ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book summarizes some important details of the political use of heads under the Inka and in the Spanish colony that take us back to some points made earlier here about the role of heads in the conformation of economic systems. The most prominent central Andean Early Horizon site is undoubtedly Chavn de Huntar, situated in an eastern valley off the Callejn de Huaylas in what is now central Peru. More systematic work on head taking has been done in the northern Andes, rather than in the southern-central Andes and central Andes that we deal with here. Throughout the archaeological sequence that the book examined here, although we can see some discrete shifts in the use and place of bodies and crania, there are also some surprisingly resonating themes that continue to resurface, whether in the northern, central, or south-central Andes.
