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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 11 March 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jennyfayfay ( article contribs). Peer reviewers: Honga2.
The article is at present in large parts a duplicate of Tiwanaku. Further there no evidence that a Tiwanaku empire ever existed. Sietecolores ( talk) 15:31, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Should the article's title be changed to Tiwanaku Empire to make this article's title consistent w/ Wari Empire & Inca Empire? Alternatively, the article's name could be changed to Tiwanaku culture or Tiwanaku civilization since there's apparently a dispute over whether Tiwanaku was an empire. Blaylockjam10 ( talk) 19:23, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
Yes! We need to re-name this article. No modern researcher would call it an Empire – this is an old idea from the 1970s based mostly on comparisons to the Inca and an attempt by Bolivian politicians to make Tiwanaku as cool as the Inca (Bolivia v. Peru nationalism). My PhD advisor forbid us from calling it an Empire (I did my dissertation on the rise of the state at Tiwanaku). There is an interesting debate over what kind of state Tiwanaku was (bureaucratic v. segmented, etc). The page on the Tiwanaku site also needs a lot of work, but these should be two separate pages: one about the site and one about the state and its colonies and contacts beyond the Lake Titicaca Basin. E42mercury ( talk) 19:23, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Far too much space is given here to Kolata's interpretation. Kolata is not an expert in the field of iconography and the interpretation of the front-facing figure as a deity was heavily criticized.-- JonskiC ( talk) 07:50, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I am a student editor and I will be focusing on adding on to the Agriculture section of the article. Jennyfayfay ( talk) 02:20, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 11 March 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jennyfayfay ( article contribs). Peer reviewers: Honga2.
The article is at present in large parts a duplicate of Tiwanaku. Further there no evidence that a Tiwanaku empire ever existed. Sietecolores ( talk) 15:31, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Should the article's title be changed to Tiwanaku Empire to make this article's title consistent w/ Wari Empire & Inca Empire? Alternatively, the article's name could be changed to Tiwanaku culture or Tiwanaku civilization since there's apparently a dispute over whether Tiwanaku was an empire. Blaylockjam10 ( talk) 19:23, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
Yes! We need to re-name this article. No modern researcher would call it an Empire – this is an old idea from the 1970s based mostly on comparisons to the Inca and an attempt by Bolivian politicians to make Tiwanaku as cool as the Inca (Bolivia v. Peru nationalism). My PhD advisor forbid us from calling it an Empire (I did my dissertation on the rise of the state at Tiwanaku). There is an interesting debate over what kind of state Tiwanaku was (bureaucratic v. segmented, etc). The page on the Tiwanaku site also needs a lot of work, but these should be two separate pages: one about the site and one about the state and its colonies and contacts beyond the Lake Titicaca Basin. E42mercury ( talk) 19:23, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Far too much space is given here to Kolata's interpretation. Kolata is not an expert in the field of iconography and the interpretation of the front-facing figure as a deity was heavily criticized.-- JonskiC ( talk) 07:50, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I am a student editor and I will be focusing on adding on to the Agriculture section of the article. Jennyfayfay ( talk) 02:20, 12 March 2022 (UTC)