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  1. Temple complex dedicated to the veneration of the volcanic peak Arundane on the Horizon. Archaeologists from The Field Museum recovered fragments of six Tiwanaku ritual incense burners around a ceremonial platform in the complex. The find identifies the temple as a Tiwanaku ritual center in the Wari city, ca. 800-100...

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  2. The Temple of Picchu Picchu at the Wari site of Cerro Baul (600-1000 AD) is named after the volcanic peak on the horizon that it venerated.

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  6. A Wari town on the slopes of Mejia (700-800 AD) currently under excavation by Dr. Donna Nash (UIC). Nash's excavation team is working at center photo.

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  7. The Wari (600-1000 AD) archaeological site of Cerro Baul, Moquegua, Peru as seen from the east.

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  8. Across from the Camata Terrace system, another massive 300+ hectare Inka agricultural system graces the slopes.

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  9. The Late Tiwanaku archaeological site of Tumilaca la Chimba (950-1050 AD), reoccupied by the Estuquina (Cochuna) group (1250-1450 AD). The domestic sectors of the site were excavated by Pari and later Bawden in the 1980s and by the Cerro Baul Project in 2006-7, under the direction of P R Williams and Nicola Sharratt.

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  10. The summit sector of Cerro Mejia, dated to the early Wari Period (700-800 AD), contains several palatial residence and feasting compounds. UIC Prof. Donna Nash's excavations in 1999-2000 and 2008-9 are revealing evidence for feasting by provincial elites.

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