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Labor and the Rise of the Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100): A Bioarchaeological Study of Activity Patterns [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Investigations of how past human societies managed during times of major climate change can inform our understanding of potential human responses to ongoing environmental change.
Baker, Paul A.   +6 more
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Vessels, Burials and Households: Piñami's Evidence of the Tiwanaku State in the Central Valley of Cochabamba [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Temporal inflection points in decorated pottery: a bayesian refinement of the late formative chronology in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Late Formative period immediately precedes the emergence of Tiwanaku, one of the earliest South American states, yet it is one of the most poorly understood periods in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin (Bolivia). In this article, we refine the ceramic
Alconini Mujica   +33 more
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Do nuclear DNA and dental nonmetric data produce similar reconstructions of regional population history? An example from modern coastal Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This study investigates whether variants in dental morphology and nuclear DNA provide similar patterns of intergroup affinity among regional populations using biological distance (biodistance) estimates.
Abungu   +88 more
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Holocene variations in Lake Titicaca water level and their implications for sociopolitical developments in the central Andes. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Guédron S   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Household Archaeology in the Andes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Data from domestic contexts can be used to address significant anthropological research questions. Archaeological investigations in the Andes (areas once incorporated into the Inka empire, including northwestern Argentina, highland Bolivia, northern ...
Nash, Donna   +1 more
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Quinoa, potatoes, and llamas fueled emergent social complexity in the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
Miller MJ   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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