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Title: Gateway to the east: the Palaspata temple and the south-eastern expansion of the Tiwanaku state
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 terraced platform temple and demonstrates substantial state investment. Constructed, the authors argue, to directly control inter-regional traffic and trade between the highlands and the eastern valleys of Cochabamba, the complex represents a gateway node that effectively materialised the power and influence of the Tiwanaku state.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2208411 2015924
PAR ID:
10617536
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Cambridge Core
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Antiquity
Volume:
99
Issue:
405
ISSN:
0003-598X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
831 to 849
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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