IASCE Director Charles Stanish podcast interview on Chincha and Nasca Valley geoglyphs
IASCE Director Charles Stanish was the special guest of the popular History Fuzz podcast discussing Chincha and Nasca Valley geoglyphs. Dr Stanish We learn how emerging ruling classes conducted elaborate open-air theatrical productions within assemblies of mounds, platforms, and geoglyphs. After outlining the underlying archaeoastronomy, Charles explained how dominant classes engaged in competitive feasting, offering pilgrims a ritualized-political spectacle to garner widespread support. He also argued about Cuzco’s controversial ceque system of alignments and shrines, or huacas, demonstrating how his empirical approach to Inca alignments challenges the earlier works of structuralists.