ANP 363 - Honors Podcast - They Mysteries of Machu Picchu with Stephen Hostetler
From MSU History Department LEADR on April 23rd, 2019
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From MSU History Department LEADR on April 23rd, 2019
Stephen Hostetler created this podcast as an honors project in Spring 2019 for Anthropology 363 - Rise of Civilization. He discusses the mythos surrounding the world-famous Incan site of Machu Picchu, how it has been interpreted in the past, and how it is being reinterpreted with modern research.
Citations:
Burger, Richard L., and Salazar-Burger, Lucy
1993 Machu Picchu Rediscovered: The Royal Estate In The Cloud Forest. Discovery 24(2):1-12
Magli, Giulio
2010 At the Other End of the Sun’s Path: A New Interpretation of Machu Picchu. Nexus Network Journal 12:321-341.
Reinhard, Johan, and Ceruti, Constanza
2005 Sacred Mountains, Ceremonial Sites, and Human Sacrifice Among the Inca. Archaeoastronomy 19:1-43.
Shullenberger, Geoffrey
2008
That obscure object of desire: Machu Picchu as myth and commodity. Journal
of Latin American Cultural Studies 17:317-333
(media sources)
History - https://css.history.com/topics/machu-picchu
National Geographic - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/machu-picchu-mystery/
Sacred Sites - https://sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html