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Style, Aesthetics, and Politics: Polychrome Ceramic Iconography in the Tiwanaku Valley, AD 500-1100 [PDF]

, 2019
During the period referred to as the Middle Horizon, approximately AD 500 to 1100, a particular style of iconography, depicted on polychrome ceramics, textiles, and stone carvings, was produced, exchanged, and consumed over much of the Andes region of ...
Augustine, Jonah Michael Fares
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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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Considering Imperial Complexity in Prehistory: A Polyethnic Wari Enclave in Moquegua, Peru [PDF]

, 2022
Wari is thought by many to be the first Andean Empire (ca. 600–1000 AD); however, the means of expansion, the areas controlled, the strength of the polity, and the nature of Wari institutions remain largely contested.
Nash, Donna, NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro   +1 more
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From Rural to Urban: Archaeological Research in the Periphery of Huari, Ayacucho Valley, Peru

Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
For hundreds upon hundreds of years, humans lived in small settlements where most individuals, if not all, were linked by kinship ties. Many of these villages were occupied for generations and thus their occupants had a strong connection to the place.
Lidio M. Valdez, J. Ernesto Valdez, Benjamin Campbell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tiwanaku Influence in the South Central Andes: Strontium Isotope Analysis and Middle Horizon Migration

, 2008
Although the presence of Tiwanaku-style material culture throughout southern Peru, northern Chile, and western Bolivia is well documented, the nature of Tiwanaku influence during the Middle horizon (A.D.
Kelly J. Knudson
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Labor and the Rise of the Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100): A Bioarchaeological Study of Activity Patterns

, 2013
This dissertation focused on understanding labor during the development of Tiwanaku (AD 500-1100), one of the earliest Andean states. Prior archaeological research (Kolata 1991, 1993a, b; Stanish 1994, 2003) argued that Tiwanaku labor was centralized ...
Becker, Sara K.
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Institutionalised Indigeneity, State Formation and Crisis: Lessons From the Indio Institucionalizado in Evo Morales' Bolivia

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the institutionalisation of indigeneity in Bolivia under the governments of Evo Morales (2006–2019) as a central component of the MAS project of crafting state hegemony. We trace the emergence of what we call the indio institucionalizado from the social mobilisations of the 1990s and 2000s through the Constitutional ...
Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Angus McNelly
wiley   +1 more source

Vessels, Burials and Households: Piñami's Evidence of the Tiwanaku State in the Central Valley of Cochabamba [PDF]

, 2019
In the middle of the flatlands of the Cochabamba Central Valley of Bolivia, Piñami, one of many habitation mounds in the valley, is exceptional for producing some of the most extensive Tiwanaku-era evidence from Cochabamba. Over the course of five years,
Anderson, Karen A.
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Ideological and Cultural Continuities between the Ancient Tiwanaku and the Inca Empire

, 2023
The extent to which the Inca empire was built on knowledge, experiences, and ideology inherited from one or both of its Middle Horizon predecessors – the Tiwanaku and the Wari states – is a long-debated topic in Andean studies. In this article, we review
Korpisaari, Antti, Pärssinen, Martti
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Masculinity's (mis)fortune: Historicizing affect as extractivist infrastructure in Bolivian sodalite mining

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 230-242, September 2024.
Abstract How is alienability produced as a mode of relation? Is capital a (racialized) affect? This article examines clashing expectations about minerals, specifically sodalite, at the Cerro Sapo mine in Ayopaya Bolivia. It describes how Cerro Sapo's current owner, a white Kenyan, engaged in narrative and bodily practices that sought to detach him from
Mareike Winchell
wiley   +1 more source