The Archaeology of Tiwanaku
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Dr. Kolata and his colleagues will begin research at the                        prehistoric site of Tiwanaku in Northern Bolivia.  For more than                a millennium (ca. A.D. 100-1200), Tiwanaku was the paramount city               of the Lake Titicaca basin which was, in turn, one of the great                 demographic centers of native Andean civilization.  However,                    despite Tiwanaku's important position in the prehistory of the                  Andes - it is one of the early centers of state formation -                     little is known about its economic history and how it rose to                   prominence, governed an empire, and then declined.  Dr. Kolata's                research is designed to fill this gap.                                                                                                                          In past work Dr. Kolata has examined the agricultural system                    which sustained this large population.  Now he will focus on the                city proper.  Rather than excavate monumental architecture, he                  will focus on domestic structures which will shed light on how                  the inhabitants subsisted and how they were organized.  He plans                to examine a series which extends from "commoner" to "elite"                    dwellings.  Excavation of craft production areas should also                    provide insight into economic organization.  Artifacts will be                  analyzed in the field, and Dr. Kolata will collaborate closely                  with Bolivian colleagues.                                                                                                                                       This research is important for two reasons.  First, it will shed                light on a little understood aspect of South American prehistory.               The Tiwanaku empire rose quickly and extended its influence                     rapidly over a wide area.  This history is little understood.                   Second, it will increase our understanding of the more general                  question of how complex societies such as our own arise and are                 maintained.
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