Paper presented at the 21th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohisotry, University of Pittsburgh, PA.  November 2002


Title: 'y el inga Guayna Capac derribado': Difficult Encounters in Pambamarca, Ecuador

 

Authors:

Chad Gifford, Columbia University <chg7@columbia.edu>

Samuel Connell, UCLA <sammyc@ucla.edu>

Ana Lucia Gonzalez, UCLA <anilugonza@hotmail.com>

Maureen Carpenter <palenquemo@yahoo.com>

 

Abstract:

Understanding the role that local history and culture play within broader political and economic structures is central to any investigation of culture contact under imperial expansion. This paper introduces research that focuses on the dynamic social issues that once swirled around encounters with the Inka Empire in the Pambamarca region of the northern sierra of Ecuador. According to the Spanish chroniclers Sarmiento, Cabello and Cobo (among others), the Cayambe society that lived in this area famously resisted Inka military advances for as many as 17 years. Archaeologically, the remains of this standoff include as many as 20 Cayambe and Inka fortresses concentrated in the hills east of the Quito Basin.  In this paper we review our investigations to date that have focused on Quitoloma and Pucará Guachalá, two of the Pambamarca fortresses.

 

Prelude

 

((SLIDE: Wayna Qhapaq)) The moment described in the title of our paper refers to an exceptional event in Andean history when the Inka king Wayna Qhapaq was, quite literally, knocked down.  ((SLIDE: Wayna Qhapaq on litter)) The circumstances behind this potentially embarrassing moment for Wayna Qhapaq are well-known among Inka scholars and concern the empire's attempts to conquer a confederation of resilient societies in the northern reaches of Ecuador. 

 

((SLIDE: Wayna Qhapaq painting))  Because of their enchantment with Ecuador, or so the story goes, Inka king Thupa Inka Yupanqui and his son, Wayna Qhapaq, established in Quito a second great city to complement the capital Cuzco.  As they looked out from Quito towards the verdant lands belonging to groups like the Caranquis, the Cayambes and the Otavalos in the north, the imperial armies were expecting little resistance to their forward advances.  ((SLIDE: tenth captain))  But as they set out and crossed the Guayllabamba River, the Inkas encountered a collection of fiercely resistant societies that succeeding in holding off the Inkas for over 15 years.  It was during this standoff, then, that Wayna Qhapaq nearly met his maker.

 

The particular quote we use here comes from Sarmiento (1960:262), but it is by no means unique, as details about this unfortunate event appear in a number of other chronicles.  According to Cabello de Valboa (1951:370), for instance, Wayna Qhapaq fell during battle with a group called the Caranquis, but was quickly saved by three of his captains.  In Cobo's account of the same battle (1979:157), 'the king fell to the ground' only to be saved from certain death in the knick of time. 

 

Introduction

 

((SLIDE: Quitoloma))  In this paper we present preliminary data collected in Pambamarca, Ecuador, at the likely scene of this ancient crime.  Beyond a cursory glimpse of the chronicles provided below, for the moment we report on our archaeological findings and leave the results of our ethnohistorical analyses for another day.  Obviously, the distribution and nature of archaeological sites and material culture can help determine the history of Inka domination, but they can detail to a great extent the history of resistance as well.  On the one hand, the Inka fortresses we describe in this paper obviously speak of a heavily militarized and even violent approach to domination in the Pambamarca area of Ecuador.  But these same fortresses, as well as a handful of indigenous fortresses present in the same area, also speak of strong-willed and well-organized indigenous societies determined to preserve their independence.

