is there room for applying other survey methods than full-coverage strategies?
The strategy of random sampling survey applied in the Cochabamba region is not common in the Andes. The survey strategy was aimed at recording the spatial distribution of settlements in relationship to particular topographic and soil zones; these latter define spots of agricultural productivity. A sampling strategy was ideal to cover an extensive survey universe needed for this human-land relationships analysis. This survey strategy is not aimed at finding all a region’s sites or its most important site, but rather at recording the range of correlations between agricultural potential and location of most common sites, such as villages and homesteads. The research in Cochabamba tested the nature of political and economic interaction between altiplano and Cochabamba populations during Tiwanaku times (from AD 400-1000). It is commonly assumed that the altiplano Tiwanaku state established colonies in Cochabamba to ensure access to warm-land crops. To test this hypothesis I predicted that e
