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The site of Tiwanaku is the focal of the Tiwanaku Religion, home to monoliths, monumental stone and mud architecture, and sunken courts.
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Ñawpa Pacha, 2012
Abstract Tiwanaku is among the most prominent sites in the Andes. Despite nearly a century of research, it remains unclear when the site was founded, currently thought to be around 300 B.C. Excavations in 2008 in the Kk'arana sector present patterns suggested by previous research the earliest material culture is from the first part of the Late ...
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Abstract Tiwanaku is among the most prominent sites in the Andes. Despite nearly a century of research, it remains unclear when the site was founded, currently thought to be around 300 B.C. Excavations in 2008 in the Kk'arana sector present patterns suggested by previous research the earliest material culture is from the first part of the Late ...
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2002
Architecture, to state the obvious, is a social act—social both in method and purpose. It is the outcome of teamwork; and it is there to be made use of by groups of people, groups as small as the family or as large as an entire nation. Architecture is a costly act. It engages specialized talent, appropriate technology, handsome funds. Because it is so,
Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella Nair
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Architecture, to state the obvious, is a social act—social both in method and purpose. It is the outcome of teamwork; and it is there to be made use of by groups of people, groups as small as the family or as large as an entire nation. Architecture is a costly act. It engages specialized talent, appropriate technology, handsome funds. Because it is so,
Jean-Pierre Protzen, Stella Nair
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2002
The site of Tiwanaku was one of the earliest monuments in the Andes to capture the attention of the early chroniclers. These historians were keenly aware of how important the ruins at Tiwanaku were in the life of the people of the central Andes. It is therefore understandable that many of their accounts of Andean origin narratives at Tiwanaku were ...
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The site of Tiwanaku was one of the earliest monuments in the Andes to capture the attention of the early chroniclers. These historians were keenly aware of how important the ruins at Tiwanaku were in the life of the people of the central Andes. It is therefore understandable that many of their accounts of Andean origin narratives at Tiwanaku were ...
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The Tiwanaku religion was practiced in the Andes around AD 600–1000. With no written sources, it is known only archaeologically, known for its large and diverse set of stone monoliths, portals, and precise stonework used for religious community structures.
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Tiwanaku Settlement System: The Integration of Nested Hierarchies in the Lower Tiwanaku Valley
Latin American Antiquity, 1996This study reports on changing settlement patterns in the lower Tiwanaku Valley during the Formative (1500 B. C.-A. D. 100), Classic (A. D. 400-800), and Postclassic (A. D. 800-1100) periods. Based on the association of agricultural features with these site distributions, as well as the consideration of ethnohistoric and ethnographic information, it is
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Tiwanaku Temples and State Expansion: A Tiwanaku Sunken-Court Temple in Moquegua, Peru
Latin American Antiquity, 1993Until recently, an entrenched view of Tiwanaku expansion in the south-central Andes as a primarily cultic phenomenon precluded discussion of state-built ceremonial facilities outside of Tiwanaku’s immediate hinterland of the Bolivian altiplano. However, recent research in the Tiwanaku periphery has found specialized ceremonial architecture that ...
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