believe that Andean civilizations first developed on the narrow coastal plain of the Pacific Ocean. The Caral or Norte Chico civilization of coastal Peru... 34 KB (3,936 words) - 12:31, 25 March 2024 |
that the peoples of Andean civilizations worshipped an overarching deity. The figure may have been carved by a later civilization onto an ancient gourd... 48 KB (5,773 words) - 03:22, 22 April 2024 |
Inca Empire (redirect from Andean Peoples) 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... 97 KB (11,498 words) - 13:41, 20 April 2024 |
Caral (category Andean civilizations) 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... 19 KB (2,196 words) - 19:13, 1 April 2024 |
needed]. Cultures considered Andean include: Atacama people Aymara people Muisca people or Chibcha Andean civilizations Quechua people Uru people Diaguita... 1 KB (178 words) - 18:48, 12 July 2023 |
Chavín culture (redirect from Chavín civilization) The Chavín culture is an extinct, pre-Columbian civilization, developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru around 900 BCE, ending around 250 BCE... 47 KB (6,113 words) - 22:23, 20 March 2024 |
Pre-Columbian era (redirect from Pre-Columbian Civilizations) 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... 89 KB (9,869 words) - 22:38, 23 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (600 words) - 12:23, 19 March 2024 |
History of South America (section Andean civilizations) 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... 107 KB (10,856 words) - 14:04, 28 April 2024 |
Nazca culture (redirect from Nazca civilization) 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... 35 KB (4,604 words) - 14:10, 21 April 2024 |
List of pre-Columbian cultures (redirect from Ancient American civilizations) This is a list of pre-Columbian cultures. Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal... 15 KB (1,076 words) - 13:41, 19 March 2024 |
civilizations shared the same iconography, referred to as the "Southern Andean Iconographic Series". The relationship between the two civilizations is... 43 KB (4,938 words) - 12:26, 14 March 2024 |
Religion in the Inca Empire (redirect from Andean religion) H. Steward (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians Vol. 2 The Andean Civilizations (PDF). Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 183–330. Bauer, Brian... 29 KB (4,057 words) - 20:09, 18 March 2024 |
which the Maya used in various aspects of their life. Alpacas – The Andean civilizations were among the first to domesticate alpacas. Ammassalik wooden maps... 59 KB (7,334 words) - 09:24, 23 April 2024 |
Huaricanga (category Andean civilizations) rapid cultural development in the Andean region of Peru, which is different from the reliance of most original civilizations on cultivation of agriculture... 8 KB (1,077 words) - 08:35, 6 April 2024 |
Olmecs (redirect from Olmec civilization) Veracruz. They were the first Mesoamerican civilization and laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed. Among other "firsts", the... 78 KB (9,176 words) - 20:42, 17 April 2024 |
Moche culture (redirect from Moche civilization) or the San Jose dam, which continue to provide water, coming from the Andean region and groundwater, guaranteeing several harvests per year. Access to... 49 KB (5,802 words) - 17:05, 17 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,068 words) - 19:53, 8 March 2024 |
Chakana (section Andean cross with central eye motif) 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.... 8 KB (1,036 words) - 03:12, 7 February 2024 |
Government of the Inca Empire (category Andean civilizations) 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... 28 KB (3,340 words) - 02:38, 9 April 2024 |
Aztecs (redirect from Aztec civilizations) As the former nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples mixed with the complex civilizations of Mesoamerica, adopting religious and cultural practices, the foundation... 169 KB (21,032 words) - 16:51, 28 April 2024 |
Sechin Bajo (category Andean civilizations) 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... 10 KB (1,329 words) - 19:38, 19 November 2023 |
Machu Picchu (category 15th-century establishments in the Inca civilization) 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... 85 KB (9,110 words) - 22:22, 29 April 2024 |
Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru (category Andean civilizations) 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... 5 KB (195 words) - 23:04, 17 April 2024 |
Wari Empire (category Andean civilizations) 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... 7 KB (762 words) - 13:12, 15 December 2023 |
Tiwanaku Empire (category Andean civilizations) southern Lake Titicaca Basin. Tiwanaku was one of the most significant Andean civilizations. Its influence extended into present-day Peru and Chile and lasted... 37 KB (4,809 words) - 19:25, 11 March 2024 |
Wari culture (category Andean civilizations) 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... 19 KB (2,136 words) - 16:12, 6 February 2024 |