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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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Political mosaics and networks: Tiwanaku expansion into the upper Desaguadero Valley, Bolivia

World Archaeology, 2014
AbstractOngoing debate about the expansion of the Tiwanaku state has centred on the extent to which it exercised direct political control over a continuous territory. Positions in this debate range from those that posit a unified Tiwanaku heartland comprising much of the Lake Titicaca Basin to those that conceptualize Tiwanaku influence as more ...
John W Janusek
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The Tiwanaku Camelid Sacrificer: origins and transformations of animal iconography in the context of Middle Horizon (A.D. 400–1100) state expansion

Ñawpa Pacha, 2019
Prehispanic Andean iconography communicated ideology and structures of power. On the coast, iconography depicting violence and fertility legitimized elite power. In Tiwanaku (A.D.
Sarah Baitzel
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Tiwanaku Temples and State Expansion: A Tiwanaku Sunken-Court Temple in Moquegua, Peru

Latin American Antiquity, 1993
Until 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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Tiwanaku in the Titicaca Basin and Its Expansion in the South-Central Andean Region

Abstract This chapter presents the main recent research advances on Tiwanaku. Due its particular political and religious ideology, this highland culture has stood out for its ability to integrate diverse societies and regions on a scale never seen before in the south-central Andes.
Claudia Rivera-Casanovas, Carolina Agüero   +1 more
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Tiwanaku Expansion into the Western Titicaca Basin, Peru

2005
Charles Stanish, Kirk Lawrence Frye, Edmundo de la Vega, Matthew T. Seddon   +3 more
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P-XRF compositional analysis of obsidian from the Middle Moquegua Valley, Peru: Interaction on the Tiwanaku and Wari frontier

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022
Paul Goldstein, David Reid, Patrick Ryan Williams   +2 more
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Drought and the collapse of the Tiwanaku Civilization: New evidence from Lake Orurillo, Peru

Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021
Aubrey Hillman, Mark Abbott, Josef P Werne   +2 more
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Tiwanaku and Wari State Expansion:

2013
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The Suñawa Monolith and a Genre of Extended-Arm Sculptures at Tiwanaku, Bolivia

Ñawpa Pacha, 2021
Anna Guengerich, John W Janusek
exaly