 

As a preview, we suggest here that although the majority of Pambamarca fortresses are Inka in origin, a few may have been constructed by indigenous societies.  The evidence at least suggests that the area was a dynamic border zone wherein independent communities posed distinct challenges to the Inkas at every turn.  As a result of conditions like those found at Pambamarca, Inka interactions with the northern Ecuadorian groups unfolded according to a patchwork logic that involved the interests of all the parties that were involved.  As such, we argue more generally that it is essential to consider the rich histories of indigenous societies as they attempt to contend with the threat of colonization.  This, in turn, supports the commonly-held notion that colonialism is not reducible to a one-sided, imperial narrative that transcends space and time.  In other words, Inka expansion and incorporation of Andean societies into the empire are not merely explicable in terms of the actions of Inka leaders.  Instead, the self-determination of the Andean people helped shape encounters with the Inkas, which in turn shaped the strategies, the possibilities, and even the outcome of Inka expansion.

 

Our interpretations of colonialism that highlight expressions of local autonomy and self-determination in this corner of the Inka realm find parallels in historical and social anthropological studies of colonial encounters that suggest that locally-motivated events and intentions have an influence on the success or failure of the colonial enterprise (Adas 1992, Bhadha 1994, Cooper and Stoler 1997, Stoler 1989, Tiffin and Lawson 1994).  Studies from social anthropology in particular contend that imperialism needs to be viewed from the point-of-view of the histories of local societies, and not just from the bird's eye-view of the colonizer (Haynes and Prakash 1991, Irschick 1994, Miller 1995, Thomas 1997, Wolf 1982).  As we draw from this multidisciplinary approach we maintain an appreciation for the details particular to life in prehispanic Ecuador.  Andean studies, after all, consistently remind us that the interplay between Inka strategies of colonization and the initiatives of subject groups created diverse encounters across the Andes (Morris 1998, Stanish 1997, Williams and D'Altroy 1998).  This research, then, ultimately strengthens our understanding of ancient culture contact by tracing the forces of indigenous self-determination, compliance, resistance, accommodation, and cooperation.

 

Needless-to-say, we are very fortunate to be working in Pambamarca on behalf of the Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador and hope to be there for many years.  One of the greater goals of our project is to integrate with a grassroots effort currently underway in the study area to have Pambamarca declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  At the moment we are outsiders in this process, but are very excited to support our Ecuadorian hosts wherever and whenever possible. 

 

As you will see, the area is incredibly rich in archaeological and historical resources and may rightly deserve this attention.  Beyond the well-known Pambamarca fortresses that are the main topic of our paper today, these resources include the remains of extensive regional settlement and evidence for a variety of intensive forms of agriculture in the surrounding valleys and plains.  In terms of chronology, although our discussion today focuses on the Inka-period encounters that took place in Pambamarca during the early part of the 16th century, in years to come we will also be investigating the hundreds if not thousands of years of the area's pre-Inka occupation.

 

To this end, our work is and will be built on the research of a number of excellent investigators that have passed through Pambamarca, including the German archaeologist Udo Oberem (Oberem 1980, 1986, Oberem et al. 1969) and the Ecuadorian archaeologist Antonio Fresco (Fresco et al. 1990).  We also rely to great extent on the studies of Plaza Schuler (1976, 1977), who created most of the maps and site plans that you will see today. 

 

Location and Setting

 

((SLIDE: Ecuador's basins))  To set the stage, we turn now to the northern Ecuadorian highlands.  Pambamarca lies in the Cantón de Cayambe of the Pichincha Province.  ((SLIDE: Quito basin))  This modern canton straddles the equator and lies in the shadows of the snow-covered Mt. Cayambe volcano.  Given the region's steep terrain, it is not surprising that Cayambe occupies in quite close quarters a number of distinct ecological bands defined by altitude.  This micro-vertical archipelago extends from 2,400 meters above sea level at the Pisque and Guayllabamba river valleys to nearly 5,800 meters at Mt. Cayambe; it includes (1) a subtropical zone in the lower river valleys where fruit and sugar cane are produced today, (2) higher and less humid drainages that are used today for dairy and flower production, (3) a drier upland zone where corn, potatoes, beans, and cereal crops (including quinoa, wheat and barley) flourish, and (4) the páramo zone, which is the cold, windy tundra-like highland area above 3,500 meters.  ((SLIDE: the páramo))  While the páramo is used sporadically today for the pasture of livestock like cattle, sheep and pigs, cultivation in this inhospitable landscape would have been difficult in the past.

