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Ponce Monolith
The Ponce Monolith, also known as the Ponce Stela, is a monumental stone sculpture from the pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Tiwanaku polity, Tiwanaku civilization. It is located in the Kalasasaya area of the Tiwanaku, ruins of Tiwanaku in Bolivia. The statue holds a ''qiru'' in their left hand and a snuff tray in their right. The monolith was discovered by Spaniards, who carved a cross on the shoulder of the monument and left it buried. It was named after Bolivian archaeologist Carlos Ponce Sanginés, who headed the archaeology team that exhumed it in 1957. It is the second largest monolith discovered in that area, after the Bennett Monolith. In 2019, a series of new banknotes was introduced into circulation in Bolivia. On the reverse of the 200 Bolivian boliviano, boliviano note is the site of Kalasasaya with a view of the Ponce Monolith. The stela also appeared on a 1960 postage stamp. References {{reflist 1957 archaeological discoveries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiwanaku Site Museum
The Tiwanaku Site Museum is an archaeological museum located in Tiwanaku, La Paz, Bolivia, near the Tiwanaku Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian archaeological site. It houses numerous funerary archaeological artifacts, ceramic pieces, and stone sculptures. One of the most important figures in the museum is the Bennett Monolith, which is the largest stele ever found in the Andean world. The building was designed by architect Carlos Villagómez. The inclusion of an open court in the center of the museum was influenced by Tiwanaku design. Since 2000, the site has been managed by the local Aymara people. The museum was inaugurated on June 24, 2002. Gallery File:Patio_central_museo_Tiahuanacu_.jpg, Center patio File:Tiwanaku08.jpg File:BO_Tihuanako_(149)_(17042408319).jpg, Bennett Monolith See also * References {{Authority control Museums in Bolivia Museums established in 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Ponce Sanginés
Carlos Ponce Sanginés (La Paz, Bolivia; May 6, 1925La Paz, Bolivia; March 18, 2005) was a Bolivian archaeologist and restorer who dedicated a significant part of his life to the study of Tiwanaku. Biography : Ponce Sanginés was born in La Paz, Bolivia in May 1925 and graduated from the archaeology program at the Higher University of San Andrés before specializing at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. In 1958, he founded the "Center for Archaeological Research at Tiwanaku" in Bolivia, becoming one of the first Bolivians to study the archaeological site. He played a crucial role in establishing the National Museum of Archaeology on January 31, 1960, which until then had the status of a multidisciplinary museum. This change was a result of a study conducted by Ponce Sanginés when he served as the Director of the Center for Archaeological Research in Tiwanacu, with the museum being overseen by the architect Gregorio Cordero Miranda at that time. In 1964, Ponce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiwanaku Polity
The Tiwanaku polity ( or ) was a Pre-Columbian polity in western Bolivia based in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin. Tiwanaku was one of the most significant Andean civilizations. Its influence extended into present-day Peru and Chile and lasted from around 600 to 1000. Its capital was the monumental city of Tiwanaku, located at the center of the polity's core area in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin. This area has clear evidence for large-scale agricultural production on raised fields that probably supported the urban population of the capital. Researchers debate whether these fields were administered by a bureaucratic state (top-down) or through a federation of communities with local autonomy (bottom-up; see review of debate in Janusek 2004:57-73). Tiwanaku was once thought to be an expansive military empire, based mostly on comparisons to the later Inca Empire. However, recent research suggests that labelling Tiwanaku as an empire or even a state may be misleading. Tiwanaku is mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pre-Columbian Era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. This era encompasses the history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous cultures prior to significant European influence, which in some cases did not occur until decades or even centuries after Columbus's arrival. During the pre-Columbian era, many civilizations developed permanent settlements, cities, agricultural practices, civic and monumental architecture, major Earthworks (archaeology), earthworks, and Complex society, complex societal hierarchies. Some of these civilizations had declined by the time of the establishment of the first permanent European colonies, around the late 16th to early 17th centuries, and are know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalasasaya
