The Cities of the Ancient Andes Available to Purchase

This volume examines the ancient cities of the Andes in the context of the character of the civilisations that built them. In assessing ancient conurbations and deciding when one is dealing with a city rather than a town one of the criteria which can be applied is “a city is a city when the people who lived there considered it a city”. Although sometimes hard to apply, this is a far more useful criterion than judging it in terms of our modern cities which fall within a particular cultural and temporal tradition. The cities of the Andes appear to have...