 

((SLIDE: horizon))  Near the geographical center of Cayambe rises Pambamarca.  This cluster of mountain peaks and ridges, which juts out into the Quito Basin almost like an island, commands a panoramic view in nearly all directions.  Looking towards the southwest, Quito itself can be seen at the opposite side of the basin on the eastern slopes of Pichincha.  During the time period in question much of this area to the west and south of Pambamarca would have been occupied and controlled by the Inkas (Bray 1991, 1992).  ((SLIDE: Mt. Cayambe))  Looking in the opposite direction, that is towards the northeast, the Pambamarca fortresses take in the fertile lands of Cayambe as well as the volcano of the same name.  This area to the east and north of Pambamarca, of course, was occupied by this confederation of societies that offered such stiff resistance to the Inkas as they marched north from Quito.

 

General Description of the Fortresses

 

((SLIDE: Plaza Schuler))  There are as many as 40 walled installations (or fortresses, or pucaras as per the Quichua) in the Pambamarca area.  While Plaza Schuler carefully investigated 17 of these fortresses, Carlos Perez, a Cayambe native and historian, has recorded many more in the immediate area.  ((SLIDE: Perez))  This dense concentration of fortresses stretches roughly 7 kilometers across, covering most of the mountain peaks in Pambamarca.  The highest fortress rests above 4,000 meters asl and the lowest at roughly 3,400 meters.  For the most part the fortresses throughout Pambamarca share similar details in their construction: they usually sit on peaks, high ridges or promontories, they are guarded by concentric walls supporting higher and higher terrace levels, and the walls are often surrounded by ditches (or moats) made from the excavation of soil for the walls.  From fortress to fortress these walls, which are supported by fill from the inside, are made up of rough stone blocks that have been quarried from nearby sources.  Multiple openings in the walls at some fortresses provide elaborate zigzag routes of access through the fortresses.

 

Ethnohistory

 

To appreciate in any detail the Inka-period history of this incredible concentration of forts, it helps to understand that the name 'Pambamarca' seems to have appeared in historical times, and that the area's original name was probably 'Quinchicaxa'.  This older name exists in a number of early colonial documents, including one from 1569 that has been studied by Rowe (1985), but it also appears in the writings of Cabello Valboa, Sarmiento and Murúa.  This name-- Quinchicaxa-- probably refers to the Inka town of El Quinche, which lies at the foot of Pambamarca to the west along the eastern edge of the Quito basin. 

 

A common version of the history of Pambamarca simply contends that the fortresses were placed by the Inkas above and around El Chinche to serve as a defense against attack from the societies living to the north and east.  For instance, in 1583 Nasacota Puento, a priest from the nearby city of Cayambe, claimed that the Inkas built the Pambamarca fortresses during an eight- or nine-year war against indigenous groups from the area.  As an interesting aside, Puento describes some of the fortresses as being separated by the length of the shot of an harquebus.  Cabello de Valboa (1951:320) provides some color to this account, saying that the Quinchicaxa fortresses were built by Cañari Indians from the south as punishment for their rebellious behavior.  He also states that Quinchicaxa was manned by a strong garrison of mitmaqkuna from many nations and that the locals were ordered to keep it supplied.

 

But as you might anticipate, while some documents provide hints about the origins and nature of the Pambamarca fortresses, a good many of them are contradictory.  Returning to Cobo (1979:157), for instance, the fortresses in this area are said to belong originally to the Cayambes, who withdrew to them over and over instead of facing the Inkas on the open battlefield.  In one gripping account, after bravely resisting one tremendous Inka assault, the Cayambes went so far as to press their own attack when they sensed the Inka soldiers were low in number.  It is at this point, then, that we can turn for some help to the testimony of these events as provide by the archaeology of the Pambamarca region.

