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Nighttime Sky and Early Urbanism in the High Andes: Architecture and Ritual in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Formative and Tiwanaku Periods

Alexei Vranich, Scott C. Smith, 2017. Archaeology of the Night (University Press of Colorado).

The orientation of Tiwanaku's platforms and gateways to the solar and stellar horizon and their use in ritual.

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Vranich, A., & Smith, S. C. (2017). Nighttime Sky and Early Urbanism in the High Andes: Architecture and Ritual in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Formative and Tiwanaku Periods. Archaeology of the Night (University Press of Colorado). https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607326786.c006
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