The archaeological site of Chiripa is located in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia, associated with the Tiwanaku culture, and occupied between 1000 BC to 1100 AD.
Chiripa has a large mound ("temple") with at least three building episodes and several occupations and burials in the near vicinity. The site was first described by Padre Pedro Marabini in the early 20th century; since the 1990s, the Taraco Archaeological Project from the University of California at Berkeley has conducted research at Chiripa, led by Christine Hastorf. The site was the focus of a 2002 dissertation by Matthew Bandy.
Sources
This glossary entry is part of the About.com Guide to the Tiwanaku Empire and the Dictionary of Archaeology.
Hastorf, Christine A. 2003 Community with the ancestors: ceremonies and social memory in the Middle Formative at Chiripa, Bolivia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(4):305-332.