The Kalasasaya (also: Kalassasaya; ''kala'' for ''stone''; ''saya'' or ''sayasta'' for ''standing up'') or Stopped Stones is a major archaeological structure that is part of Tiwanaku, an ancient archeological complex in the Andes of western Bolivia that is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Kalasasaya is a low platform mound with a large courtyard, which is surrounded by high stone walls. The Kalasasaya is about 120 by 130 meters in dimension and aligned to the cardinal directions. Like the other platform mounds within Tiwanaku, it has a central sunken court. This sunken court can be reached by a monumental staircase through an opening in its eastern wall. The walls are composed of sandstone pillars that alternated with sections of smaller blocks of Ashlar masonry. This wall has been reconstructed in modern times. From 1957-1960 excavations took place at the site where all 4 walls were reconstructed along with the entrance gate. The Ponce Monolith is found within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku ( or ) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz, and it is one of the largest sites in South America. Surface remains currently cover around 4 square kilometers and include decorated ceramics, monumental structures, and megalithic blocks. It has been conservatively estimated that the site was inhabited by 10,000 to 20,000 people in AD 800. The site was first recorded in written history in 1549 by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León while searching for the southern Inca capital of Qullasuyu. Jesuit chronicler of Peru Bernabé Cobo reported that Tiwanaku's name once was ''taypiqala'', which is Aymara meaning "stone in the center", alluding to the belief that it lay at the center of the world. The name by which Tiwanaku was known to its inhabitants may have been lost as they had no written language. Heggarty and Beresford-Jones suggest that the Puquina language is most likely to have been the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiru
A (also spelled ''kero'', ''quero'', and locally also ''qero'') is an ancient Andean cup used to drink liquids like Alcoholic beverage, alcohol, or more specifically, chicha. They can be made from wood, ceramics, silver, or gold. Metal or gold cups are also called ''aquilas''. They were traditionally used in Andean feasts. were decorated by first cutting a shallow pattern on the surface of the cup, then filling the pattern with a durable, waterproof mixture of plant resin and pigment such as cinnabar. The finely incised lines would meet at intersection points that collaborated to create shapes such as triangles, squares, and diamonds. The shapes are organized in two to four horizontal registers. "The Met Museum" One is generally decorated with lavish, hand-painted, geometric designs that follow the traditional techniques in Pí ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennett Monolith
The Bennett Monolith is a monumental stone sculpture from the pre-Columbian Tiwanaku civilization, located in present-day Bolivia. Standing approximately 7.3 meters (24 feet) tall and weighing around 20 tons, it is the largest known human-carved monolithic statue in the Andean region and the Western hemisphere. Originally called "Stela 10", the monolith was named after American archaeologist Wendell C. Bennett, who exhumed the artifact in 1932 from the Semi-Subterranean Temple at the Tiwanaku archaeological site. It was possibly detected earlier in 1903 by the French Scientific Mission. The monolith was moved and displayed in a plaza in La Paz, Bolivia. In 2000, it was moved back to Tiwanaku. The structure is currently housed at the Tiwanaku Site Museum, near where it was originally found. The statue is made of reddish sandstone. Gallery File:Bennett 1ºfoto.jpg, First photograph of the monolith in June 1932 File:Monolito_Bennett_en_miraflores.jpg, The monolith on display at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivian Boliviano
The boliviano (; currency sign, sign: BsBanco Central de Bolivia. "Galeria de monedas y billetes''." Accessed 26 February 2011.Banco Central de BoliviaOfficial websiteAccessed 26 February 2011. ISO 4217 code: BOB) is the currency of Bolivia. It is divided into 100 Cent (currency), cents or centavos in Spanish. Boliviano was also the name of the currency of Bolivia Boliviano (1864-1963), between 1864 and 1963. From April 2018, the manager of the Central Bank of Bolivia, Pablo Ramos, announced the introduction of the new family of banknotes of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia, started with the 10 Bs note, and then gradually arrived to introduce the 200 Bs note, presented in April 2019. The new family of banknotes of the Plurinational State received several awards such as "the best banknotes in Latin America", was highlighted by its security measures, its aesthetics and its inclusion of prominent figures in Bolivian history, being among those who awarded the "Latin Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuevos Billetes Estado Plurinacional De Bolivia
Nuevos is Orquesta El Arranque's sixth album. Its sixteen tracks are a tribute to the new generation of tango composers. It forms a triptych with the two former albums, ''Clásicos'', a collection of tango classics, and '' Maestros'', which featured the compositions of the intermediate generation of tango composers. There are two versions of the album: a plain one with an acrylic case and a lyrics booklet and a deluxe version with a board game that is a cross between Trivial Pursuit and snakes and ladders Snakes and ladders is a board game for two or more Player (game), players regarded today as a worldwide classic. The game Traditional games of India, originated in ancient India as ''Moksha Patam'', and was brought to the United Kingdom in the .... It received a nomination for the Premios Gardel in 2009. Track listing Personnel *Camilo Ferrero (First Bandoneon) *Ramiro Boero (Second Bandoneon) *Guillermo Rubino (First Violin) *Osiris Rodríguez (Second Violin) *Martín V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
