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Figs.l5d-f). The strap handles and rounded base have larger paste inclusions than any other JT sherd (2-3 mm) and are coarse textured. They are probably from cooking ware.

(c) AL4 Summary:

The stone and pottery artefacts indicate that AL4 was an occupation site. It is possible that there was a Chanapata occupation, but ceramic associations are mainly post-Vari. Mo finds of Cusco Inca pottery were made on the hill but several were recorded within 40 m in canal cleaning debris beside a canal which passes below the site (Fig 4:10) and a miniature Inca style terrace group is located beside the same canal a few hundred metres to the east (Site AL3).

Site AL5, Huchuy Tambowilka.

AL5 comprises a small terraced hill and artefact concentration on a level area of the peak, located beside AL4 (Fig. 4:10, Plate 33).

(i) Terraces:

Sections of fieldstone retaining wall divide sloping areas, now cultivated, on the northern, southern and eastern sides of the hill. Many pieces have

collapsed leaving only breaks of slope. A retaining wall of the peak platform is partly intact.

(ii) Artefacts:

An inspection, after ploughing on the site, indicated that pottery was concentrated on the peak platform. It was less apparent due to a

tarwi

HT>

the eroded western side of the hill, probably exposed by passers by. This was collected and labelled

HTF.

HT produced only 10 sherds, one painted. It is a slightly irregular rim,

thus problematic for rim angle determination, but appears to be from a shallow open vessel of about 26 cm diameter, with grey-cored fabric (App.II Fig. 15h).

HTP produced a rim of an inflected open vessel (App.II Fig. 15g), of like

141), a flaring rim (App.II Fig. 14m) with exterior rim-thickening which is characteristic of Killke 'Shape C Medium Jars' [Dwyer 1971:98], and a body sherd with complex black painted designs (App.II Fig. 14o), all featuring a well-fired light orange paste. Two sherds with bright orange and red paste have

scraping/burnish bands on the exterior (App.II Figs. 14i,n), as did an unpainted stub base similar to one at AL4 (App.II Fig. 14k, cf. 14p).

(iii) AL5 Summary:

AL5 was probably a post-Vari settlement site. Like the adjacent Site AL4, it does not appear to have had a Cusco Inca pottery-using occupation.

Site AL19, Kuchiorqo.

AL19 is a scatter of pottery sherds on a hilltop and its eastern sloping fields, located at the end of a ridge of Mamako mountain, overlooking the confluence of the Colorado and Achaku rivers (Fig. 4:1). It is protected by steep slopes on all but the eastern approach.

(i) Pottery:

Only a few sherds were collected (KUP1-4 from the peak and KUS1-4 from the eastern slope). A KUP rim is from a narrow-necked (8 cm) vessel (App.II Fig. 14v); a body sherd is painted in a dark brown lattice design over a very smooth brown-orange slip (App.II Fig. 14t), a design found on AL28 sherds and common in

Killke

and one das a similar texture and paste to the painted sherd. A porous red clay lump with holes from straw content before firing, as described for AL43, was located on the eastern slope.

(ii) AL19 Summary:

AL19 appears to have been a small occupation site. Its closest pottery series associations are post-Vari but no Cusco Inca material is represented.

Site AM2, Qoriwairachina.

AM2 is a hill which rises 150 m above Markawasi flats, an area of extensive Inca terracing (Plate 34), and is protected on the opposite side by very steep descent of about 500 m to the Colorado River. Inca style walls also encircle the peak of the hill. A large number of mostly eroded sherds are concentrated around the peak terraces and in lesser densities immediately below them on the northern descent.

(i) Pottery:

A small collection of sherds C Q V , n=13> was made within the peak and 50 m below it on the northern side. Two sherds were painted. One of these was highly polished on both surfaces and decorated on the convex surface with dense Cusco Inca red paint, from a thick walled vessel of large body circumference. One other sherd in QV has a very smooth, polished (concave) surface, but is undecorated. The second painted sherd has a brittle brown fabric, decorated in a loose grid design with splashed dots on cream slip (App.II Fig. 14u>. It is

not Cusco Inca, and the use of splashed dot elements is only seen elsewhere in the valley at AL4 (App.II Figs. 15h,o).

(ii) AM2 Summary:

AX2 was probably a late prehistoric settlement site prior to the

construction of Inca terraces on the peak.

Site AL34, Waqay o q p a m p a B.

AL34 comprises terrace walls among breaks of slope and an associated artefact scatter over about 400 sq.m on a low hill, and a contiguous area of

about 4 ha containing standing stone walls and linear bunds of stony soil which