Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture. Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture The city of Tiwanaku, capital of a powerful pre-Hispanic empire that dominated a large area of the southern Andes and beyond, reached its apogee between 500 and 900 AD. Its monumental remains testify to the cultural and political significance of this civilisation, which is distinct from any of the other pre-Hispanic empires of the Americas. Tiwanaku : centre spirituel et politique de la culture tiwanaku La ville de Tiwanaku fut la capitale d'un puissant empire préhispanique qui étendit son influence sur une vaste zone des Andes méridionales et au-delà, et atteignit son apogée entre 500 et 900 de notre ère.
Les vestiges de ses monuments témoignent de l'importance culturelle et politique de cette civilisation qui se distingue nettement des autres empires préhispaniques des Amériques. التيواناكو: المركز الروحي والسياسي لثقافة تيواناكو source: UNESCO/ERI 蒂瓦纳科文化的精神和政治中心 蒂瓦纳科城(Tiwanaku)是古拉丁美洲印第安王国的首都，当时这一强大的帝国统治了南安第斯山脉及之外的广阔地区。 Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Revealing Ancient Bolivia. The prehistoric city of Tiwanaku is located on the southern shore of the famous Lake Titicaca along the border between Bolivia and Peru. During the heyday of this city was between A.D. 500 and 950, religious artifacts from the city spread across the southern Andes, but when the conquering Inka arrived in the mid-fifteenth century, the site had been mysteriously abandoned for half a millennium. Even after its abandonment, Tiwanaku continued to be an important religious site for the local people. It later became incorporated into Inka mythology as the birthplace of mankind as the Inka built their own structures alongside the ruins.
Tiwanaku remains an integral locale in the religious lives of Andean people in the turbulent present of modern Bolivia. In the summer of 2004, the archaeology field school from Harvard University excavated the location known as La Karaña, an area north of the site's monumental core. Click here for the conclusion to the 2004 season. Monte Verde, Chile. NATIVE PEOPLES of NORTH AMERICA Anthro 7 Monte VerdeOldest Archaeological Site in the Americas This artist's illustration of how the Monte Verde campsite may have looked some 12,000 years ago comes from the MSN Encarta website and is the sole property of the Microsoft Corporation.
NOTE: Experts certified two years ago that Monte Verde in Chile is the oldest archaeological site in the Americas and the story of humans in the New World was rewritten. Now Monte Verde faces a scientific challenge. For more information on the challenge, click here. Until a few years ago, most archaeologists believed that the Clovis people were the first humans to reach the Americas, spreading across North America shortly after 12,000 years ago. For reasons not yet clear, about 13,000 years ago the watertable at Monte Verde rose and flooded the campsite, forcing the people to leave. Hundreds of artifacts. Bibliography. Tiahuanaco Photo Gallery by Peter & Jackie Main at pbase. Norte Chico civilization. Archaeologists have been aware of ancient sites in the area since at least the 1940s; early work occurred at Aspero on the coast, a site identified as early as 1905,[3] and later at Caral further inland.
History and geography[edit] Caral panorama. Andean Peru has been recognized as one of six global areas where there was independent, indigenous development of civilization, and as one of two, along with Mesoamerica, in the Western Hemisphere.[6] Norte Chico has pushed back the horizon for complex societies in the Peruvian region by more than one thousand years.
The Chavín culture, circa 900 BC, had long been considered the first civilization of the area. The Peruvian littoral appears an "improbable, even aberrant" candidate for the "pristine" development of civilization, compared to other world centers.[11] It is extremely arid, bounded by two rain shadows (caused by the Andes to the east, and the Pacific trade winds to the west). Remains of platform mound structures at Caral.