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excavated by
researchers at
Tiwanaku include the
terraced platform mound Akapana,
Akapana East, and
Pumapunku stepped platforms, the Kalasasaya, the Kantatallita...
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Akapana (Akkapana) is an
artificial platform mound (sometimes
referred to as a pyramid) at the pre-Columbian
archaeological site of
Tiwanaku in Bolivia...
- Tiwanaku,
other than
Akapana,
which is
believed to be "Pumapunku's twin".
Among the
place names in Tiwanaku, only the
names "
Akapana" and "Pumapunku" have...
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rites in
relation to the dead. The
Akapana East
Building has
evidence of
ancestor burial. The
human remains at
Akapana East seem to be less for show and...
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interprets the
Andean cross motif as a top view of a
platform mound (like the
Akapana or Pumapunku).
According to
anthropologist Robin Beck the
cross motif in...
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dates to at
least 200 BCE - 200 CE. It is
located to the
north of the
Akapana and west of the Semi-Subterranean Temple,
other structures in the complex...
- Bolivia: 57–68.
Alconini Mujica,
Sonia (1993). La cerámica de la pirámide
akapana y su
contexto social en e
estado de
Tiwanaku (Tesis de Licenciatura) (in...
- honor. He
restored the
Kalasasaya temple and
initiated excavations at
Akapana. In 1975, he
founded the
National Institute of
Archaeology of Bolivia....
- la
sociedad urbana en Mesopotamia: un
proceso en la historia' (1986), '
Akapana. Una pirámide en el
centro del mundo' (1992), 'Teotihuacan:
ciudad excepcional...
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terraced platform mound Akapana, Kalasasaya‘s
Temple and
Palace of Putuni. One of the most
spectacular monuments in
Tiwanaku is
Akapana. This is a terraced...
