印加人（Inca）又称印卡人，是南美洲古代印第安人。属蒙古人种美洲支。使用克丘亚语。印加的意思是太阳的子孙。主要生活在安第斯山脉中段，中心在秘鲁的库斯科城。信奉多神，以天神（太阳、风景、雷雨等）为主，重视礼仪。
挪威民族志学者、冒险家托尔·海尔达尔认为，这些雕像是由来自秘鲁的前印加人创造的。
Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer, thought the statues had been created by pre-Inca peoples from Peru.
考虑到资源分配的不平等，高原印加人需要获得海拔较低、较温暖的区域的产品，以扩大食物的种类和数量。
Given this unequal resource distribution, highland Incas needed access to the products of lower, warmer climatic zones in order to enlarge the variety and quantity of their foodstuffs.
到了16世纪，南美洲的印加人统治着一个帝国，它沿着太平洋海岸和安第斯高地，从现在的厄瓜多尔一直延伸到智利中部。
By the sixteenth century, the Incas of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile.
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