Browsing UW-L Archaeology Senior Theses by Subject "Tiwanaku culture"
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Burial practices of the Tiwanaku : a comparative analysis of skeletal remains from Cochabamba, Bolivia
(2009-05)During the summer of 2007, The University of Wisconsin -La Crosse conducted an archaeological field school at the site of Pirque Alto near Cochabamba, Bolivia. Among the many discoveries was the uncovering of a skeleton ... -
Evaluation of the nature of Tiwanaku presence in the Cochabamba Valley of Bolivia : a ceramic analysis of the Pirque Alto Site (CP-11)
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007-05)Some of the most important unanswered questions about Andean prehistory center around the expansive nature of the polities that dominated the area before European contact. Tiwanaku proves to leave an especially puzzling ... -
Tiwanaku ceramic style and its influence on theory, interpretation, and conclusions of Andean archaeologists
(Archaeological Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007)This paper investigates the interpretation of ceramic style in the context of Andean Archaeology. I will focus specifically on the ceramics of the Tiwanaku people that occupied the Lake Titicaca Basin for nearly a thousand ...