Regional Changes at Tiwanaku

Name: Regional Changes at Tiwanaku
Start: 1061
End: 1070

Type Event Region South America Time c. 1061–1070

Around the 1060s, the Tiwanaku core on the Bolivian Altiplano had undergone major decline, with population dispersal, shrinking raised-field agricult…

Timeline

c. 1061–1065Tiwanaku ceremonial precinct and raised-field agricultural belt · La Paz DepartmentPopulation and maintenance activity in the site's core area further declined; raised-field agriculture was largely abandoned due to drought and receding lake levels, and ceremonial structures such as the Akapana Pyramid no longer served imperial-scale gathering functions.
c. 1065–1070Lake Titicaca Altiplano lakeshore · Lake TiticacaPopulation dispersed into small lakeshore settlements and river-valley agro-pastoral areas; local pottery and burial traditions revived, and the unified Tiwanaku iconographic style no longer dominated regional material culture, laying the social foundation for the later political development of the Colla and Aymara peoples.

Sources

Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland: Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization, Vol. 2: Urban and Rural Archaeology — Alan L. Kolata (ed.) (1996)
Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia — Charles Stanish (2003)