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The face of a snarling feline decorates the side of the vessel chamber, directly under the whistle spout. [ 1 ] The Paracas culture was an Andean society existing between approximately 800 BCE and 100 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management and that made significant contributions in the textile arts.
Cerro Sechín (also Sechín de las Estelas) is an archaeological site in Casma Province of Ancash Region in northern Peru. Dating to 1600 BC, the site was discovered by Peruvian archaeologists Julio C. Tello and Toribio Mejía Xesspe on July 1, 1937. Tello believed it was the capital of an entire culture, now known as the Casma/Sechin culture ...
Machu Picchu[ a ] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [ 9 ] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [ 10 ] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [ 11 ] above the ...
Moche, Lima, Nazca. The Chavín culture was a pre-Columbian civilization, developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru around 900 BCE, ending around 250 BCE. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the Peruvian coast. [1][2] The Chavín people (whose name for themselves is unknown) were located in the Mosna Valley where the ...
The Nazca culture (also Nasca) was the archaeological culture that flourished from c.100 BC to 800 AD beside the arid, southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley. [ 1 ] Strongly influenced by the preceding Paracas culture, [ 2 ] which was known for extremely complex textiles, the Nazca ...
The Cupisnique culture was a pre-Columbian indigenous culture that flourished from c. 1500 to 500 BC [1] along what now is Peru's northern Pacific coast. The culture had a distinctive style of adobe clay architecture. [2] Artifacts of the culture share artistic styles and religious symbols with the Chavin culture that arose in the same area at ...
The Inca Empire and its road system encompassed most of the Andean civilization. The Andean civilizations were South American complex societies of many indigenous people. [1] They stretched down the spine of the Andes for 4,000 km (2,500 mi) from southern Colombia, to Ecuador and Peru, including the deserts of coastal Peru, to north Chile and ...
Peru's cultural heritage originates from the ancient Andean civilizations that emerged in its territory before the arrival of the Spanish. [ 16 ] The archaeological treasures of Peru testify to a significant cultural development that occurred without contact with other extracontinental cultures.