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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

The Chavín culture was a pre-Columbian civilization, developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru around 900 BCE, ending around 250 BCE. It extended...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

It is particularly noteworthy for being among the few Mesoamerican civilizations to use metal for tools, and even weapons. The word "Purépecha" in modern...

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

Quechua ruqru) is a hearty thick squash stew, associated with Native Andean civilizations, and popular along the Andes mountain range. It is one of the national...

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

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

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

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....

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

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

The Cupisnique culture was a pre-Columbian indigenous culture that flourished from c. 1500 to 500 BC along what now is Peru's northern Pacific coast. The...

American Civilization. New York: Avon Books. p. 297. Church, Warren B.; Von Hagen, Adriana. "Chachapoyas: Cultural Development at an Andean Cloud Forest...

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

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...

in the anthropological literature. He also esteems the article on Andean civilizations, while deeming the volume on the circum-Caribbean groups the weakest...

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

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...