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Arthur Posnansky (1873–1946), often called "Arturo", was an Austrian engineer, explorer, ship’s navigator, entrepreneur, La Paz city council member, and amateur archaeologist. During his lifetime, Posnansky was known as a prolific writer and researcher and for his active participation in the defense and development of Bolivia .
From 1910 to 1945, Arthur Posnansky maintained that the site was 11,000–17,000 years old [8] [9] based on comparisons to geological eras and archaeoastronomy. Beginning in the 1970s, Carlos Ponce Sanginés proposed the site was first occupied around 1580 BC, [ 10 ] the site's oldest radiocarbon date.
The "Gate of the Sun" The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun (in older literature simply called "(great) monolithic Gateway of Ak-kapana", [1] is a monolithic gateway at the site of Tiahuanaco by the Tiwanaku culture, an Andean civilization of Bolivia that thrived around Lake Titicaca in the Andes of western South America around 500-950 AD.
Arthur Posnansky (1873–1946), engineer, explorer, archaeologist; Christina Poznanska Perks (born 1935), Polish-Canadian architect; Daphna Poznanski-Benhamou (1950), French politician; Gitel (Gertrude) Poznanski Steed (1914–1977), American cultural anthropologist; Grzegorz Marek Poznański (born 1971), Polish diplomat and ambassador
Arthur Posnansky also observes that in dates near the 22 December, in the Tiwanaku culture, the population used to worship their deities to ask for good luck, offering miniatures of what they wished to have or achieve.
Prize Arthur Posnansky granted by the Presidency of the Republic of Bolivia; Prize of the Royal Foundation of Toledo for the Rehabilitation of the Historical Center of Havana, in an act presided over by the King of Spain; Golden Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, Poland; Commemorative medal on the 1300 years of the Bulgarian State
Merrick Posnansky (08 March 1931 – 29 September 2024) was a British archaeologist. [1] He worked as a curator for the Uganda Museum and also served as the 31st president of the Uganda Society between 1964-1965 [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The 4 references that are listed as discrediting Posnansky, contrary the false claims made above, do in fact support the statement that Posnansky's ideas has been discredited even if some do not mention his name. For example, modern radiocarbon dating and Kelley et al. (2002) have discredited Posnansky's dating of Tiwanaku by archaeoastronomy.