When the Huari ruled, they dealt with postMoche coastal peoples without much conquering them. Then around AD 1100 the Huari collapsed. We next find people harvesting guano... much further south, in the Chincha vale. AD 1250 is about when they start advertising their birdey wares on pots.
The link between the Chincha of their guano era, and their northern postMoche origins, now exists from genetics.
As to: why the migration. Uh. We have evidence for rather a lot of upheaval around that continent, from the 1200s (thirteenth century
) on.
Once having migrated, the Chincha jealously maintained their culture, some even being endogamous. The language of that coast when the Inca came was Coastal Quechua; "Chincha" itself means "ocelot" in that language. The homeland of "Quechua I" also lies north of Cuzco; which highlands today speak an archaic dialect called Huanca (no jokes plz).
I suspect the Huanca and the majority Chincha both descend from the Huari, who spoke Quechua. The bird-doo-doo people, as coastal... I doubt. Their ancestors had spoken something more Mochean-era in northern Peru, if not Mochic itself; further, I expect they maintained their nonQuechua language among the Chinca. This is difficult to tell because both the Inca and the Spaniards discouraged indigenous languages as weren't Quechua or Aymara.
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