Talk:Tiwanaku
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[edit] Official spelling
Tiwanaku is the official spelling, and Tiahuanaco is the old one. I think Tiwanaku should be the title of the article and Tiahuanaco should be the redirect. Any objections? Gadykozma 12:43, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
No objection... Tiwanaku is the way it's generally spelled in the native Aymara and Quechua languages, while Tiahuanaco reflects Spanish spelling. This name pairing is quite common in Bolivia (and, I'd bet, also Peru). Since Tiwanaku is an indigenous site, I think it's only proper to use the indigenous spelling, regardless of whether it's "official" or not. The exception would be the nearby modern villiage of Tiahuanaco, built by the Spanish colonials in large part using stones taken from the ruins of Tiwanaku. If the "old"/Spanish spelling is to be used for anything, it should be used only for the modern villiage, reserving the "new"/Aymara-Quechua spelling for the ancient site. Murple 10:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Actually, the town name is pretty fluid. I've never called the village anything but Tiwanaku, and no matter what any sign might say, that is what people who live there call the modern village. Really, any Bolivian would know what you mean no matter what you call the place, but Tiwanaku is best in almost any case, including what to call the modern village.
[edit] Alan Kolata
Need to work in the info about (and from) Alan Kolata, researcher from Chicago who had much to do with unravelling the mystery of Tiwanaku's farming techniques and reintroducing them in the experiments alluded to in the article. Should also mention the theories of trans-oceanic trade by Tiwanaku... and the (flakey, in my opinion) theories linking Tiwanaku to Atlantis myths, simply because they are so widespread. Murple 10:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I would personally delete anything that alludes to trans-oceanic trade and Tiwanaku. I'm not the only one that would.
[edit] Bias against alternate theories
Although I don't agree with any theories concerning extraterrestrial influences on ancient civilisations so far, I think that describing it as a "fad" is inappropriate. The term suggests that the followers of these theories are credulous and that the theorists themselves are shallow and/or selective in their research and sources. This may or may not be the case, but as it stands one can construe a bias against the theorists in that part of the article.
Requesting a rephrasal.
Astion 13:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
