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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Chip Stanish. Timecode In: 00:02:14. Timecode out: 00:09:43. Notes: Tiwanaku civilization of Lake Titicaca. Subject 2: Goat (Capra hircus). Subtitle: bleat. Timecode In: 00:16:39. Timecode out: 00:16:41. Subject 3: Sheep (Ovis aries). Subtitle: baa. Timecode In: 00:26:43. Timecode out: 00:29:32. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Chip Stanish. Timecode In: 00:29:41. Timecode out: 00:45:14. Notes: Ancient civilizations of Peru. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Luperio Onofre Mamani. Timecode In: 00:53:31. Timecode out: 01:18:22. Notes: in Spanish; Ayamara ceremony and explanation. Subject 6: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Conch blast. Timecode In: 01:11:32. Timecode out: 01:12:53. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Neumann RSM 190 through Sonosax SX-M2 preamp into Sony TCDD8. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: PERU Log of DAT #: 4 Engineer: Leo Del Aguila Date: November 2001 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good :03 It¿s Leo, describing set up (same as DAT 3 except with ¿big fuzzy thing¿ all over mic for wind noises¿ :29 Alex: (fading up but off mic) ¿terraces from an earlier people here and just walking along here, he starts pulling out shards of pottery and he thinks he¿s found an ax. It¿s just everywhere¿ :44 Alex: I¿m going up for a little tool to dig it out¿(off mic, others) extract an ax¿ hopefully it¿s an ax¿ what kind of archeologists are we, didn¿t bring trowels or¿ Leo: you want a swiss army knife? I have a little leatherman¿ The leatherman archeologist tool¿ Leo: you know they should come out with a¿ Leather person, gender neutral ¿ Leo: I¿m Peruvian, it doesn¿t work for me¿ Lisa¿s really politically incorrect¿ Leo: alright, you¿re PI, alright ¿ Lisa doesn¿t believe in drinking beer, thinks you should go to bed early ¿ Leo: is that true, I don¿t believe it¿ 1:50 Alex: So, uh, last time, we were walking around with Dr. Stanish, doing this, he was using a broken tile to dig in this bank. And this is the professional quality Radio Expeditions multitool and I think this is going to do it¿ That¿s a fine looking tool, alex. You sir, could be an honorary archeologist. 2:14 So at any rate, you noticed that we pointed out the red floor, should we point that out? ¿A: Yeah, show, show¿ See, this entire thing that we¿re standing on, this entire thing, is completely artificial fill. By that we mean that they wanted to build platforms to have living spaces on to build their floors so if you look in this road cut here, you can see that there is a thick, probably four inch thick of red clay, and you can see when you go through it, you can see how mice and red it would be. Now imagine, we actually picked up this red clay in the excavations that are, oh, about 80 yards away over there. So this entire terrace, this entire terrace around this hill, around AD 600, around 600 AD, was a red clay floor. A beautiful, beautiful terrace, that was probably used by some of the most important people of Tiwanaku society. 3:19 Alex: but I don¿t see any red clay in the dirt around here, so they must have mined that somewhere and brought it here and then used it to make the floor¿ Exactly, there¿s red clay over there across the bay, and there¿s a little bit of red clay in that hillside, but they would have had to bring this in, probably by baskets and llama, one basket load at a time to completely make this beautiful, exquisite, thick red clay floor. It¿s really quite remarkable. On the other side, you can see a yellow clay floor. That¿s a little bit later in time, maybe a 100 years later, when they got tired of the red floor for some reason they decided they wanted a yellow floor. Again, they had to get clay from somewhere over there and they brought it over and lay it down. This would be again about 5, 600, this would be oh, maybe 650 AD. 4:11 ... (Notes truncated)
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- Goat Capra hircus
- Sheep Ovis aries
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- SONY TCD-D8
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- Cataloged
- 14 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 14 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 14 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman