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Author : Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ruins at Tiahuanaco written by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Ruins at Tiahuanaco written by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230420882
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Ruins at Tiahuanaco written by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...mention, by Cobo, of three parts, whereas all the gateways so far known are monolithic, makes it difficult to decide. Between the description of Cieza and that of Cobo, in point of date, we have the notice which the priest Diego de Alcobaza gave, in writing, to Garcilasso de la Vega and the latter incorporated in the Comentariot Too little attention has been paid to this description. Some have even attempted to discredit it by insinuating that Alcobaza wrote from hearsay, and on the assumption that he was a Jesuit established at Juli, whence he could easily obtain information about Tiahuanaco. Alcobaza was a secular priest, and there is no reason why he should not have seen Tiahuanaco. His description contains some interesting statements. It is not clear where the buildings and courts are to be looked for which he mentions; but still less is it clear in the case of the description by Cieza. The main objection against Alcobaza seems to be that he speaks of the Lake as bathing one side of the buildings or Courts. It would lead to suppose that they stood in the vicinity of Puma-puncu. The seated figures of which Alcobaza speaks are not inventions of his, since the two statues now in front of the church of Tiahuanaco represent squatting Indians. A tall statue with a vase in hand stands to-day in the great court. In regard to the statement of the Lake approaching Tiahuanacc so near that its waters bathed the ruins, while Cieza mentions the village of Huaqui as in existence at his time; I would observe, that the point on the shore, nearest to Tiahuanaco, is not Huaqui, but the outlet of the Tiahuanaco stream north of it. A former encroachment of Lake Titicaca would, therefore, have extended up the present course of the river, leaving Huaqui on...
Author : Adolph Francis Bandelier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332775033
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Ruins at Tiahuanaco (Classic Reprint) written by Adolph Francis Bandelier and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ruins at Tiahuanaco This bears on the question of the origin of the rock out of which the monoliths are carved. The point has always been raised, how such enormous blocks could have been placed there. It was suggested that, many of them being andesite, the nearest point whence they could have been obtained was the peninsula of Copa cavana. It has been overlooked, that a number of the carved blocks are of the permian sandstone cropping out at Tiahuanaco. This is not the case with the material of the great doorway and other large and small pieces, but the tallest column and many other sculptured pieces are of the reddish sandstone underlying the soil. Mr. Sundt, who is quite an authority on Bolivian geology and lithology, has suggested that the andesite blocks of Tiahuanaco are erratic. 7 This does away with part of the mystery. The existence of similar sculptures in other regions contiguous to the lake (as at Kalaki on the peninsula of Huata) and elsewhere on that same pen insula, was ignored or overlooked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Adolph Francis Bandelier
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498169936
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (699 download)
Download or read book The Ruins at Tiahuanaco (1911) written by Adolph Francis Bandelier and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Author : Bandelier Adolph Francis
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ISBN 13 : 9780259701866
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Ruins at Tiahuanaco written by Bandelier Adolph Francis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Schindler Bellamy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Built Before the Flood written by Hans Schindler Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. S. Bellamy
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ISBN 13 : 9781585093960
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Built Before the Flood written by H. S. Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient site of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries in the world. The author presents evidence showing that the Earth may have once had a completely different moon in the past, along with a calendar that matched a different rotation of the Earth.
Author : Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book The Ruins of Tiahuanaco written by Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Young-S¾nchez
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803249217
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Tiwanaku written by Margaret Young-S¾nchez and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the striking artwork and fascinating rituals of this highland culture through approximately one hundred works of art and cultural treasures.
Author : Stella Nair
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770994
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Stones of Tiahuanaco written by Stella Nair and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century to twentieth-century authors have claimed that Tiahuanaco not only served as a model for Inca architecture and stone masonry, but that the Incas even imported stonemasons from the Titicaca Basin to construct their buildings. Experiments aimed at replicating the astounding feats of the Tiahuanaco stonecutters--perfectly planar surfaces, perfect exterior and interior right angles, and precision to within 1 mm--throw light on the stonemasons' skill and knowledge, especially of geometry and mathematics. Detailed analyses of building stones yield insights into the architecture of Tiahuanaco, including its appearance, rules of composition, canons, and production, filling a significant gap in the understanding of Tiahuanaco's material culture.
