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El registro lítico en el estado Tiwanaku

open access: yesIntersecciones en Antropología, 2012
Erik Marsh
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Visions of Tiwanaku

2013
“What was Tiwanaku?” This question was posed to a select group of scholars that gathered for an intensive two-day conference at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. For over half a millennium, the megalithic ruins in the highlands of the Andes mountains have stood as proxy for the desires and ambitions of various empires and political agendas ...
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On Reconstructing Tiwanaku Architecture

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000
The site of Tiwanaku is thought of as the center of a civilization of the same name that exerted its influence over the southern Andean region from around 300 B. C. when it emerged to about A. D. 1100 when it collapsed. The architecture of Tiwanaku today is reduced to several eroded mounds, outlines of courtyard structures, weathered uprights ...
Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella E. Nair
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Iwawi and Tiwanaku

2002
For years Andean archaeologists have realized that the ceramic and temporal chronology for Tiwanaku is inadequate, but researchers continue to use the poor chronology, and in the process they may be promoting erroneous visions of Tiwanaku’s past. This paper reports the first season of excavations at the Iwawi mound, only 23 km from the site of Tiwanaku.
William H. Isbell, JoEllen Burkholder
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Environmental Monitoring at Tiwanaku

MRS Proceedings, 1995
Tiwanaku is considered to be the most highly valued archaeological site in Bolivia, and one of the most significant in the New World. The aggressive environment at Tiwanaku is thought to have damaging effects on the stability of its stone architecture and monuments.
Shin Maekawa, Frank Lambert, Jeff Meyer
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