🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Kuelap South Citadel Wall Bastion
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kuelap South Citadel Wall Bastion in Amazonas, Kuelap, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kuelap South Citadel Wall Bastion in Amazonas, Kuelap, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon · Moche (North Coast)
Moche polychrome pyramid complex (100 BCE–750 CE) with Lady of Cao tattooed queen burial and 30-m muraled Huaca.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Cuzco Sanctuary North — Cuzco (55-28) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) earthwork of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Lima Village Outer — Lima (56-47) at Lima, Peru is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic–Initial Period 3000–2500 BCE · Marañón Amazon-Andes (Jaén pre-Carral)
5300-year spiral temple in Amazonian Jaén with world's oldest cacao 5300 BP and Maltese cross hearth.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Pyramid of Ridge-Scar in Ancash, Peru is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Middle Horizon to Inca ~800–1532 CE · Collagua and Cabana then Inca
Collagua 1,000 km of canyon-edge andenería integrating amunas and qochas still irrigated.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Horizon, Paracas culture 200 BCE–100 BCE · Paracas culture, precursor to Nazca
181-m trident/cactus cut into coastal hill facing Pacific as sailors beacon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Archaic Preceramic 3000–1800 BCE, Norte Chico Caral-Supe tradition · Norte Chico (Caral-Supe, Late Preceramic)
North Platform 600 m north of main Shicras pyramid at Chancay Valley: 10 m high stepped platform 35×30 m built with shicra woven bags filled with river cobbles (ancient construction textile…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period 2500–500 BCE · Early coastal Formative
Deer-net mural 2000 BCE, oldest in Americas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Archaic–Initial 3500–1500 BCE · Casma-Sechín tradition
First Plaza 3500 BCE, Third Platform 16 m × 300 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1000–250 BCE · Kuntur Wasi tradition
Gold-temple four platforms, gold burials 800 BCE.
🇵🇪 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Cuzco Enclosure East — Cuzco (55-27) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
New Cuzco Sanctuary A — Cuzco (55-17) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) geoglyph of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Tell el-Glen in Ancash, Peru is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) tell attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
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 · Necropolis
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Easton Rock Necropolis in Ancash, Peru is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) necropolis attributed to Hellenistic culture.
