Abstract

The Department of Tacna, conforming of the South Central Andean Area, evidences a rather early cultural continuity that goes back to 10.000 years of antiquity. Its geographical implications (marine littoral: hydrobiological resources, hills, wetlands and wet creeks, fertile coastal valleys, Andean pre-Andean valleys, cold geosystems of Cordillera and Puma: lagoons, pastures and bofedales) and the diversification of resources, conditioned the emergence of societies established in different ecological levels, harmoniously transforming nature for the sake of its presence and impact in the region.

Keywords

Inca architecture, hunter-gatherers, altiplano, occupation, economy, ceramics, textiles, Moqi