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Artificial cranial deformation in Tiwanaku, Bolivia [PDF]
Child's Nervous System, 2023 Abstract Purpose Herein lies a brief historical review of the practice of artificial cranial deformation (ACD) in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, a pre-Columbian archeological ruin once regarded as one of the most powerful pre-Inca regions whose influence extended into present-day Peru and Chile from 600 to 1000 AD.
Narang, Pranay +4 more
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The center cannot hold: A Bayesian chronology for the collapse of Tiwanaku. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The timing of Tiwanaku's collapse remains contested. Here we present a generational-scale chronology of Tiwanaku using Bayesian models of 102 radiocarbon dates, including 45 unpublished dates.
Erik J Marsh +10 more
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Influencia de Tiwanaku en la calidad de vida biológica de la población prehistórica de San Pedro de Atacama [PDF]
Estudios Atacameños, 2004 Se examinan cuatro momentos de la prehistoria de San Pedro de Atacama, con el objeto de calificar el impacto de la influencia Tiwanaku en una población local. Fueron realizados estudios osteobiográficos en 161 individuos de los cementerios Solcor-3, Coyo-
Maria Antonietta Costa J +2 more
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Paleogenomic insights into cooperation in the ancient Andes from positive selection on oxytocin pathway genes [PDF]
Genes Brain BehavThe oxytocin system is an important modulator of social behavior that may be involved in the evolution of human cooperation, and expression of the CD38 and OXTR genes in the brain is known to affect oxytocin secretion and binding. The Andean highlands provide an excellent opportunity to evaluate the role of oxytocin in the evolution of cooperation ...
Joseph S +8 more
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Arthur Posnansky, the Czar of Tiwanaku Archaeology [PDF]
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2019 Arthur Posnansky was the illustrious pioneer of Tiwanaku archaeology, remembered as a quixotic, flamboyant, and swashbuckling character. He was a naval officer, a businessman, and a scholar. He dedicated nearly fifty years of his life to the study of the
Erik J. Marsh
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Tracing Human Diversity in South America's Southern Cone: Linguistic, Morphometric, and Genetic Perspectives. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Studying the relationship between biological and cultural diversity can lead to rich insights into human history. South America has been relatively neglected in this kind of work, even though it intriguingly exhibits unexpectedly high biological and cultural diversity.
Menéndez LP, Urban M.
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, 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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Influencia de Tiwanaku en la calidad de vida biológica de la población prehistórica de San Pedro de Atacama [PDF]
Estudios AtacameñosSe examinan cuatro momentos de la prehistoria de San Pedro de Atacama, con el objeto de calificar el impacto de la influencia Tiwanaku en una población local. Fueron realizados estudios osteobiográficos en 161 individuos de los cementerios Solcor-3, Coyo-
Maria Antonietta Costa J +2 more
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Ancient genomes reveal long-range influence of the pre-Columbian culture and site of Tiwanaku. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 Tiwanaku civilization flourished in the Lake Titicaca basin between 500 and 1000 CE and at its apogee influenced wide areas across the southern Andes. Despite a considerable amount of archaeological data, little is known about the Tiwanaku population. We
Popović D +12 more
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Tiwanaku radiocarbon dates. [PDF]
, 2023 The timing of Tiwanaku’s collapse remains contested. Here we present a generational-scale chronology of Tiwanaku using Bayesian models of 102 radiocarbon dates, including 45 unpublished dates.
Maria Bruno (17442449) +10 more
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