![]() ![]() ![]() His ideas were strongly influenced by intellectual trends he lived though and participated in, including racist anthropology. His theories were based on little concrete information but he defended them with enviable passion. Like many pioneers, he was not trained as an archaeologist. ![]() He developed a hyperbolic narrative of Tiwanaku as the ’cradle of American man’ and tirelessly promoted it in Europe and the Americas. While clearly not the field’s father, his commanding presence and outsized legacy could make him the czar of Tiwanaku archaeology. He dedicated nearly fifty years of his life to the study of the Andean past, which resonates through the history of Bolivian archaeology. He was a naval officer, a businessman, and a scholar. Arthur Posnansky was the illustrious pioneer of Tiwanaku archaeology, remembered as a quixotic, flamboyant, and swashbuckling character. ![]()
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