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2 books match the query 'Tiwanaku culture'
Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology–III
Edited by Alexei Vranich, Elizabeth A. Klarich and Charles Stanish
University of Michigan Press, 2012
The focus of this volume is the northern Titicaca Basin, an area once belonging to the quarter of the Inka Empire called Collasuyu. The original settlers around the lake had to adapt to living at more than 12,000 feet, but as this volume shows so well, this high-altitude environment supported a very long developmental sequence.
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Domestic Architecture In Andes
Mark S. Aldenderfer
University of Iowa Press, 1993
Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes is a comprehensive and challenging look at the burgeoning field of Andean domestic architecture. Aldenderfer and fourteen contributors use domestic architecture to explore two major topics in the prehistory of the south-central Andes: the development of different forms of complementary relationships between highland and lowland peoples and the definition of the ethnic affiliations of these peoples.
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