Author : Alan L. Kolata
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557861838
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Tiwanaku written by Alan L. Kolata and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-12-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tiwanaku The city of Tiwanaku lies ruined in the rugged Andean steppe of Bolivia twelve thousand feet above sea level, the highest urban settlement of the ancient world. Its wide streets open towards ramparts of glaciated mountain peaks and the intense blue waters of Lake Titicaca. Gigantic stone sculptures and shattered architectural blocks suggest profound antiquity and the passage of great events, now lost and unremembered. Here, two and a half thousand years ago, a distinct society emerged which over the course of thirteen centuries developed one of the greatest civilizations and the first empire of the ancient Americas. This book, the first published history of the Tiwanakan peoples from their origins to their present survival, is a feat of scholarly and archaeological detection undertaken and led by the author. Alan Kolata draws together the evidence of historical documents from the time of the Iberian conquest, accounts and legends of the contemporary inhabitants, and the results of extensive excavations in order to provide a narrative covering three thousand years. In doing so he addresses and explains features of Tiwanakan culture that have long puzzled scholars: the origins of their uniquely massive architecture, the nature of their sophisticated hydraulically-engineered agriculture, their obsession with decapitation and the display of severed heads, and not least the reasons for their mysterious and sudden decline at the end of the tenth century. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, and is fully referenced and indexed. Although written to appeal to the nonspecialist and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is a book of scholarly import, and likely to become the standard work for many years.
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547151158
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Tiwanaku written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes historical accounts describing the site *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Tiahuanaco is not a very large village, but it is celebrated for the great edifices near it, which are certainly things worth seeing. Near the buildings there is a hill made by the hands of men, on great foundations of stone. Beyond this hill there are two stone idols, of the human shape and figure, the features very skillfully carved, so that they appear to have been done by the hand of some great master. They are so large that they seem like small giants, and it is clear that they have on a sort of clothing different from those now worn by the natives of these parts." - Cieza de Leon, 1883 Few ancient ruins capture the imagination like the mighty holy site of Tiwanaku, located on the high Andean altiplano plateau outside of La Paz, Bolivia. Unlike some ancient sites, such as Machu Picchu in neighboring Peru or Chichen Itza in Mexico, Tiwanaku has never been "lost"; on the contrary, it has been marveled over for centuries by Incan nobles, Spanish Conquistadores, modern backpackers, and UFO fanatics alike. Despite this history of amazement, Tiwanaku has remained something of an enigma until recently, but it appears that this would have probably been pleasing to its creators. It was created to be a mysterious, sacred, and beautiful place, one with many secrets and a public face characterized by PT Barnum-like showmanship. Skillful modern archaeology has allowed people to look behind the facade and see, for the first time in many, many centuries, some of the secrets behind it. The story is fascinating, complex, and thoroughly human. The modern visitor arriving to Tiahuanaco finds him or herself in, as Cieza de Leon noted almost 130 years ago, a not very notable, dusty, chilly settlement south of Lake Titicaca. The place would not be of any great interest except that to the east and south of the modern village, within walking distance of the center, rise a number of remarkable ruins. The eastern complex is the larger of the two and encompasses the ceremonial heart of the ancient settlement, including the massive Akapana Pyramid, the Kalasaya Temple, and the famed Puerta del Sol (Gate of the Sun). Visitors typically pose before this remarkable gateway, carved out of a single 10-ton block of andesite and decorated with elaborate carvings, including a curious figure in the center of a man bearing two rods or staffs in its hands. Visitors leaving this central complex travel south - perhaps stopping at the Ceramic Museum, containing typical works of red and white geometric and zoomorphic images on red earthenware - to the southern complex, centered on the famed ruins of Puma Punku. While this typically makes up the entirety of a visitor's time in the ruins, what is often overlooked is that these ceremonial buildings were surrounded by a vast array of lesser structures, many of which appear to have been cannibalized for their stone to build the modern town, especially the church of San Pedro in the main square (Bolivia es Turismo 2016). Beyond this was an impressive system of aqueducts and irrigation, broad expanses of carefully controlled fields, outlying settlements, and a vast network of dependent, conquered territories. Together they make up the political, spiritual, economic, and artistic world which today is called "Tiwanaku," a place, empire, and cultural tradition that is the focus of this text. Tiwanaku: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Pre-Colombian Site in the Heart of the Andes chronicles the history and archaeology of the famous site. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Tiwanaku like never before.