 

Spatial Arrangement of the Pambamarca Forts

 

Before turning to the fortresses in any specific details, we begin with a brief look at their overall arrangement.  This is an important question and, intuitively, you might rightly suspect that their placement and arrangement reflect mostly military concerns.  For instance, the fortresses consistently sit on high promontories in the mountains and are consistently connected by open lines-of-site.  Our Ecuadorian colleague Cristobol Cobo has urged us to also consider possible cosmological placements and orientations, which we are currently experimenting with using various GIS analyses (see also Guaña 1993).

 

((SLIDE: 3 rings))  As Hyslop notes in his 1990 book, the fortresses form roughly two rings or zones around the central fortress on Cerro Pambamarca (site Pi-0014).  The inner zone consists of simple, two-walled fortresses that may have served as lookouts and strong points at strategic nodes in the mountains.  The fortresses of the outer ring, which consistently contain interior structures, platforms (perhaps usnus) and even great halls (perhaps kallankas), would have housed people (and troops) and served as the focal point for ceremonies, rituals and administration.  ((SLIDE: two forts))  Site Pi-0023 is a classic example of an outer-ring fortress, and site Pi-0011 is a classic example of an inner-ring fortress. 

 

In addition to this basic concentric-ring spatial model, at this early point in our research we also believe that the fortresses conform spatially to a hub-and-spoke model.  That is, the central Cerro Pambamarca unit that lies on one of the area's highest peaks served as a hub for the other fortresses.  Radiating out from this point are three lines (or spokes) of fortresses descending along the ridges to successively lower peaks: to the south run sites Pi-0013, Pi-0012, Pi-0011 and Pi-0010; to the northwest run sites Pi-0015, Pi-0018, Pi-0020, Pi-0021 and Pi-0022; and to the northeast run sites Pi-0016, Pi-0017 and Pi-0023. 

 

Part of the solution to understanding Pambamarca's spatial logic lies in making sense out of the distances between the fortresses themselves.  While some of the units lie in the remote corners of the Pambamarca mountains, others lie within several hundred meters of each other.  A few of these close-in fortresses are actually connected by trenches, a feature which Hyslop (1990:168) finds to be quite noteworthy.  In fact, based on this tight, interconnected arrangement, Hyslop (1990:165) considers the Pambamarca fortresses to be part of a single Inka complex; he even ventures that it was perhaps the largest such complex in all of Tawantinsuyu.  Hyslop's observations bring up the sticky question of affiliation, which we turn to in a minute.

 

((SLIDE: Quitoloma))  The other simple but crucial variable to consider in studying Pambamarca's spatial logic is the chronology of the construction of the fortresses.  That is, were these individual sites even meant to work together as a single unit?  Or, where the fortresses built at different times by different people?  While dating the fortresses should be easy enough, as Hyslop found out in person (1990:168), even the most basic research in Pambamarca is complicated by the high, exposed terrain and the brutal weather (including wind, rain and sleet).  These conditions also make for poorly preserved sites, and walls that once stood 4 or 5 meters tall have slumped, leaving overgrown, grassy slopes.  So, while our research plan for next season includes a site-by-site look at the chronological indicators of each of the fortresses at Pambamarca, for the moment we base our speculations about chronology and cultural affiliation on research we have conducted at two of the lower-elevation fortresses and on secondary sources like those provided by Plaza Schuler (1976, 1977).

 

Cultural Affiliation of the Pambamarca Forts

 

((SLIDE: seventh captain))  The challenge of pinning down the Pambamarca chronology leads directly to the equally simple question of the cultural affiliation of the fortress builders.  As it turns out, this remains a point of contention for Ecuadorianists and for many of the citizens of Cayambe, which makes it a direct extension of the ambiguity expressed in the historical documents. 

 

On the one hand, there is a strong oral tradition in the area that holds that these structures were garrisons which the ancestors of the modern Cayambe people built to protect themselves from the Inkas who invaded from the south.  As such, a number of patriotic Ecuadorian scholars have claimed outright that the fortresses were built by local groups as part of their 17-year successful resistance of the Inkas.  On the other hand, there have been a number of non-Cayambe scholars from Quito and beyond who believe these fortifications were built by the Inkas to defend Quito from assaults by the Cayambis and Caranquis, and to launch the reconquest of these rebellious groups.  These include the Spaniard Antonio Fresco, the Americans John Hyslop and David Brown and the German Udo Oberem. 

