Man kan invända att Chankas bar lösskägg, med det verkar långsökt. Kan det finnas ngn koppling till tidigare resonemang ang kopparhandel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanka
"The Chanka people (or Chanca) were a Late Intermediate (ca. 1400 CE.) ethnic group in Peru.Enemies of the Incas, they were centered primarily in Andahuaylas, located in the modern-day region of Apurímac."
Staden Andahuaylas har ett fantasieggande namn, men vad betyder det?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andahuaylas
"Andahuaylas (Quechua Antawaylla, anta copper, waylla meadow, "copper meadow") is a Peruvian city."
https://globenewswire.com/news-release/ ... oject.html
"The Sombrero property is hosted in the Andahuaylas – Yauri belt and is interpreted to be on the north-western margins of the Eocene-Oligocene aged copper porphyry and skarn belt that hosts the Las Bambas, Haquira, Los Chancas, Cotabambas, Constancia, Antapaccay, and Tintaya deposits (Figure 1). The principle targets at Sombrero are copper-gold skarn and porphyry systems and precious metal epithermal deposits."
Man kan invända att det är först i nutid som koppar och ädlare metaller utvanns i Andahuaylas, men det förfaller som Chankas inte var helt oävna på området vid den tid det begav sig:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111738/
"Furthermore, during the Inca expansion towards the Altiplano region, some Chankas were probably taken as mitmaqs to the mines of Potosi (Bolivia)"
Man undrar vad mitmaqs kan vara?:
"During the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) and the Hispanic colonial period in Peru, political leaders used Mitma (forced resettlement) and Reducciones (mission reductions) to govern the diverse peoples of the region. Through these actions, people of different ethnicities or regions were mixed together in a locality (mitmaqs, yanakunas, curacazgos or Inca lord governors, and Spanish mission towns"