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The rural foundation for urbanismBook 1977 • Isbell, William Harris
Huari • South America > Central Andes
Isbell has written an excavation report of a Hauri site, Jargampata, in the San Miguel Valley, 25 km, or a day's walk from Huari. He describes the settlement pattern, architecture, and ceramics. Extensive remains of terraces and canals are evidence o...Huari administration and the orthogonal cellular architecture horizonessay 1991 • Isbell, William Harris
Huari • South America > Central Andes
This article attempts to explain the wide-spread diffusion of Huari-Tiahuanaco iconography and architectural styles during the Middle Horizon period in the Central Andes, and to understand the political realtionship that motivated such profound cultu...A History of Huari studies and introduction to current interpretationsessay 1991 • Isbell, William Harris & McEwan, Gordon Francis
Huari • South America > Central Andes
Isbell and McEwan discuss the theoretical backgrounds of the various authors in this edited volume and present an introduction to the papers....Was Wari a state?article 1978 • Isbell, William Harris & Schreiber, Katharina Jeanne
Huari • South America > Central Andes
Isbell and Schrieber were interested in whether Huari was a state; so they examined Huari settlements in the Ayacucho Valley to determine if the sites were distributed in a size hierarchy with at least three tiers of administrative sites. Isbell and ...Architecture and spatial organization at Huariessay 1991 • Isbell, William Harris et al.
Huari • South America > Central Andes
Isbell, Brewster-Wray, and Spickard feel that to better understand Huari architecture and political relationships one must first study the site of Huari. Therefore their '…goal is to describe architecture at Huari and to identify the patterns and pla...