The Stones of Tiahuanaco: A Study of Architecture and Construction (Monograph)

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The world’s so much artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the purpose that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century to twentieth-century authors have claimed that Tiahuanaco no longer only served as a model for Inca architecture and stone masonry, but that the Incas even imported stonemasons from the Titicaca Basin to construct their buildings. Experiments aimed at replicating the astounding feats of the Tiahuanaco stonecutters–perfectly planar surfaces, very best exterior and interior right angles, and precision to within 1 mm–throw light at the stonemasons’ skill and knowledge, especially of geometry and mathematics. Detailed analyses of establishing stones yield insights into the architecture of Tiahuanaco, including its appearance, rules of composition, canons, and production, filling a significant gap within the working out of Tiahuanaco’s subject material culture.

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