Tiahuanaco
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They were followed by the Huari and Tiahuanaco cultures of southern Peru and Bolivia.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
At any rate, the romantic stories of a gigantic inland sea, vastly more extensive than the present lake and actually surrounding the ancient city of Tiahuanaco, must be treated with respectful skepticism.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of this fragment, for it proves to us that in Tiahuanaco, the swastika was a sacred symbol.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
It is, indeed, a cursive representation of a human head and moreover resembles those figured on the garment of a gigantic red sandstone statue found at Ak-Kapana and figured in Stübel and Uhle's Tiahuanaco.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
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