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A O MIC IMPRES ION
The Pre-Inca Period
Te r~
ncient culture, many centuries prior
t
lh
t
of the Incas, extended throughout most
of
l'LTU,
Bolivia, Eucador, Colombia and the Argen–
lin .
rrhe
archaeologists have given it variou•
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s. lt
l
as
been called Tiawanaku; sorne,
as
for
·ampl ,
l
le, Middendorf, etc. call
it
the
peri d of
A
rá domination.
. rrhere hav
b .
1
ecent pacient and co scien–
tious inves igations a ove all the interpretation
o
f
tl
myth
r
OI
T '
ti-Wírakocha, and these
f
firm our
h
po thesis
at this ancient civiliza–
ti
on \Vas nothing else, nor could
it
be otherwise
than Ke wa.
· Tiawanaku was not the exclusive center of the
m g lithic empire ; it may have been a religious
e
)j
tal
· a.
can he demonstrated by the traces of
a.
pecial cult at Apu-Kontata, and those of sun
' or hip
in
tl e great temple at Kalasasaya. During
th
paleo -1 eswa period, Cuzco was also an im-
, p rtant city; is is possible to arrive at this con–
lu . ion after an examination of th
ruin of Inca
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