The Agricultural Foundations of the Tiwanaku State: A View from the Heartland

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In this essay I explore the nature, role, and significance of intensive agriculture in the ancient state of Tiwanaku, which was centered in the high plateau of southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia. Significant primary evidence that the state of Tiwanaku systematically reclaimed immense tracts of now abandoned agricultural land around the borders of Lake Titicaca is adduced and evaluated.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): applab

Title: American Antiquity

Abbreviated Title: American Antiquity

Publisher: JSTOR

ISSN (Print): 0002-7316

Publication date Created: October 1986

Publication date (Print): January 2017

Volume: 51

Issue: 04

Pages: 748-762

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DOI: 10.2307/280863

SO-VID: 01feced0-5bce-4fbd-a030-05716e833890

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