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Tim McAndrews, director of the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, will speak on “The Rise and ‘Expansion’ of Tiwanaku Civilization in the Bolivian Andes” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition.

McAndrews is a widely recognized expert on the enigmatic Tiwanaku civilization, which emerged at an extreme elevation in the South American Andes. He will discuss his research on Tiwanaku expansion out of the Lake Titicaca Basin and into the distant region of Cochabamba, Bolivia, nearly 1 500 years ago.

After a decade of research, he is turning traditional interpretations of Tiwanaku expansion upside down. He argues that it was local chieftains, not Tiwanaku kings, who directed the influx of Tiwanaku culture into the Cochabamba region.

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