Urton, Gary2014-03-102012Urton, Gary. 2012. The Herder–Cultivator Relationship as a Paradigm for Archaeological Origins, Linguistic Dispersals, and the Evolution of Record-Keeping in the Andes. In Archaeology and Language in the Andes, ed. Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones, 321-344. Oxford: Oxford University Press.9780197265031http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11878777This chapter explores an alternative proposal for the linguistic impact of Wari expansion: that it could in fact have been two-fold, dispersing both Quechua and Aymara simultaneously. To this end, it invokes the distinctive Andean institutions of ‘complementary asymmetric dualism’, to explore whether they might not have linguistic correlates too. Specifically, it looks to the wari–llaqwash dyadism between mid-altitude, maize-cultivating wari, hypothesized as speaking Quechua, and higher-altitude, camelid-herding llaqwash speaking Aymara.en-USWari expansionlanguageQuechuaAymaracomplementary asymmetric dualismllaqwashMonograph or Book2014-03-1010.5871/bacad/9780197265031.001.0001