XX XXX X La Estaqueria was probably a religious site: a large earthen platform here originally supported an arrangement of wooden posts arranged in rows. Their forked tops may originally have supported a roof, but forked posts occur elsewhere as grave markers. Pottery here dates the monument to around AD 6-700 when Nazca was under Huari domination.
#La Estaqueria
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#IW Bureaucratic and Military States
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#IW Huary State
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#IW Tiwanaku State
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#IW Irrigation and Land Recclamation
5 101 X Huari, capital of the Huari state, was a sprawling city that grew to house some 20-30,000 people by about AD 700. Clustered round a religious centre encircled by a massive wall, the houses were divided into sectors occupied by different strata of society, including the elite and various artisans such as potters and stone workers.
#Huari
6 101 X The town of Pikillacta was founded by the Huari in conquered territory to direct the construction and maintenance of irrigation works and to govern the local inhabitants. Such settlements were planned constructions, defended rectangular compounds containing the quarters of Huari administrators, ceremonial precincts, storehouses and temporary accommodation for local people engaged in labour on public works.
#Pikillacta, See parcel brought by Bill Breckon on Jan 14
7 101 X At Conchapata near Huari a shrine was found containing locally made pottery vessels depicting the Tiwanaku Staff God. This is interpreted as evidence of the introduction and local adoption of the Tiwanaku religious cult; shortly after its acceptance here it spread to Huari and became established as the official religion of the expanding Huari state.
#Conchapata
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#IW Tiwanaku City
9 101 X Like Pajchiri, Luqurmata was developed by the Tiwanaku rulers as a regional administrative centre to oversee the extensive reclaimed agricultural lands of Pampa Koani, collecting taxes in kind and organizing workers paying taxes in labour on the maintenance of the canals and ditches draining Pampa Koani. Substantial stone architecture including sculptures has been found here.
#Luqurmata
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#IW Tiwanaku and Huari Art
11 101 X Pampa Koani, a vast swampy area on the shores of Lake Titicaca, was transformed into highly productive agricultural land by a massive Tiwanaku land reclamation project. Drainage canals were dug and raised fields constructed. Over the resulting farming landscape were scattered raised mounds bearing the dwellings of the farmers who cultivated the terrain.
#Pampa Koani
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#IW Pachacamac
13 101 X An independent city and religious centre that existed contemporary with the Nazca culture, c 200 BC - AD 200, Pukara had both a large residential area and a temple on a high artificial platform. Its pottery was similar to that known from early Tiwanaku and like Tiwanaku it had fine stone sculpture.
