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Materials used were red sandstone from Lake Titikaka, granite and basalt. The decorations, carvings and pottery examples we saw at the ruins and in the two museums at Tiwanaku reminded me of many different civilizations -- Olmec, Maya and Inca. Sculpted heads (170 of them) had Asian, Amazonian, Mongol and Negroid characteristics. What a convergence of cultures! Animals were also represented.
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