 

((SLIDE: 5 models))  Stepping back for a moment, it helps to think about this question somewhat theoretically.  If in fact these fortresses date to the beginning of the Inka period in Pambamarca, the black and white affiliation scenarios as we have just described them are obvious: either (1) the Inkas built these fortresses to conquer and rule over indigenous groups; or (2) indigenous groups built the Pambamarca fortresses for defense against the Inka.  Logically, however, there are a handful of in-between, or gray scenarios that we need to consider, (3) that some fortresses are Inka, and some are indigenous.  This would mean that once upon a time Pambamarca was a heavily militarized frontier. Alternatively, (4) the indigenous groups built these fortresses, but did so by imitating Inka forms (or vice versus).  Or finally, (5) some or all the fortresses were partially built by one group and finished by the other group as occupancy and ownership changed over time.  This would mean that the border zone shifted during the course of the standoff.

 

Interestingly, the historical documents allow for one of these middling scenarios.  Specifically, (as we have seen) at one point after a particular gruesome battle in the area, Wayna Qhapaq withdrew his forces from Pambamarca in order to reconnoiter, which would have allowed the Caranquis to easily capture and occupy any of the Inka fortresses left behind.

 

((SLIDE: 2 views))  It is also possible to approach the problem vis-à-vis an analysis of the way that fortresses are actually aligned relatively to a potential enemy attack.  As we have emphasized, in terms of surveillance, the whole region offers good views (if you were a Cayambe) of the Inka territories towards Quito, as well as good views (if you were an Inka) of the Cayambe settlements to the northeast.  ((SLIDE: two forts))  In terms of specific fortresses and their orientation, it appears that we have a mixture of concerns.  For instance, Quitoloma (site Pi-0010) was seemingly designed to defend attacks from the northeast.  Others, like Pucará Guachalá (site Pi-0025) seem more concerned with threats from the southwest (the steepest slope guarding this site falls off to the southwest of the site).  In other words, the black-and-white (or either/or) scenarios are not sustained in terms of the fortresses' alignments and orientations.  Instead, a preliminary directionality analysis seems to support one of the middling proposition, for example perhaps the third one, which suggests that some fortresses belonged to the Inkas while others belonged to the Cayambes.

 

((SLIDE: Rumicucho))  The Pambamarca fortifications are not the only military sites in the northern Sierras, so is also helpful to look at the affiliation problem comparatively, that is by looking at fortresses from beyond the Pambamarca region.  A number of our colleagues, including Tamara Bray, David Brown and Ronald Lippi, have been looking at the Ecuadorian fortress phenomenon for years.  Brown (2002) makes the case that as many as a hundred of these fortresses up and down the intermontane Andean Basins, throughout the Western and Eastern Cordilleras, and in the semi-tropical foothills are Inka in origin.  Brown is currently working on a typology for these Inka fortresses, which come in a surprising array of shapes and sizes.  Two classic examples of Inka fortresses in Ecuador include the well-known Rumicucho fortress near Quito studied by Eduardo Almeida (1984, 1999) and the fortress studied by Lippi (1998) at Palmitopamba on the lower-elevation western slopes of Pichincha.  When compared with a number of the fortresses in Pambamarca, we can begin to see some very basic similarities, including straighter walls and the presence of internal stone structures.

