Gateway to the east: the Palaspata temple and the south-eastern expansion of the Tiwanaku state
AntiquityThe 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 +3 more
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The myths and realities of Bayesian chronological modeling revealed [PDF]
, 2017 We review the history of Bayesian chronological modeling in archaeology and demonstrate that there has been a surge over the past several years in American archaeological applications.
Hamilton, W. Derek, Krus, Anthony M.
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Frontiers in Environmental ArchaeologyThe 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 +9 more
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Una consideración sobre el surgimiento del Estado y los modelos consensuales. A propósito de Tiwanaku [PDF]
, 2003 Al abordar el problema del surgimiento del Estado en Tiwanaku, llama la atención el notable énfasis que la mayor parte de las explicaciones disponibles en la actualidad asignan a los factores consensuales, en desmedro de aquellos relacionados con la ...
Campagno, Marcelo
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Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]
, 2016 Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
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Globalization without markets? Population movement and other integrative mechanisms in the ancient Andes [PDF]
, 2016 In late pre-Hispanic periods much of modern Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Ecuador was connected by a network of intense interactions through the long distance movement of people as well as goods and ideas.
Sillar, B
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Craft Production and Exchange in the Pre-Hispanic Andes: LA-ICP-MS and pXRF Analyses of Tiwanaku Ceramics [PDF]
, 2017 The development and expansion of political states is often accompanied by specialized craft production and long-distance trade networks. One of the earliest states in Andean South America was Tiwanaku, a polity that developed near the shores of Lake ...
Gabler, Colette V
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Fire and climate: contrasting pressures on tropical Andean timberline species [PDF]
, 2015 Department of Biological Sciences; Florida Institute of Technology; Melbourne FL USA Department of Biological Sciences; Florida Institute of Technology; Melbourne FL USA Department of Biological Sciences; Florida Institute of Technology; Melbourne FL USA
Alfonso-Reynolds, AM +6 more
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A Bioarchaeological Approach to Social Transition in the Pre-Hispanic Andes: A Diachronic Study of Health at Tumilaca la Chimba, Peru [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis investigates the relationship between long-term, macro-scale social change and systemic stress by analyzing osteological data from two occupations at the archaeological site of Tumilaca la Chimba, Peru.
Lowman, Shannon A
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The Chanka: Archaeological Research in Andahuaylas (Apurimac), Peru [PDF]
, 2010 In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program of expansion.
Aráoz Silva, Miriam +2 more
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