A Late Intermediate Period highland culture centered on the Cusco basin, identified by its black-on-red globular pottery with simple linear geometric decoration; its people are credited with early stonework at the Sacsayhuamán hilltop above Cusco, well before the site's later Inca expansion.
Superseded during the 13th century as Inca culture and the Inca state emerged directly out of the Killke-period population of the Cusco basin; Killke ceramic styles give way to later Inca Cusco-Polychrome wares.
The defining museum-collection study of Killke ceramics from Cuzco, the type material for the culture.
Standard survey of Andean prehistory that situates the Killke-period Cusco basin as the direct predecessor of Inca state formation (broad context).