100% agreed, Richard! You’d enjoy our series, which (despite what the oddly smear-y article in the PAW insinuates) celebrates and prioritizes the histories of Indigenous peoples over the Europeans’ later interpretations of it. I hope you watch. The Spanish in Peru were particularly ignorant of the long histories and accomplishments of the peoples living there before the Inca. They just attributed everything they encountered to the “Inca” and left it at that. Even places that we now know are older (like Tiwanaku). Sadly many of those colonial assumptions have trickled down into modern archaeological assumptions.
100% agreed, Richard! You’d enjoy our series, which (despite what the oddly smear-y article in the PAW insinuates) celebrates and prioritizes the histories of Indigenous peoples over the Europeans’ later interpretations of it. I hope you watch. The Spanish in Peru were particularly ignorant of the long histories and accomplishments of the peoples living there before the Inca. They just attributed everything they encountered to the “Inca” and left it at that. Even places that we now know are older (like Tiwanaku). Sadly many of those colonial assumptions have trickled down into modern archaeological assumptions.