Author : Brien Foerster
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492362135
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Enigma of Tiwanaku and Puma Punku written by Brien Foerster and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the megalithic ruins of the world, one that still stupefies visitors to South America, researchers and laymen alike, is the complex of Tiwanaku, also called Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. The most mysterious part of this archaeological site for many is Puma Punku, a cluster of shattered hard stone building block components that lie undisturbed in the high altitude grasslands near Lake Titicaca. The strangest thing about Puma Punku is that the stone cutting technology found there is not present at other locations in Bolivia, Peru, or in fact the world! This book looks at solving the riddles of who made Tiwanaku and Puma Punku, when, and how.
Author : Brien Foerster
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517583859
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (838 download)
Download or read book The Enigma of Tiwanaku and Puma Punku written by Brien Foerster and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the megalithic ruins of the world, one that still stupefies visitors to South America, researchers and laymen alike, is the complex of Tiwanaku, also called Tiahuanaco in Bolivia. The most mysterious part of this archaeological site for many is Puma Punku, a cluster of shattered hard stone building block components that lie undisturbed in the high altitude grasslands near Lake Titicaca. The strangest thing about Puma Punku is that the stone cutting technology found there is not present at other locations in Bolivia, Peru, or in fact the world! This book looks at solving the riddles of who made Tiwanaku and Puma Punku, when, and how.
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976544682
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Tiwanaku and Puma Punku written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading Few ancient ruins capture the imagination like the mighty holy site of Tiwanaku, located on the high Andean altiplano plateau outside of La Paz, Bolivia. Unlike some ancient sites, such as Machu Picchu in neighboring Peru or Chichen Itzá in Mexico, Tiwanaku has never been "lost"; on the contrary, it has been marveled over for centuries by Incan nobles, Spanish Conquistadores, modern backpackers, and UFO fanatics alike. Despite this history of amazement, Tiwanaku has remained something of an enigma until recently, but it appears that this would have probably been pleasing to its creators. It was created to be a mysterious, sacred, and beautiful place, one with many secrets and a public face characterized by PT Barnum-like showmanship. Skillful modern archaeology has allowed people to look behind the facade and see, for the first time in many, many centuries, some of the secrets behind it. The story is fascinating, complex, and thoroughly human. The modern visitor arriving to Tiahuanaco finds him or herself in, as Cieza de Léon noted almost 130 years ago, a not very notable, dusty, chilly settlement south of Lake Titicaca. The place would not be of any great interest except that to the east and south of the modern village, within walking distance of the center, rise a number of remarkable ruins. The ancient world often evokes wonder, respect and even confusion, and few places accomplish any of that more than the incredible ruined stone temple of Puma Punku. Part of the larger ruined city of Tiwanaku in the altiplano plains of modern Bolivia, Puma Punku is a marvel of engineering, stonemasonry and design. These facts are obvious to even the lay observer, as Puma Punku's stonework is remarkable even for the Andes where visitors have long wondered at ancient stone joints where even a knife bade could not fit between the stones. This level of craftsmanship has caused some, mostly those who have never been to the Andes, to speculate of a fanciful origin for the site, maintaining that such a wonderful and mysterious place must be the work of extraterrestrial or super-human forces. However, Puma Punku's stonemasonry is often considered its most notable feature only because until recently so little was known about the site or the Tiwanaku culture that built it. This would be like visiting the ruins of the Vatican or Westminster Abbey centuries from now and being wowed by the quality of construction. While the construction is impressive, that aspect is not the most interesting story that the sites can tell. Today, through the diligent work of scholars from many countries, the disciplines of archaeology, art history, comparative ethnography and other modern historical sciences have begun to peel back the story of Puma Punku, and historians can once again begin to tell the stories behind the stones. That work has highlighted the enigmatic ruins from many points of view, and have helped explain how it was a place of ritual, showmanship, mythology and, of course, the finest workmanship. Tiwanaku and Puma Punku: The History and Legacy of South America's Most Famous Ancient Holy Site examines some of the most important pre-Columbian ruins in the world. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Tiwanaku and Puma Punku like never before.
Author : Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781295952960
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Ruins at Tiahuanaco - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
