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Empire of the Ancestors David J. Schmidly The expert author team drawUncovering evidence that ancestor veneration was deeply rooted in Wari society, shaping Wari expansion, rituals, and statecraft This volume examines the central role of ancestors in Andean society during the Wari Empire of the Middle Horizon period (600 1000 CE), centuries before the rise of the Incas. As one of the earliest expansionist states in the Americas, the Wari laid the foundations of statecraft later adopted by the Inca. Their imperial