 

((SLIDE: Pi-0019))  So while many of the documented Inka fortresses found near and to the south of Quito are evocative of the those in our study area, there are some formal and structural aspects of the Pambamarca fortresses that seem to lie outside the Inka pattern.  These include the presence of bricks of cangagua (hardened volcanic ash) as a building material at some forts (i.e., not stone), and the presence of the internal radial walls connecting the concentric rings.  We are also not sure what to make of the fact that there are no internal structures in some of the larger, outer rings fortresses, except to point our that we know very little about pre-Inka, indigenous domestic architecture because much of it was built from perishable materials.  ((SLIDE: Plaza Schuler))  As it turns out, these structural traits are actually more common in the fortresses that have been documented to the north of the study area in the regions that remained largely independent from the Inkas.  In the 1970s the Instituto Otavaleño de Antropología organized a survey of scores of such fortresses throughout northern Ecuador and concluded that the indigenous societies of the area built and utilized many of these pucaras as defense against the Inkas (Plaza Schuller 1976). 

 

((SLIDE: Pinguilmi))  Returning, then, to our own study, in this our first year of fieldwork we initiated investigations at two fortresses on opposite edges of the Pambamarca mountains.  In the northeastern corner facing the Cayambe territory we mapped and conducted surface collections at the large fortress of Pucará Guachalá (also Pinguilmi).  While our understanding of this site is still very preliminary, we are reasonably confident that both the ceramic and architecture data suggest that this fortress was indigenous in origin and dates to the Inka period.  ((SLIDE: Quitoloma))  Our second focus of study this year was the site of Quitoloma, which is located on the southwestern edge of Pambamarca overlooking El Quinche and the Quito basin.  Our work there involved an extensive mapping program as well as excavations.  Together with data from the site collected by Oberem and Fresco, we are quite certain that Qutioloma was constructed and occupied by the Inkas.  ((SLIDE: Quitoloma))  You will recognize, for instance, the rectangular usnu and the cleared plaza space in front of the long kallanka.  ((SLIDE: Quitoloma))

 

Because these fortresses are located on opposite edges of the Pambamarca zone, and because each fortress is proximately located near its likely home base, we feel secure enough at this point to suggest that we are looking at material evidence of that fateful standoff in Pambamarca between Inka and Cayambe forces.  Given the possibility that this was a militarized zone, it is also certainly possible that the remaining collection of Pambamarca fortresses were occupied, abandoned and reoccupied by both sides of the conflict during the ebb and flow of 17 years of battle.  Evidence one way or another for this type of complicated interaction will be gathered in the coming years, which is a point that brings us to our closing thoughts as they relate to the greater field of Inka studies and to comparative colonialism and imperialism.

 

Closing Thoughts

 

((SLIDE: blank))  In this paper we have focused on evidence for only the most obvious forms of domination and resistance in Ecuador, namely the fortresses of Pambamarca.  While Inka history includes countless instances of brutal repression and violent rebellion, domination and resistance were typically expressed in much more subtle ways.  This is a persistent theme found in the literature on colonialism, which contends that the diversity of indigenous responses to colonial intrusion range from revolt, to resistance, to ambivalence, to accommodation (e.g., Deagan 1983, Fitzhugh 1985, Rogers and Wilson 1993, Taylor and Pease G.Y. 1994).  Of course, any inclination to recognize diversity in the actions and reactions of the colonized echoes a larger trend in anthropology, which stresses the fact that people tend to maintain their identities, even in the face of incredible adversity, and that outsiders are rarely permitted to interpret and control the details of people's everyday lives (Adas 1992, Guha 1982, Haynes and Prakash 1991, O'Hanlon 1988, Scott 1985, 1990). 

 

In this approach to Inka imperialism, the principal task becomes a matter of conceptualizing imperial encounters in ways other than as unilateral exercise of hegemony.  Most importantly, imperial expansion and incorporation as well as the colonial administration of indigenous societies are negotiated between various parties with divergent interests.  Sometimes these interests are clearly imposed violently from the outside by an imperial interest, but they are also constructed from the inside by indigenous resistance, accommodation, compliance, and cooperation-- in short, by the self-determination of the subjects themselves. 

 

I leave you with this odd coincidence.

            ((SLIDE: Quitoloma)) 

            ((SLIDE: Quitoloma, backwards))

            ((SLIDE: Quitoloma and Cuzco)) 

 

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