Lake Titicaca & Underwater Archaeology (Clip)

SUMMARY: This video includes a brief discussion about the Incas on the Island of the Sun (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia) and an underwater archaeological project that I directed there during 1987-92. I met with an American team led by Roger Brown that was sailing kayaks on the lake in 2000.
BACKGROUND: Lake Titicaca (12,506 ft. /3,812 m) is shared by Peru and Bolivia and is considered to be the world’s highest navigable lake. While living in Bolivia during 1987-92, I directed an underwater archaeology project, mainly focused on a site off of the small island of Koa (Khoa) near the Island of the Sun. The National Institute of Archaeology conservator Eduardo Pareja and I made several trips, often with other divers assisting, using both tanks and a hookah system. While surveying the site, we found rare artifacts from both the Inca & Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) cultures, which demonstrated a continued pattern of worship there since the middle of the first millennium. A site museum was built in the village of Challapampa on the Island of the Sun to display and store the archaeological finds, and it was inaugurated in 1994. In 2000 I returned with a film crew led by Roger Brown, who was making a film about their expedition to cross the Bolivian Altiplano over both land and water. The video shown here is a short clip of that film made available courtesy of Roger Brown.
PHOTO ALBUM LINKS
1. Lake Titicaca Underwater Archaeology (1987-92)
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2. Lake Titicaca - Islands of Sun & Moon
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3. Lake Titicaca Region & Festivals
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4. Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku
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PUBLICATION LINKS**
1. "Underwater Archaeological Research in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia"
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2. “Investigaciones Arqueológicas Subacuáticas en el Lago Titicaca” docs.google.co...
3. "Tiahuanaco: Sacred Center of the Andes"
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4. "Sacred Peaks of the Andes"
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5. Our academic book "Exploraciones Arqueológicas Subacuáticas en el Lago Titikaka" brings together the results of research relating to Lake Titicaca that was undertaken by five specialists. NOTE: Links to photo albums, videos, and PDFs of other publications relating to the Andes in general--and the Lake Titicaca region in particular (including Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku)--are available at www.johanreinhard.net.

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Great job. Here in Perú is not much know your work here, but i get realize that it is a remarcable labor. Thanks you for your job.

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