# Janusek 2015: Tiwanaku urban origins: distributed centers and animate landscapes

> John Wayne Janusek, 2015. 9 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the city's history and the collapse debate.

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# Tiwanaku urban origins: distributed centers and animate landscapes

John Wayne Janusek, 2015. _The Cambridge World History, Volume 3 (Cambridge University Press)_.

Synthesis of Tiwanaku's growth from a ceremonial centre to a city of perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 people between AD 500 and 1000, and its decline after about AD 1000.

**Puma Punku and Tiwanaku** Chapterdoi: **[10.1017/cho9781139035606.015](https://doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139035606.015)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for the city's history and the collapse debate.

## Cited by on this site 9 records

[The state's ritual and political order broke down, with monuments desecrated and the elite's authority…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/answers/ANS0D69YQMY4129/the-states-ritual-and-political-order-broke-down-with)

Answer

ANS

[Work stopped because the city declined and its ritual order collapsed, leaving the project unfinished.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/answers/ANS0D69YN6T5AGA/work-stopped-because-the-city-declined-and-its-ritual-order)

Answer

ANS

[The Gateway of the Sun](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/artifacts/ART0D69YSV871KM/the-gateway-of-the-sun)

ART

[Decline of the monumental core is dated from about AD 1000, before the drought's onset.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/evidence/EVD0D69YQD42DW8/decline-of-the-monumental-core-is-dated-from-about-ad-1000)

Evidence

EVD

[Monoliths and architecture show deliberate defacement in the terminal period.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/evidence/EVD0D69YQWR46QV/monoliths-and-architecture-show-deliberate-defacement-in-the)

Evidence

EVD

[The city declines and its monuments are abandoned](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/events/EVT0D69YF3G0Z8Z/the-city-declines-and-its-monuments-are-abandoned)

EVT

[Tiwanaku becomes a monumental city](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/events/EVT0D69YEKW1BZH/tiwanaku-becomes-a-monumental-city)

EVT

[Puma Punku and Tiwanaku](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku)

The mystery article

MYS

[Why did Tiwanaku fall?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/puma-punku/questions/QST0D69YH9T3EKS/why-did-tiwanaku-fall)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
Janusek, J. W. (2015). Tiwanaku urban origins: distributed centers and animate landscapes. The Cambridge World History, Volume 3 (Cambridge University Press). https://doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139035606.015
```

[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139035606.015)

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