Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo

by Jean-Pierre Protzen

It is a modern-day mystery how the Inca, who did not have iron tools or knowledge of the wheel, mined and transported stones and dressed and fitted them in remarkable structures. Jean-Pierre Protzen has spent much of the past decade investigating the quarrying and stonecutting techniques of the Inca, and problems of Inca construction practices. His work is based principally on observation, careful measurements of structures, and experiments using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195070690
• ISBN13: 9780195070699
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 11.3"