ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses wide variety of storage units. It explains broader patterns of societal organization and culture. It explains the late Chimu and Inka Empires, and Salomon's ethnographic case. It focuses on the Casma Valley, which included coastal and highland areas. It proposes Huaca A storehouse settlement like Raqa'i in northern Mesopotamia. It describes risk in a storage system of the Inka Empire. The production of sumptuary goods for nobles at Teotihuacan seems to have been a major focus of the productive enterprise. Almost a millennium separates the Teotihuacan case described by Manzanilla from the Aztecs, and three millennia separate the Casma Valley state described by Pozorski and Pozorski from the Inka. The systems of the Chimu and Inka, evident in their network of central and regional storage systems, were very much centralized.
