El Diario reports: Tourism The Takesi is one of the oldest routes left in Bolivia and dates back to pre-Inca times The pre-Columbian Takesi road, treasure of Yanacachi in the south Yungas in La Paz, will be promoted soon by means of a plan promoted by the Tourism Promotion Committee of that municipality, the representative…
Tag: Tiwanaku
Drug Residues Detected on Ancient Ritual Bundle From Bolivia
Archaeology reports: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—New Scientist reports that Melanie Miller of the University of Otago and her colleagues detected traces of five psychoactive chemicals on a collection of drug paraphernalia discovered in a rock shelter in southwestern Bolivia. The rock shelter is thought to have been a funerary enclosure where members of the Tiwanaku state may…
Ancient Hidden City Discovered Under Lake Titicaca
Ian Harvey for The Vintage News: Five minutes away from the town of Tiquina, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, archaeologists found the remains of an ancient civilization under the waters of the lake. The find was made 10 years ago, by Christophe Delaere, an archaeologist from the Free University of Belgium, by following information…
Excavations to expose Tiwanaku’s greatness require a 50 year plan
I can not wait to see that greatness unveiled! It was Tiwanaku’s know-how that allowed the coming Inca Empire to show its magnificent architecture. If you recall seeing in Peru, some Inca’s ruins and those humongous walls with precise, intricate angles … well, those are Tiwanaku’s technology! The above opinion belongs to Bolivian Thoughts. EFE…
To comprehend Tiwanaku people: Anthropologist Plots New Use for Motion-Capture Technology
Tess Eyrich reports for University of California Riverside: Anthropologist Plots New Use for Motion-Capture Technology UCR bioarchaeologist Sara Becker plans to use the cutting-edge technique to document traditional labors of indigenous Andean people RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Jar Jar Binks and Gollum: Two characters hailing from entirely disparate cinematic universes, yet linked in perpetuity by…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 