believe that Andean civilizations first developed on the narrow coastal plain of the Pacific Ocean. The Caral or Norte Chico civilization of coastal Peru...

that the peoples of Andean civilizations worshipped an overarching deity. The figure may have been carved by a later civilization onto an ancient gourd...

chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilizations. The Andean civilization is one of at least five civilizations in the world deemed by scholars to...

A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations. The formation...

which is considered one of the earliest civilizations in the world. Caral is the largest recorded site in the Andean region, with dates older than 2000 BC...

sometimes it also contrasts with the cultures found within civilizations themselves. Civilizations are organized densely-populated settlements divided into...

needed]. Cultures considered Andean include: Atacama people Aymara people Muisca people or Chibcha Andean civilizations Quechua people Uru people Diaguita...

300 to 1000. Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of the most important South American civilizations before the birth of the Inca Empire in...

The Chavín culture is an extinct, pre-Columbian civilization, developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru around 900 BCE, ending around 250 BCE...

In mythology of Andean civilizations of South America, the amaru or katari (aymara) is a mythical serpent or dragon. In Inca mythology, Amaru is a huge...

the cessation of ceremonial use of the site is associated with the pan-Andean drought. Later (post-Cahuachi) Nazca society was structured in a similar...

continues to be home to indigenous peoples, some of whom built high civilizations prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 1400s and early 1500s...

lists just under 50 museums in Europe alone. Civilizations portal Entheogenics and the Maya Huastec civilization Index of Mexico-related articles Songs of...

which the Maya used in various aspects of their life. Alpacas – The Andean civilizations were among the first to domesticate alpacas. Ammassalik wooden maps...

rapid cultural development in the Andean region of Peru, which is different from the reliance of most original civilizations on cultivation of agriculture...

This is a list of pre-Columbian cultures. Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal...

H. Steward (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians Vol. 2 The Andean Civilizations (PDF). Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 183–330. Bauer, Brian...

civilizations shared the same iconography, referred to as the "Southern Andean Iconographic Series". The relationship between the two civilizations is...

Veracruz. They were the first Mesoamerican civilization and laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed. Among other "firsts", the...

or the San Jose dam, which continue to provide water, coming from the Andean region and groundwater, guaranteeing several harvests per year. Access to...

Peruvian art has its origin in the Andean civilizations. These civilizations rose in the territory of modern Peru before the arrival of the Spanish. Peru's...

The Chakana (Andean cross, "stepped cross" or "step motif" or "stepped motif") is a stepped cross motif used by the Inca and pre-incan Andean societies....

It drew upon the administrative forms and practices of previous Andean civilizations such as the Wari Empire and Tiwanaku, and had in common certain practices...

As the former nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples mixed with the complex civilizations of Mesoamerica, adopting religious and cultural practices, the foundation...

of the royal dead. The Wari Empire was a second-generation state of the Andean region; both it and Tiwanaku had been preceded by the first-generation Moche...

theory of anthropologist Michael E. Moseley and others that the earliest civilizations in Peru were based not on agriculture, but on exploitation of the rich...

This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the...

ISBN 978-0-571-20708-4. Longhena, Maria (2007). The Incas and Other Ancient Andean Civilizations. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 978-1-4351-0003-9. Nava, Pedro Sueldo...

southern Lake Titicaca Basin. Tiwanaku was one of the most significant Andean civilizations. Its influence extended into present-day Peru and Chile and lasted...

its provinces, but they often did not have formal planning as many other Andean cities did. These centers are clearly different from the architecture of...