Inca Artifacts

You can call inca artifacts to practically any kind of element made by the hands of the incas; It is a quite huge variety of artifacts that we can talk about, so to make it simple, I will explain you just a few of them, witch I think that are the most relevant artifacts from all of them.

The archaeologist has not found any special artifact use as tool for construction, it has been found only lead weights, water levels, hammers, chisels, levers and so on, but nothing that could explain how they cut, polish, move and place with such perfection those huge stones; It is truly unbelievable, that with such simple tools, the incas were able to build such beautifully temples.

The inca artifacts for hunting and fishing were quite simple, the incas use boleadoras to hunt big animals, bows and arrows for smaller animals and birds; Some inca tribes in the jungle use blowguns to hunt monkeys and birds, they use fishing nets in rivers and in the ocean; For bigger fishes they use harpoons made of bones or sharp stones; The hunting and fishing was secondary in their economy, because the incas dedicated primary to the agriculture and raising domestic animals.

Some inca artifacts are still in use today, a good example will be the inca vertical loom, use to make all kinds of textiles; The incas got the colors for the textiles from plants, insects and flowers; Most Peruvian artisans are still using the same colors today, the Peruvian artisans use the inca vertical loom to make inca textiles only under request, because the quantity of material need it, plus the eight days of work need it to made only one inca textile, all this raise the price a lot.

The artifacts use in the inca daily life were made of wood, ceramic, textiles, stone and copper; For example the glasses call Keros and the spoons were only made in wood; Most of the plates and pots were made with ceramic; Bags, hats and shoes were made of textiles; Needles, construction tools, knives and ear rings were made of copper; The incas have two standard construction materials first it was blocks of polished carve stone and for standard homes they use mud bricks.

Definitely the inca art made of gold should be the best well known inca artifacts of all; The incas make practically everything with gold or with gold plaques attach to the object, like for example shoes, helmets, glasses, plates, idols, ear rings, nose rings, walls with thick plaques of gold attach to it, even they were capable to produce sewing threads of gold to make clothing for the inca king and so on; The fact is that the incas master the metallurgy beyond our imagination.

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