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