Wari, predecessors of the Inca, used restraint to reshape human landscape
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 11:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The Wari, a complex civilization that preceded the Inca empire in pre-Columbia America, didn't rule solely by pillage, plunder and iron-fisted bureaucracy, a Dartmouth study finds. Instead, they started out by creating loosely administered colonies to expand trade, provide land for settlers and tap natural resources across much of the central Andes.