Description

The megalithic ruins of Tiahuanacu, on the Bolivian altiplano, were the great puzzle of South American archaeology, and Belisario Diaz Romero (1870-1940) wrote this essay to place them in a general account of American prehistory: the peopling of the continent, the antiquity of its civilisations, and the position of Tiahuanacu among them.It belongs to the moment when Bolivian scholars began to claim their own antiquity against European interpretation.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1920 La Paz edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.