empire indicates that provincial potters were mobilized to generate the distinctive vessels associated with the state, which typically differed significantly from their local repertoires. How did these potters produce the new forms demanded by the Inca? Was any practicing potter capable of adapting their skills? Would new communities of practice have emerged to meet the new morphological and stylistic requirements? We address these questions in a study of Inca and local pottery from southern Ecuador via a focus on the chaînes opératoires involved in production. We incorporate analyses of archaeological materials recovered from survey and excavation work in Olleros in the parish of San Miguel de Porotos in Cañar province, as well as observations from both ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological studies from this region and elsewhere. The study reveals that the Inca-style pottery found at the site was produced locally by expert Cañari potters who combined their usual techniques in a different way to achieve the requisite Inca vessel forms. These specialists were likely mitmaqkuna resettled in this region by the Inca due to the abundance of high quality clays in the region.

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厄瓜多尔对各省印加风格陶器生产的新见解


除了军事征服之外，Tawantinsuyu 的成功巩固可能还取决于软实力的行使和意识形态的拉拢。印加陶器的广泛分布表明它在帝国议程中发挥了关键作用。来自帝国各地的考古证据表明，外省陶工被动员起来制作与国家相关的独特器皿，这些器皿通常与当地的曲目有很大不同。这些陶工是如何制作出印加人要求的新形式？有没有练习陶艺的人能够适应他们的技能？新的实践社区是否会出现来满足新的形态和风格要求？我们在对厄瓜多尔南部印加和当地陶器的研究中解决了这些问题，重点关注参与生产的 chaînes opératoires。我们纳入了对卡尼亚尔省圣米格尔德波罗托斯教区奥勒罗斯 （Olleros） 调查和发掘工作中发现的考古材料的分析，以及该地区和其他地方的民族志和民族考古学研究的观察结果。研究表明，在该遗址发现的印加风格陶器是由专业的 Cañari 陶艺家在当地生产的，他们以不同的方式结合了他们通常的技术，以实现必要的印加器皿形式。这些专家很可能是印加人在该地区重新安置的，因为该地区拥有丰富的优质粘土。