🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Harappan Pyramid — Huanuco Annex 396
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan pyramid at Huanuco.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan pyramid at Huanuco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Moche Sipan Huaca Rajada South Adobe Mass in Lambayeque, Huaca Rajada, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Wari–Late Intermediate–Inca · Wari–Ychsma with modern megalith folklore
Mythic paramo stone forest (4000 m) 8 km trek from San Pedro de Casta east of Lima, with 40 natural granite monoliths anthropomorphized (Monument of Humanity 25 m, Face of Man 8 m,...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate, c.400-600 CE (Moche / Mochica) · Andean (Moche)
Huaca del Sol at Moche (Huacas de Moche archaeological complex) 5 km south Trujillo: enormous adobe pyramid 340×136 m base, 41 m high, built with 140 million adobes each marked by labor gang (ayllu)…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–800 BCE) · Casma Las Haldas culture / Initial Coastal
Pacific-terrace Initial Period city Las Haldas (1800–1000 BCE): 20 m stone central pyramid with 300×200 m plazas on 30 m marine terrace above sea, coastal Initial tradition without ceramics.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon — Ychsma (1100–1450 CE) then Inca (1450–1532 CE) · Ychsma (Ichma) then Inca
Island of five pyramids in dense Breña–Cercado between avenues Mariano Cornejo and Tingo María, Lima’s most important Ichma centre later co-opted as Inca provincial capital of the Chillón–Rimac…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Formative to Early Intermediate (Chavín–Recuay) · Chavín–Recuay (Pashash)
Valley-head platform complex (1000 BCE–600 CE) at foot of Cordillera Blanca east of Huaylas, on Hualcayán fan at 3180 m with terraced Chavínoid temple overlain by Recuay galleries,...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Lima (200–700 CE) with Middle Horizon Wari intrusive 500–700 CE · Lima (Ichma predecessor of Pachacamac) with Huari (Wari) superstructure
Seven-storey adobe pyramid (500×100 m, 25 m high) in Miraflores, Lima, built bookcase-style (small vertical adobe bricks placed on edge like books) to resist earthquakes, with Wari cemetery above.
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Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1440–1532 CE, ushnu 1450–1480) · Inca (Pachacuti / Topa Inca – Vilcas province)
Imperial Inca stepped pyramid-ushnu (1450–1530, Pachacuti foundation) at center of Inca provincial capital Vilcashuamán (Vilcas, 22 sq km Inca city, 700+ buildings): Ushnu 30×30 m base 12 m high…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom; Moche
Huaca del Sol — Ancillary Platform North (Moche) in La Libertad, Moche, Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyrami…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Caral — North Pyramid Ancillary Plaza Amphitheater (Supe) in Lima, Barranca, Caral, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to O…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Archaic (Norte Chico) · Norte Chico (Caral-Supe sphere)
Late Archaic platform (2600–2000 BCE) in Huaral piedmont on south cone of Caral sphere, with 8-m truncated shicra-fill pyramid, central atrium, sunken circular court and lateral pl...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Lima to Wari (400–700 CE Lima culture coastal pyramid 100 m × 53 m × 22 m with 600,000 reused small adobitos 'library' of bricks) · Lima culture (Pucllana 400–830) then Wari intrusive 700
Pucllana excavated by Flores 1980–, 600k adobitos library pyramid.
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Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Chimú (1100–1470 CE border fortress 30 m high pyramidal fortress) later Inca 1470 reused · Chimú border fort vs Chancay/Inca; Inca reused as border 1470
Paramonga fort excavated by Cieza and Middendorf.
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Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Harbour Mole Submerged Pyramid 104 — Peru Region 8 in Peru Region 8, Peru is a Bronze Age pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
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Moche Late (600–750 CE Transitional Moche V state, crucial 2012 Pampa Grande polity) · Late Moche → Wari overlap 750 collapse
Pampa Grande excavated by Shimada— 600–750 Moche V large city border.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán (Lambayeque), c.750–1050 CE, peak 900–1050 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Huaca La Merced (Huaca Sialupe) in Batan Grande — Sicán capital pyramid (c.750–1050 CE, Middle Sicán).
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
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Early Horizon · Andean
Coastal satellite of Caral at Aspero (Huaca Alta) Late Preceramic 120×30 m platform mound, Nishiwaki.
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Late Archaic / Norte Chico · Caral-Supe / Norte Chico
Oldest city in Americas and largest Late Archaic New World pyramids (c.2600 BCE) – six truncated earthen pyramids with sunken plazas, residential sectors and early quipu and flutes in Supe Valley,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial to Early Formative (Bagua-Jaén, Bracamoros) · Bagua-Jaén / Bracamoros culture (Marañón)
Jaén valley mound cluster Huaca La Ventilla (1500–500 BCE) near Montegrande: 40×40 m 15 m adobe-cobble pyramid — Bagua-Jaén phase dense temple field in upper Marañón.
