Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Cruz Escalonada, Tiwanaku
- Title:
- Cruz Escalonada, Tiwanaku
- Collection:
- Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection
- Set:
- Zenith sun series
- Date:
- 1992
- Location:
- Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia)
Titicaca Lake Region (Peru and Bolivia)
Tiahuanaco Site (Bolivia)
Tiahuanacu Site (Bolivia)
Tiwanacu Site (Bolivia)
Tiahuanaku Site (Bolivia)
- ID Number:
- ISB_00588
- File Name:
- ISB_00588.jpg
- Culture:
- Quechua
Aymará
- Subject:
- Carved stones
Archaeological sites
Patterns (design elements)
Inka observations of the zenith passage of the sun
- Image View Description:
- View of Cruz Escalonada, Tiwanaku
- Description:
- Tiwanacu stone work has designs that are also found in later textiles.
- Bibliography:
- Isbell, Billie Jean. "Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics." In Ethno-Astronomy and Archaeo-Astronomy in the American Tropics, edited by A. F. Aveni and G. Urton. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 385 (1982): 353-363.
URL: http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2193
: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2193
Billie Jean Isbell Andean Collection, Images from the Andes: Collection Highlights: Zenith: http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/collection/Isbell/zenith
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Series:
- Zenith sun series : 167
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This digital collection and its contents are owned and operated by the Cornell University Library. Digital reproductions are provided for private study, scholarship, and research use only and may not be downloaded for use in electronic or print publications (including websites), exhibitions or broadcasts, without permission.
