Main article: Norte Chico civilizationThe Caral pyramids in the arid Supe Valley, some 20 km from the Pacific coast.The Norte Chico civilization (also called Caral) was a complex pre-Columbian society ...
The indigenous name of this city is Qusqu. Although it was used in Quechua, its origin has been found in the Aymara language. The word itself originated in the phrase qusqu wanka ('Rock of the owl'), ...
The area around Tiwanaku may have been inhabited as early as 1500 BC as a small agricultural village. Most research has studied the Tiwanaku IV and V periods between AD 300 and AD 1000, during which t ...
Ancient Burial Patterns of the Moche Valley, Peru. University of Texas Press, 1978.Burial Theme in Moche Iconography. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979.Ceramics of Ancient Peru. University of Cali ...
Both iconography and the finds of human skeletons in ritual contexts seem to indicate that human sacrifice played a significant part in Moche religious practices. These rites appear to have involved t ...
Moche pottery is some of the most varied in the world. The use of mold technology is evident. This would have enabled the mass production of certain forms. But Moche ceramics vary widely in shape and ...
The Chavin civilization was centered on the site of Chavin de Huantar, the religious center of the Chavin people and the capital of the Chavin culture. The temple is a massive flat-topped pyramid surr ...
The chief example of architecture is the Chavín de Huántar temple. The temple's design shows complex innovation to adapt to the highland environments of Peru. To avoid the temple's being flooded and ...
The Norte Chico civilization (also Caral or Caral-Supe civilization) was a complex pre-Columbian society that included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of n ...
The surname Bolívar derives from the Bolívar aristocrats who came from a small village in the Basque Country, Spain, called La Puebla de Bolívar. His father came from the male line of the Ardanza f ...
The earliest evidences of human presence in Peruvian territory have been dated to approximately 9,000 BC. Andean societies were based on agriculture, using techniques such as irrigation and terracing; ...
Irrigated agriculture spread southwards from the Zagros foothills with the Samara and Hadji Muhammed culture, from about 5,000 BC. Sumerian temples functioned as banks and developed the first large-sc ...
The regional toponym Mesopotamia comes from the ancient Greek root words μ?σο? (meso) "middle" and ποταμ?? (potamia) "river" and literally means "(Land) between rivers". It is used through ...
Caral was inhabited between roughly 2600 BCE and 2000 BCE, enclosing an area of more than 60 hectares. Caral was described by its excavators as the oldest urban center in the Americas, a claim that wa ...
The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four predecessor institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.On January ...
