Tiahuanaco

American  

[tee-uh-wuh-nah-koh] / ˌti ə wəˈnɑ koʊ /

Also Tiahuanacu

adjective

1. of or relating to a pre-Incan culture existing c300 b.c.–a.d. c900, chiefly in Peru and Bolivia, characterized by the use of megalithic masonry carved with geometric and animal designs, stone statues, polychrome pottery, and bronze artifacts.

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Other Word Forms

• Tiahuanacan
  noun

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Tiahuanaco

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

Tiahuanaco may, at some distant period, have enjoyed the privilege of being a seaport.

From The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Stephen Salisbury

One of the more highly speculative of the Bolivian writers, Señor Posnansky, of La Paz, believes that gigantic balsas were used in bringing ten-ton monoliths across the lake to Tiahuanaco.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

Among the ruins which belong to the older civilization are those at Lake Titicaca, old Huanuco, Tiahuanaco, and Gran-Chimu, and it probably originated the roads and aqueducts.

From Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

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