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Excerpt from The Ruins of Choqquequirau North of the lookout and on the saddle between it and the main ridge is located the lower plaza (fig. A rude fortification fifteen feet high, running across the little ridge from one precipitous slope to the other; a long one-story building of uncertain use in which curious carved stone rings are set into the walls in such a manner as to serve possibly for the detention of prisoners (plate XLI, b); a long one-story building that might have been a grand hall or place of meeting, whose walls are surrounded with numerous niches; and a block of story-and-a-half houses whose gabled ends are still standing. The use of gables was almost universal in the central and southern parts of the Inca empire. Ruins of Inca towns are in fact specially marked by their pointed gables which almost always have one or two windows, or entrances to the second story. These double buildings stand transversely to the general line of the edifices and have a middle or party-wall exactly dividing the gable. It rises to the peak of the structure and once doubtless supported the upper ends of the rafters. These houses bear a striking resemblance to one of the Inca buildings at Ollantaytambo described by Squier 1 in the following words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: The Ruins of Choqquequirau (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Hiram Bingham
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36
• EAN: 9781333628017
• ISBN: 1333628013
• ID: 14416603
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 64 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 2 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. September 2016

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