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2015-07-15T18:45:36.000Z
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Video Title:
Inka Road Symposium 22 - Inka Expansion: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Southeastern Collasuyu
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This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire, with a fascinating look at the material, political, economic, and religious structures that integrated more than one hundred Native nations and millions of people in the powerful Andean Empire known as the Tawantinsuyu. In this segment, Roberto Bárcena, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina, speaks on "Inka Expansion: Archaeology and Ethnohistory in Southeastern Collasuyu." Roberto Bárcena has a doctorate in geography and history with a specialization in prehistoric studies. He was a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina and an associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Mendoza, Argentina. Between 2010 and 2014, he served as the director of the Institute of Humanities, Social and Environmental Sciences (INCIHUSA). Recognized as an honorary member of Argentina’s National Commission for Museums, Monuments, and Historical Sites, Bárcena is currently the director of the Archaeological and Ethnological Institute at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. The symposium was recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 25-26, 2015.
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36 min 47 sec
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