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Vargas Llosa, Mario. Making Waves. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Vega, Garcilaso de la. Royal Commentaries of the Incas. Translated by Harold V. Livermore. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2006.

Von Hagen, Victor. Highway of the Sun. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1955.

Wilson, Jason. The Andes: A Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Wright, Kenneth and Alfredo Valencia Zegarra. Machu Picchu: A Civil Engineering Marvel. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000.

Wright, Ruth and Alfredo Valencia Zegarra. The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour. Boulder: Johnson Books, 2004.

Ziegler, Gary and J. McKim Malville. “Machu Picchu, Inca Pachacuti’s Sacred City: A multiple ritual, ceremonial and administrative center.” Self-published, 2006.

Index

Abancay, Peru

Abril, Emilio

Abril, Roxana

Across South America (Bingham)

Adams, Alex

Adams, Aurita

Adams, Lucas

Adams, Magnus

Adventure

Age of Discovery

agriculture

Bingham on

and celestial orientation of Inca sites

and climate theories

and the hacienda system

and land reforms

and Machu Picchu

and terrace structures

Aguas Calientes

Ales Hrdlicka

Almaro, Diego de

alpacas

altitude sickness

Alvistur, Tomás

Amazonas Explorer

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

The American Mercury

American Museum of Natural History

Amundsen, Roald

Andean spectacled bears

Andenes (terraces)

Angkor Wat

Angrand, Léonce

animal sacrifice

anthropology

Antis

Antisuyo

Antisuyo (Savoy)

Aobama River

Aobama Valley

apachetas

Apurimac River

apus

at Choquequirao

at Choquetacarpo Pass

and the Ice Maiden

and the Inca Trail

and location of Inca sites

at Machu Picchu

and Machu Picchu theories

most revered peaks

at Phuyupatamarca

and religious syncretism

at Vitcos

archaeoastronomy

archaeology

Arequipa

Arteaga, Melchior

and Bingham

and Giesecke

guiding to Machu Picchu

and Lost City of the Incas

Atahualpa

Ausangate

Ayacucho

Aymaras

Aztec Empire

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de

Bandelier, Adolph

Bell, Alexander Graham

Berns, Augusto

Besley, J. Campbell

Betanzos, Juan de

Billinghurst, Guillermo

Bingham, Alfred

Bingham, Alfreda

childbirth

correspondence to

family fortune

father’s death

marriage

Bingham, Clara

Bingham, Hiram

Bingham, Hiram

Bingham, Hiram

and academic life

at Aguas Caliente

ambition of

and Andean culture

on animal sacrifices

and antiquities dealing

and artifacts controversy

birth of

and book revisions

childhood

and Choquequirao

and climate of Peru

and coca

and Concevidayoc

Connecticut home

discoveries in Peru

dissertation topic

education

and Espiritu Pampa

expedition notes

family life of

first expedition in Peru

first trips to Machu Picchu

and food in Peru

health problems

and the Inca Trail

journey to Espiritu Pampa

Leivers on

and Machu Picchu

and Markham

marriage

and media coverage

and Mount Coropuna climb

and Mount Machu Picchu

and music of Peru

organizational skills

and the Pan-American Scientific Congress

and “Peruvian Time,”

and Phuyupatamarca

and politics

and Puquiura

religious beliefs

research on Inca sites

returns from expeditions

at Rosaspata

and Savoy

second expedition in Peru

and self-promotion

and Tincochaca

Venezuela Colombia expedition

and Vilcabamba

and Vitos

Bingham, Woodbridge

Boehm, Sydney

Bolivar, Simón

bones. See huaqueros (grave robbers); skeletal remains

Boorstein, Daniel

Boston Globe

Boston Post

Bothrops pit viper

Bowman, Isaiah

Buenos Aires

Burger, Richard

Burton, Richard

Cachora

Cajamarca

Calancha, Antonio de la

and Bingham’s research

and Machu Picchu

and mummies of Inca rulers

and Vilcabamba

and Vitcos

Campa Indians

Canari Indians

Capac Ñan

Capra, Frank

Carrasco (sergeant)

Catholicism

ceja de selva

celestial orientation of Inca sites. See also

solstice lines

astronomical observations

and Bingham’s theories

and Choquequirao

and the Inca Trail

and Intihuatana shrines

and Llactapata

and Machu Picchu