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Wari culture

Index 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. [1]

33 relations: Andes, Ayacucho, Ñawpa Pacha, Brooklyn Museum, Cerro Pátapo ruins, Chiclayo, Chimú culture, Choquepuquio, Cusco, El Castillo de Huarmey, Huari (archaeological site), Huari, Peru, Inca Empire, Judith H. Dobrzynski, Lake Titicaca, Moche culture, Moquegua, Oracle, Pachacamac, Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru, Peru, Pikillaqta, Pocra culture, Puquina language, Staff God, Street network, Terrace (agriculture), Tie-dye, Tiwanaku, Tiwanaku empire, Wari Empire, Wig, Willkawayin.

Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Ayacucho

Ayacucho (Ayacuchu), is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.

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Ñawpa Pacha

Ñawpa Pacha, Journal of Andean Archaeology is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Institute of Andean Studies (Berkeley, California).

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Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Cerro Pátapo ruins

The Cerro Pátapo ruins or Northern Wari ruins are the remains of an entire prehistoric city relatively near the site of present-day Chiclayo, Peru.

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Chiclayo

Chiclayo is the principal city of the Lambayeque region in northern Peru.

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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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Choquepuquio

Choquepuquio (possibly from Quechua chuqi metal, gold (Ludovico Bertonio, Aymara-Spanish dictionary (transcription): Chuqi - Oro, el mas rico metal. is an ancient Wari site in Peru in the valley of Cusco. These extensive ruins are situated in the Quispicanchi Province, Lucre District, near the village of Huacarpay and the homonymous lake. The site dates back to c. 400 BC and lasted into the Colonial Period before its abandonment around 1530 BCE.

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Cusco

Cusco (Cuzco,; Qusqu or Qosqo), often spelled Cuzco, is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range.

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El Castillo de Huarmey

El Castillo de Huarmey (English: "the Castle on the River Huarmey") is a pyramid mausoleum on the coast of Peru, in the Ancash Region north of Lima which was discovered in an undisturbed condition.

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Huari (archaeological site)

Huari or Wari is located near Quinua, in Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru at an altitude 2770 m above sea-level.

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Huari, Peru

Huari is a small town in the Ancash Region in central Peru.

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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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Judith H. Dobrzynski

Judith Helen Dobrzynski (born March 8, 1949) is an American journalist and instructor in journalism.

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Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large, deep lake in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru.

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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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Moquegua

Moquegua (founded by the Spanish colonists as Villa de Santa Catalina de Guadalcázar del Valle de Moquegua) is a city in southern Peru, located in the Moquegua Region, of which it is the capital.

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Oracle

In classical antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the god.

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Pachacamac

Pachacamac (Pachakamaq) is an archaeological site southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River.

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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.

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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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Pikillaqta

Pikillaqta (Quechua piki flea, llaqta a place (village, town, community, country, nation), "flea place", also spelled Piki Llacta, Pikillacta, Piquillacta, Piquillaqta) is a large Wari culture archaeological site east of Cusco in the Quispicanchi Province.

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Pocra culture

Pocras (called Pacora and Pocora in colonial documentation) were the ancient Wari culture (Huari) inhabitants of the modern-day city of Huamanga, Peru before the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, bounded on the northwest by the Warivilcas, and on the southeast by the Rucanas and the Soras and on the east by the Mayonmarka near the Andahuaylas in La Mar (Chungui) in the current Peruvian province of Ayacucho.

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Puquina language

Puquina (or Pukina) is an extinct language once spoken by a native ethnic group in the region surrounding Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia) and in the north of Chile.

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Staff God

The Staff God is a major deity in Andean cultures.

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Street network

A street network is a system of interconnecting lines and points (called edges and nodes in network science) that represent a system of streets or roads for a given area.

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Terrace (agriculture)

In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming.

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Tie-dye

Tie-dye is a modern term invented in the mid-1960s in the United States (but recorded in writing in an earlier form in 1941 as "tied-and-dyed", and 1909 as "tied and dyed" by Charles E. Pellew, referenced below) for a set of ancient resist-dyeing techniques, and for the products of these processes.

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Tiwanaku

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

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Tiwanaku empire

The Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) state was a Pre-Columbian polity based in the city of Tiwanaku in western Bolivia that extended around Lake Titicaca and into present-day Peru and Chile from 300 to 1150.

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Wari Empire

The Wari Empire was a political formation that emerged around AD 600 in the central highlands of Peru and lasted for about 500 years, to 1100 AD.

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Wig

A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber.

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Willkawayin

Willkawayin (Quechua willka grandchild / great-grandson / lineage / minor god in the Inca culture, an image of the Willkanuta valley worshipped as God / holy, sacred, divine, willka or wilka Anadenanthera colubrina (a tree),Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary): willka - s. Hist. Idolo de este nombre. Icono o imagen que representaba la divinidad tutelar del valle que se extiende desde lo que hoy es La Raya –línea divisoria entre Cusco y Puno– hasta la montaña misma. (J.L.P.) || Apellido de origen inkaico. / s. Biznieto o biznieta. SINÓN: haway. || Linaje. || adj. Sagrado, divino, sacro. Ancash Quechua wayi house, -n a suffix, hispanicized and mixed spellings Huilcahuain, Huilcahuaín, Huillcahuain, Wilkawain, Willcahuaín, Willcawain, Willkawain) is an archaeological site in Peru.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wari_culture

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