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    archaeological site for the Chavín culture is Chavín de Huántar, located in the Andean highlands of the present-day Ancash Region. Although Chavín de Huántar may or...
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    Museo de la Nación in Lima and the Museo Nacional de Chavín in Chavín itself. Occupation at Chavín de Huántar has been carbon-dated to at least 3000 BC...
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    country. The Chavín culture has very distinctive art styles, particularly in effigy pots, a number of which were in feline shapes. Chavin de Huantar was...
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    and influenced by the Chavín culture given the presence of chavinoid features. The Paracas emerged separate from the Chavín culture and decidedly included...
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    Raimondi Stele (category Chavin culture)
    significant piece of art of the Chavín culture of the central Andes in present-day Peru. The Chavín were named after Chavín de Huantar, the main structure...
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    Question 2017 social unrest in French Guiana c. 900 BCE — c. 200 BCE Chavín culture c. 500 — c. 1100 CE Wari Empire c. 1230 Sinchi Roca, the second Sapa...
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  • chavin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chavin may refer to: Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site in Peru built by the Chavín culture Chavín District...
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    techniques at least in part to the influences of the Chavín culture that preceded them. Like the artists of Chavín, they mostly used alloys that contained some...
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    Stela of the cactus bearer (category Chavin culture)
    a monolith or stele of a single piece of granite, belonging to the Chavín culture of ancient Peru, which remains in its original location on the northwest...
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    Lanzón (category Chavin culture)
    associated with the Chavín culture. It is located in the Old Temple of Chavin de Huantar which rests in the central highlands of Peru. The Chavín religion was...
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    particular, laid down the groundwork for the rise of the Chavín culture. The Chavín culture dominated the central Andes during the First Horizon, beginning...
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    The Nazca culture (also Nasca) was the archaeological culture that flourished from c. 100 BC to 800 AD beside the arid, southern coast of Peru in the...
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    and the Maya and Zapotec civilizations emerge in Mesoamerica. The Chavín culture flourishes in Peru. The first millennium BC is the formative period...
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    in some cultures of this region due to the Amazonian influence during the Early Horizon and Early Intermediate, such as the Chavín culture or the commercial...
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    Kotosh Period culture stratum was situated directly beneath the Chavín culture stratum. Some Kotosh elements show links with the Chavín culture. For example;...
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    Peru (section Culture)
    Chavín de Huantar. After the decline of the Chavin culture around the beginning of the 1st century CE, a series of localized and specialized cultures...
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    societies in the Peruvian region by more than one thousand years. The Chavín culture, c. 900 BC, had previously been considered the first civilization of...
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    is an archaeological culture of Ancient Peru that developed in the coastal area of Ancash and La Libertad. When the Chavín culture declined, on the north...
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    the artists of the Chavín culture of the central Andes about two thousand years ago. An example of this technique from the Chavín is the Raimondi Stela...
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    Cimora (category Chavin culture)
    history, with historical references to the San Pedro Cactus in early Chavín culture dating as far back as 200 BC. In fact, Dobkin De Rios argues that the...
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    area is very close to the area of the earlier Chavín culture. The important site of the latter, Chavin de Huantar, lies just to the west. Recuay people...
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  • Chavín de Huantar. They identified within the site held the same resonance produced by pututu shells (also used as instruments in the Chavín culture)...
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    time, such as Chavín culture, lasting from 900 BC to 200 BC, Paracas culture, lasting from 800 BC to 200 BC, its successor Nazca culture, lasting from...
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    Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello at the Chavín culture site of Chavín de Huántar. Construction of Chavín de Huántar began around 1200 BCE and the site...
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    spread to the Andean culture region around 2000 BC. The next major civilization to arise in the Andes would be the Chavín culture at Chavín de Huantar, located...
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    Cupisnique (category Cupisnique culture)
    clay architecture. Artifacts of the culture share artistic styles and religious symbols with the Chavin culture that arose in the same area at a later...
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    Horizon period starts in the Andes. c. 1000 BC—Chavin culture starts in the Andes. c. 1000 BC—Paracas culture starts in the Andes. c. 1000 BC—Historical beginning...
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    figure prominently in the art of the pre-Incan Chavín culture, as can be seen at the type-site of Chavín de Huántar in Peru. In Chile the Mapuche mythology...
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    evidence of use going back two thousand years, to Moche culture, Nazca culture, and Chavín culture. Although Roman Catholic church authorities[who?] after...
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  • the Huarochirí Manuscript, and in pre-Inca cultures including Chavín, Paracas, Moche, and the Nazca culture. The mythology informed and supported Inca...
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