Description
The book presents, for the primary time, a wealthy body of empirical data at the chronology of the Tiwanaku state; the character of the social and political relationships between town and its hinterland; the shape and which means of its monumental and elite architecture; and the feel of on a regular basis life in its residential quarters. Kolata concludes this monumental study with a chapter that places the organization and historical dynamics of Tiwanaku society into a broader theoretical framework that has great salience for archaeological interpretation all the way through the Americas.