The site was first recorded in written history in _________ by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León while searching for the southern Inca capital of Qullasuyu.

Tiwanaku's is related to the Aymara term taypiqala, meaning "_________________", alluding to the belief that it lay at the center of the world.

An assessment of reliable _________ dates estimates that the site Tiwanaku was founded around AD 110.

__________dating is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon.

The structures that have been excavated by researchers at Tiwanaku include the _________ temple.

The Akapana is an approximately cross-shaped __________ structure with a gateway of the _____.

Pumapunku or Puma Punku (_______ and ________ puma "cougar, puma," punku "door") is part of a large temple complex of Tiwanaku in western Bolivia.

The Kalasasaya (also: Kalassasaya; kala for stone; saya or sayasta for standing up) or Stopped Stones is a major archaeological structure that is part of __________ , an ancient archeological complex in the _________.

Tiwanaku culture seems to have dissolved rather abruptly some time around AD 1000. The Tiwanaku are argued to have scattered into the local _____________, only to disappear shortly thereafter.