Tiwanaku Pre-Inca "Figure"

From: Denver Art Museum Limited Edition: 14 Exhibition: Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca Material: Printed 2-ply vinyl Dimensions: 30" x 89" (76cm x 226.cm) Hanging Hardware Included Summary Taking hallucinogenic drugs. Drinking copious amounts of beer. Decapitating and dismembering people. Sounds like a rather excessive and morbid Halloween party, but, it is just another day of ritual ceremony among the Tiwanaku peoples of the high Andes. These early ancestors of the Inca thrived between 500 and 900 A.D. in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia. 7 banners from the exhibition, Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca, are available. Description Where Peru and Bolivia meet, along the shores of Lake Titicaca, lay the remains of a civilization that precedes the more well-known Inca. The city of Tiwanaku, built at over 12,000 feet in the Andes, reached its apogee about 500-900 A.D., then mysteriously disappeared around 1100 A.D. The Tiwanaku had created a bustling city of terraced pyramids and monu