Over the last few days - h/t Turtle - all us "lost city of Z" types have been taking a W for a newly-discovered urban civilisation in Bolivia. This is Llanos de Mojos aka Beni; southeast of the lake Rogaguado.
The main site is Cotoca; LandÃvar is also noted. All these sites have been pinpointed by lidar, so not much excavated (yet). The dates are broad: AD 500-1400. This piques my curiosity inasmuch as it joins other sites as collapsed before the Pizarros Hermanos (the Supplement is adamant upon this). Rogaguado, as it happens, did not collapse with the rest.
I wonder if the fall of Tihuanaco at Titicaca had knock-on effects along the transAndes. Was there tuberculosis? Did the Cotoca survivors shift north to Rogaguado, for trade with the Inca?
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