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Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru

Index Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru

This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. [1]

51 relations: Amazonas before the Inca Empire, Andean civilizations, Andean preceramic, Aqueduct (water supply), Ayabaca, Buena Vista, Peru, Chachapoya culture, Chancay culture, Chanka, Chanquillo, Chavín culture, Chimú culture, Chincha culture, Chiribaya culture, Chiripa, Chucuito, Colla Kingdom, Conchucos District, Cumbemayo, Cuntis, Cupisnique, Huaca Prieta, Huanca people, Huchuy Qosqo, Ichma culture, Ilo, Peru, Inca Empire, Kotosh Religious Tradition, Las Ánimas complex, Las Haldas, Lauricocha culture, Lima culture, Lupaca, Moche culture, Nazca culture, Norte Chico civilization, Paltas Canton, Paracas culture, Peru, Puñay, Quispiguanca, Recuay culture, Sechin Alto, Sechin Bajo, Sican culture, Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, Tallán, Tiwanaku, Ventarron, Vicús culture, ..., Wari culture. Expand index (1 more) »

Amazonas before the Inca Empire

Prehistoric evidence on rocky walls includes the rock paintings of Chiñuña-Yamón and Limones-Calpón in the province of Utcubamba.

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Andean civilizations

The Andean civilizations were a patchwork of different cultures and peoples that developed from the Andes of Colombia southward down the Andes to northern Argentina and Chile, plus the coastal deserts of Peru and northern Chile.

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Andean preceramic

Andean preceramic refers to the early period of human occupation in the Andean area of South America that preceded the introduction of ceramics.

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Aqueduct (water supply)

An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to convey water.

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Ayabaca

Ayabaca is a town in the highlands of the Piura Region in northwestern Peru, near the border with Ecuador.

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Buena Vista, Peru

Buena Vista is an 8 hectare (20 acre) archaeological site located in Peru about 25 miles inland in the Chillon River Valley and an hour's drive north of Lima, the capital.

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Chachapoya culture

The Chachapoyas, also called the "Warriors of the Clouds", was a culture of Andes living in the cloud forests of the Amazonas Region of present-day Peru.

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Chancay culture

The Chancay were a pre-Columbian archeological civilization which developed between the valleys of Fortaleza, Pativilca, Supe, Huaura, Chancay, Chillón, Rimac and Lurin, on the central coast of Peru, from about CE 1000 to 1470.

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Chanka

The Chanka people (or Chanca) were a Late Intermediate (ca. 1400 CE.) ethnic group in Peru.

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Chanquillo

Chanquillo or Chankillo is an ancient monumental complex in the Peruvian coastal desert, found in the Casma-Sechin basin in the Ancash Department of Peru.

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Chavín culture

The Chavín culture is an extinct, prehistoric civilization, named for Chavín de Huantar, the principal archaeological site at which its artifacts have been found.

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Chimú culture

The Chimú culture was centered on Chimor with the capital city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo, Peru.

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Chincha culture

The Chincha culture consisted of a Native American (Indian) people living near the Pacific Ocean in southwest Peru.

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Chiribaya culture

The Chiribaya culture flourished near the coast of southern Peru and adjacent Chile from 700 CE until Spanish settlement in the late 16th century.

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Chiripa

The Chiripa culture existed between the Initial Period/Early Horizon, from 1400 to 850 BC along the southern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.

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Chucuito

Chucuito is a village in the Chucuito District, Puno Province, Peru.

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Colla Kingdom

The Colla, Qolla or Qulla Kingdom was established in the northwestern basin of the Titicaca, one of the Aymara kingdoms that occupied part of the Collao plateau after the fall of Tiwanaku.

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Conchucos District

Conchucos District is one of eleven districts of the Pallasca Province in Peru.

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Cumbemayo

Cumbemayo or Cumbe Mayo is an archaeological site located 20 kilometers southwest of the city of Cajamarca in Peru at 3,500 meters of elevation.

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Cuntis

Cuntis is a municipality of Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra.

