The Inca Legacy A Testament to Scientific and Technological Mastery

This is what had brought me on the precipitous journey through the Peruvian highlands north of Lima, to the village of Huamantanga, with ... Even though the Inca lacked writing systems, like what the Aztec and Maya used, historical documents recorded many of their workings and culture ... This work has revolutionized our view of the Inca empire and has provided a comparative database for understanding the nature of imperial expansion in ... Freeze-Drying Food. As far as recorded history goes, the Incas were the first people to develop freeze-drying techniques. · Brain Surgery · A ... Inca Science and Technology "Watch, Read & Answer" Classroom Assignment (PDF) ; Grade Levels. 5th - 10th, Homeschool ; Subjects. Geography, Social Studies, World ... A study published in Science Advances used ancient DNA to find out where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from in the lost Inca Empire. The Inca Empire did have its own spoken language called Quechua. This ... The ancient Inca writing tool of the quipu was an important technology that ... New radiocarbon dates indicate that Inca metallurgical activities in Copiapó valley co-opted a previous local site and technology. However, the Incas did not ... Among the many applied techniques, the impressive hydraulic engineering works stand out, including aqueducts, fountains, drainage and expansive ... They invented many wind and percussion instruments. Drums and flutes were very popular. The panpipe was the most popular. A panpipe is a group of single pipes ...