Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain
Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE·Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry·🇵🇪 La Libertad, Chicama Valley, El Brujo north, Huaca Prieta 150 × 53 m Preceramic mound, Peru
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About Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain
Huaca Prieta Bird 1947, Dillehay 2003 oldest cotton 3300 indigo. Recorded context — Period: Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE; Culture: Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry; Field status: excavated; Materials: earth mound, cotton indigo, gourd, condor ash mosaic; Condition: preserved — mound.
Why it mattersKey Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry mound with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology and phasing
- 02Function of enclosure
Theories
- 01Observatory
- 02Seasonal gathering
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3500 BCE mound start; 2500 BCE top platform
- Period
- Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE
- Culture
- Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry
- Purpose
- Preceramic cotton industrial mound (240 m × 120 m × 32 m) with indigo dyed textile oldest 1500 BCE and gourds and Condor huaca mosaic
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1867
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 200 CE major extension
Major expansion / refurbishment at Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain
1970 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain
On the ground
Structures & features
7.9240° S · 79.3050° W · 18 m · 4 mapped features
- Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — Principal Structurestructurestructure at Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — primary structure7.9251° S · 79.3052° W
- Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — Northern Complexcomplexcomplex at Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — primary structure7.9256° S · 79.3064° W
- Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — Southern Rock Artrock artrock art at Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — primary structure7.9242° S · 79.3055° W
- Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — Eastern Structurestructurestructure at Cao Temple Extension — Huaca Prieta Preceramic Mound El Brujo Plain — primary structure7.9232° S · 79.3034° W
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