ANTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Katari River, Lake Titicaca, Kalasasaya
16 Apr 2016
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Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about the notes. Written accounts from spanish colonists from the 16th century. By the time of spanish conquest, tiwanaku understood as vague, pre-inca place. No one understood who had lived there or what had happened. Ephraim squire argued that the lack of visible residential architecture concluded that there never was an extensive population. Cold, dry weather was not sufficiently agriculturally productive to sustain a large population. He argued that tiwanku"s hosues were built on adobe-sun-dried brick. In that part of bolivia, there is a harsh rainy season. There is even hail, so the adobe houses would have been destroyed. As part of this history of bolivian, the nation was rewritten to include the pre-incan past. Due to ties to mnr, ponce was given grant to excavate tiwanaku. He exacavated four important sites: putuni, kalasasaya, semi-subterraen temple, akapana. Chronology and evolution of tiwanaku (according to ponce)
