The world's most artful and skillful stone architecture is found
at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The
precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the
point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth
century to twentieth-century authors have claimed that Tiahuanaco
not only served as a model for Inca architecture and stone masonry,
but that the Incas even imported stonemasons from the Titicaca
Basin to construct their buildings. Experiments aimed at
replicating the astounding feats of the Tiahuanaco
stonecutters--perfectly planar surfaces, perfect exterior and
interior right angles, and precision to within 1 mm--throw light on
the stonemasons' skill and knowledge, especially of geometry and
mathematics. Detailed analyses of building stones yield insights
into the architecture of Tiahuanaco, including its appearance,
rules of composition, canons, and production, filling a significant
gap in the understanding of Tiahuanaco's material culture.
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