# Vranich 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

> Alexei Vranich, Scott C. Smith, 2017. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the astronomical orientation of the architecture.

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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.

**Puma Punku and Tiwanaku** Chapterdoi: **[10.5876/9781607326786.c006](https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607326786.c006)** Checked against the original0

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Cited for the astronomical orientation of the architecture.

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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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