Editing Llama (section)

=== Inca Empire ===
In the [[Inca Empire]], llamas were the only beasts of burden, and many of the people dominated by the Inca had long traditions of llama herding. For the Inca nobility, the llama was symbolic, and llama figures were often buried with the dead.<ref name=Inca_Culture>
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 |title       = Little Llamas
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In South America, llamas are still used as beasts of burden, as well as for the production of [[Fibre|fiber]] and [[meat]].<ref name=Other_Culture>
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 |url=https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/7086258/PDF
 |author1=Jean Larson|author2=Judith Ho
 |title=Information Resources on the South American Camelids: Llamas, Alpacas, Guanacos, and Vicunas 1943–2006
 |date=25 June 2007
|url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005035/http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/llama.htm
 |archive-date=2 May 2014
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The [[Inca]] deity [[Urcuchillay]] was depicted in the form of a multicolored llama.<ref>{{cite book|last= D'Altroy|first= Terence N.|title= The Incas|series= The People of America|publisher= [[Blackwell Publishing]]|location= [[Oxford]]|isbn= 978-0-631-17677-0|page= [https://archive.org/details/incasthepeopleso00tere/page/149 149]|chapter= The Inca Pantheon|year= 2002|chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/incasthepeopleso00tere/page/149}}</ref>

[[Carl Troll]] has argued that the large numbers of llamas found in the southern Peruvian highlands were an essential factor in the rise of the [[Inca Empire]].<ref name=Gade2016>{{cite book |last=Gade |first=Daniel |date=2016 |title=Spell of the Urubamba: Anthropogeographical Essays on an Andean Valley in Space and Time |url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319208480#aboutBook |chapter=Urubamba Verticality: Reflections on Crops and Diseases |page=86 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-20849-7 }}</ref> It is worth considering the maximum extent of the Inca Empire roughly coincided with the most significant distribution of [[alpaca]]s and llamas in Pre-Hispanic America.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hardoy |first=Jorge Henríque |date=1973 |title=Pre-Columbian Cities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fbQJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|page=24 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0802703804 }}</ref> The link between the Andean [[biome]]s of [[Puna grassland|puna]] and [[páramo]], llama [[pastoralism]] and the Inca state is a matter of research.<ref name=Gade1996>{{cite journal |last1=Gade |first1=Daniel W. |date=1996 |title=Carl Troll on Nature and Culture in the Andes (Carl Troll über die Natur und Kultur in den Anden)  |journal=[[Erdkunde]] |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=301–316 |doi=10.3112/erdkunde.1996.04.02 }}</ref>