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Gateway to the east: the Palaspata temple and the south-eastern expansion of the Tiwanaku state [PDF]

Antiquity
The nature and extent of the Tiwanaku state expansion in the Andes during the second half of the first millennium AD continues to be debated. Here, the authors report on the recent discovery of an archaeological complex 215km south-east of Tiwanaku, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard strongly resembles a Tiwanaku ...
José M. Capriles, Sergio Calla Maldonado, Juan Pablo Calero, Christophe Delaere   +3 more
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Ancient DNA Analysis Suggests Negligible Impact of the Wari Empire Expansion in Peru's Central Coast during the Middle Horizon. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The analysis of ancient human DNA from South America allows the exploration of pre-Columbian population history through time and to directly test hypotheses about cultural and demographic evolution.
Guido Valverde, María Inés Barreto Romero, Isabel Flores Espinoza, Alan Cooper, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Bastien Llamas, Wolfgang Haak   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The genetic history of indigenous populations of the Peruvian and Bolivian Altiplano: the legacy of the Uros. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The Altiplano region of the South American Andes is marked by an inhospitable climate to which the autochthonous human populations adapted and then developed great ancient civilizations, such as the Tiwanaku culture and the Inca Empire.
José Raul Sandoval, Daniela R Lacerda, Marilza S A Jota, Alberto Salazar-Granara, Pedro Paulo R Vieira, Oscar Acosta, Cinthia Cuellar, Susana Revollo, Ricardo Fujita, Fabrício R Santos, Genographic Project Consortium   +10 more
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Acerca de la cerámica Tiwanaku y una vasija del valle de Azapa (Arica, Norte Grande de Chile)

Estudios Atacameños, 2004
La intención de este artículo ha sido contribuir a la comprensión de la problemática Tiwanaku en Arica, usando como "excusa" el redescubrimiento de una vasija excepcional, proveniente del sitio funerario Az-71a del valle de Azapa excavado por G. Focacci.
Mauricio Iván Uribe Rodríguez
doaj   +10 more sources

Acerca de la cerámica Tiwanaku y una vasija del valle de Azapa (Arica, Norte Grande de Chile)

Estudios Atacameños
La intención de este artículo ha sido contribuir a la comprensión de la problemática Tiwanaku en Arica, usando como "excusa" el redescubrimiento de una vasija excepcional, proveniente del sitio funerario Az-71a del valle de Azapa excavado por G. Focacci.
Mauricio Uribe R
doaj   +1 more source

La deformación craneana en la población prehistórica de Coyo Oriente, San Pedro de Atacama

Estudios Atacameños, 2008
El propósito de este trabajo es caracterizar una población representativa del salar de Atacama durante el Período Medio y los posibles flujos poblacionales asociados al fenómeno Tiwanaku.
M. Antonietta Costa, Agustín Llagostera, José A Cocilovo   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Two pucaras, one community and a territory: local trajectories and duality in precordillera settlements of Tarapacá, Atacama Desert, Late Intermediate and Late Periods (AD 1250–1450)

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
The phenomenon of pucaras has been studied from different perspectives in the South-Central Andes. These settlements, developed during the Late Intermediate Period, have mainly been explained as a consequence of the disintegration of Tiwanaku, linked to ...
Claudio Wande, Mauricio Uribe, Francisca Santana-Sagredo, Pablo Mendez-Quiros, Francisca Urrutia, Josefina González, Diego Mayorga, Ale Vidal-Elgueta, María José Herrera-Soto, Patricia Kelly   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

1000 years of population, warfare, and climate change in pre-Columbian societies of the Central Andes. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Lima M, Gayó EM, Gurruchaga A, Estay SA, Santoro CM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Holocene variations in Lake Titicaca water level and their implications for sociopolitical developments in the central Andes. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Guédron S, Delaere C, Fritz SC, Tolu J, Sabatier P, Devel AL, Heredia C, Vérin C, Alves EQ, Baker PA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Quinoa, potatoes, and llamas fueled emergent social complexity in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
Miller MJ, Kendall I, Capriles JM, Bruno MC, Evershed RP, Hastorf CA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source