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Cupisnique

Cupisnique was a pre-Columbian culture which flourished from ca.

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Huaca Prieta

Huaca Prieta is the site of a prehistoric settlement beside the Pacific Ocean in the Chicama Valley, just north of Trujillo, La Libertad Province, Peru.

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Huanca people

The Huancas, Wancas, or Wankas are a Quechua people living in the Junín Region of central Peru, in and around the Mantaro Valley.

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Huchuy Qosqo

Huchuy Qosqo, (also spelled Yuchuy Cuzco), is an Incan archaeological site north of Cuzco, Peru.

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Ichma culture

The Ichma or Yschma culture was a pre-Incan indigenous culture, located south of Lima, Peru in the Lurin valley; it later spread north into the Rimac valley.

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Ilo, Peru

Ilo is a port city in southern Peru, with some 67,000 inhabitants.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.

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Kotosh Religious Tradition

The Kotosh Religious Tradition is a term used by archaeologists to refer to the ritual buildings that were constructed in the mountain drainages of the Andes between circa 3000 and c.1800 BCE, during the Andean preceramic, or Late Archaic period of Andean history.

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Las Ánimas complex

Las Ánimas complex is an archaeological culture of northern Chile considered to be the immediate precursor to the Diaguita culture.

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Las Haldas

Las Haldas or Las Aldas is a large archaeological complex from before and during the initial ceramic period (1800-1000 BCE) of Peru.

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Lauricocha culture

Lauricocha culture is a sequence of preceramic cultural periods in Peru's history, spanning about 5,000 years from c. 8000 to 2500 BCE.

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Lima culture

The Lima culture was an indigenous civilization which existed in modern-day Lima, Peru during the Early Intermediate Period, extending from roughly 100 to 650.

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Lupaca

The Lupaca, Lupaka, or Lupaqa people were one of the divisions of the ancestral Aymaras.

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Moche culture

The Moche civilization (alternatively, the Mochica culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru from about 100 to 700 AD during the Regional Development Epoch.

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Nazca culture

The Nazca culture (also Nasca) was the archaeological culture that flourished from beside the arid, southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley.

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Norte Chico civilization

The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization)The name is disputed.

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Paltas Canton

Paltas is located to the south of Loja city and is one of the oldest cantons of province of the same name.

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Paracas culture

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.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Puñay

Cerro Puñay is a volcanic cone in the Chunchi Canton of Ecuador.

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Quispiguanca

Quispiguanca, also Q'espihuanca and Q'espiwanka, was a royal estate of the Inca emperor Huayna Capac (c. 1464–1525 CE).

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Recuay culture

The Recuay culture was a pre-Columbian culture of highland Peru that flourished from 200 BC to AD 600 and was related to the Moche culture of the north coast.

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Sechin Alto

Sechin Alto is a massive architectural complex in Peru belonging to the Early Formative period (2000-1500 BC).

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Sechin Bajo

Sechin Bajo is a large archaeological site with ruins dating from 3500 BCE to 1300 BCE, making it one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Western Hemisphere.

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Sican culture

This article concerns the Sican Culture of what is now Peru.

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Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Tallán

Tallán (or Tacllán, after the use of the taclla, a farming tool) was an ethnic group that settled in the plains of north-western Peru, an ethnos with a matriarchal system.

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Tiwanaku

Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia.

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Ventarron

Ventarrón is the site of a 4,500-year-old temple with painted murals, which was excavated in Peru in 2007 near Chiclayo, in the Lambayeque region on the northern coast.

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Vicús culture

Vicús culture was an important early culture in Peru from 1000/200 BCE to 300/600 CE.

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Wari culture

The Wari (Huari) were a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about AD 500 to 1000.

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Cotton Pre-Ceramic, Cultural periods of Peru, Cultural periods of peru, Early Horizon, Late Horizon, Middle Horizon, Pre-Inca cultures, Pre-Incan.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodization_of_pre-Columbian_Peru

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