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Del Busto Duthurburu, José Antonio: La pacificación del Perú. Librería STUDIUM S.A., Lima, 1984. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Historia general del Perú o Segunda parte de los Comentarios Reales. Córdoba, 1617. Sánchez, Luis Alberto: La literatura peruana. Derrotero para una historia cultural del Perú, tomo I. Cuarta edición y definitiva.
Tennis, surfing and rugby in Peru are minor but growing sports. Alejandro "Alex" Olmedo Rodríguez (March 24, 1936 – December 9, 2020) was a tennis player from Peru with American citizenship. He was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player for 1958, but as a U.S. player for 1959.[3]
The site Cerro del Gentil in the Upper Chincha Valley dates to approximately 550–200 BCE and was used to host feasts for people throughout the Paracas sphere of influence. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Though one of the smaller sites in the valley, it has still been subject to intensive research and is useful for understanding the political evolution of Paracas.
Archaeological sites in Peru are numerous and diverse, representing different aspects including temples and fortresses of the various cultures of ancient Peru, such as the Moche and Nazca. The sites vary in importance from small local sites to UNESCO World Heritage sites of global importance. [ 1 ]
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...
It is now an archeological site in the department of La Libertad five kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Trujillo, Peru. [ 2 ] Chan Chan is located in the mouth of the Moche Valley [ 3 ] and was the capital of the historical empire of the Chimor from 900 to 1470, [ 4 ] when they were defeated and incorporated into the Inca Empire . [ 5 ]
The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.
[3] John H. Rowe first described killke ceramics. These vessels are often globular with vertical strap handles and have simple linear geometric decorations of black or black-on-red over a white or buff slip. [4] It was the American archaeologist John Howland Rowe (1918–2004) who named the Killke culture. [5]