Research Project on South Central Andes
Formations and transformations of ethnic identities in the South Central Andes, AD 700–1825. A multidisciplinary study of tangible and intangible patrimony
© Antti Korpisaari, Risto Kesseli & Martti Pärssinen 2004
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Photos related to Finnish-Bolivian research in the South Central Andes 1/4
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Fig. 1. A view of Caquiaviri, the ancient capital of the Pacasa señorío. Its Colonial history and archaeological past have been the objects of multidisciplinary study of our Finnish-Bolivian research team since the late 1980’s. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Fig. 2. A view of snowy Tiraska with the 2003 excavation area of the main cemetery terrace in the foreground. Photo Antti Korpisaari.
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Fig. 3. Tiraska’s burial 13 following the removal of one of the cist’s cap stones and some of the dirt which had filtered into the burial chamber. Photo Antti Korpisaari.
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Fig. 4. Tiraska’s burial 20 with two ceramic vessels in the foreground. Photo Antti Korpisaari.
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Fig. 5. The ten Late Tiwanaku ceramic vessels found during the 2002 excavations of the cemetery of Tiraska. Photo Antti Korpisaari.
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Fig. 6. A Late Tiwanaku ceramic vessel found in 2003 in Tiraska’s burial 24. Photo Antti Korpisaari.
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Fig. 7. Two of the stone chullpa burial towers of Taramaya. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Fig. 8. A mummy found during the 2002 excavations in chullpa 1 of Taramaya. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Fig. 9. The remains of an adult female were discovered in 2003 in front of the doorway of Taramaya’s chullpa 2. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Fig. 10. The skeleton of a child buried under a stone slab in front of the doorway of Taramaya’s chullpa 2. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Fig. 11. Dozens of decorated adobe chullpas can be found in Sacabaya, south of the Mount Sajama. Many of these burial towers were surveyed in 2004. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Fig. 12. A closer view of one of Sacabaya’s most impressive decorated adobe chullpas. Photo Risto Kesseli.
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Updated 11.8.2005
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