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🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic / Cotton Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) · Andean Late Preceramic (Norte Chico–Chillón tradition, El Paraíso)
Late Preceramic mega-complex (3500–1800 BCE) in Chillón Valley, 58 ha, 11 pyramids, largest 100×100 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Preceramic to Initial Period (5500–1800 BCE), Kotosh tradition overlap · Preceramic Chicama (Huaca Prieta–El Paraíso)
Blackish ash mound north of Chicama mouth forming 14 m Junius Bird 1946 stratigraphic cut that defined Andean Preceramic sequence — preceramic houses with stone-lined pits, twined cotton textiles…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Moche (100–800 CE, peak Moche III–IV 400–600 CE) · Moche (Mochica, north coast, Moche Valley capital)
Largest adobe structure in Americas: Huaca del Sol (Moche 100–800 CE, peak 400–600 CE) 342×159 m base, 41 m high preserved (original maybe 50 m) with four stepped platforms, built in ~140 million…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Initial Period to Early Horizon (1200–400 BCE) · Marañón–Kotosh tradition / early Chavín sphere
Isolated hill-top mound on continental divide crest above Upper Marañón near Singa, Huánuco, forming Marañón basin response to Kotosh tradition contemporaneous with Kotosh–Huaricoto development 50 km…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic to Initial Period (Kotosh–Mito tradition) · Kotosh / highland Áncash (Mito tradition)
Kotosh-tradition dual pyramid at La Galgada — twin U-platform pyramids 30 m with niched temple 2200–1000 BCE and textile tombs, Tablachaca canyon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Cotton Preceramic / Norte Chico fringe) · Cotton Preceramic coastal fishers (Bandurria culture)
Late Preceramic beach pyramid Bandurria (3500–1800 BCE): circular Mound 4 30 m ashlar pyramid with shicra fill alongside fishing nets — coastal parallel to Caral.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (Casma/Sechin, 1800–900 BCE, peak 1500 BCE) · Casma–Sechin culture (Initial Period, Casma Valley)
Largest Formative Period platform in Americas (1800–900 BCE, Initial Period peak 1500 BCE): principal mound 300×250 m base, 44 m high with two lateral broad platforms forming U around plaza 300×250 m…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico Supe) · Caral-Supe culture (Norte Chico)
Supe mouth fishing-pyramid town Áspero (3000–1800 BCE): six low shicra-bag pyramids (Huaca Alta 10 m, Huaca de los Sacrificios with D-shaped offering) maritime twin of Caral.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico late) · Cotton Preceramic / Andean late hunter-gatherer-fishers
Late Preceramic mega-pyramid El Paraíso (Chuquitanta) 3500–1800 BCE: 58 ha cotton-preceramic city, Unit I 45×45 m shicra-bag pampas pyramid — largest Preceramic pyramid Americas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon, c.200 BCE–600 CE (Lima / Pinazo) · Andean (Lima / Pinazo)
Huaca Huallamarca (originally Pancho Fierro) in San Isidro, Lima: truncated adobe pyramid 85×70 m base, 20 m high, with interior ramps and courts.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, c.1100-1530 CE (Lambayeque / Sicán–Chimú) · Andean (Lambayeque / Sicán)
Túcume (ancient Tucume, El Purgatorio) Lambayeque: 26-pyramid field dominated by Huaca Larga (700 m long, 280 m wide, 30 m high) — one of largest adobe pyramids globally, built by Lambayeque/Sicán…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic, c.3500-1800 BCE (Norte Chico–Central Coast) · Andean (Preceramic / Norte Chico)
El Paraíso at Chuquitanta north Lima (Chillón Valley): enormous preceramic monumental center 58 ha, 12 pyramids aligned north-south. Unit I principal pyramid 200×150 m, 10 m high.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Moche (100–800 CE, six building phases A–F, peak 400–650 CE) · Moche (Mochica, ceremonial counterpart to Del Sol administrative)
Ceremonial Moche pyramid (100–800 CE, 45×38 m 21 m high with six construction phases superpositioned — temple buried inside temple) at Cerro Blanco base opposite Del Sol.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Lima pyramid (300–600 CE), Middle Horizon Wari cemetery (600–800 CE), Late Intermediate Ychsma/Inca shrine (1000–1500 CE) · Lima / Wari / Ychsma–Inca (triple palimpsest)
Triple-use huaca in San Isidro central Lima: truncated adobe pyramid 85×65 m 25 m high (Lima culture 300–600 CE sand-and-adobe) over Preceramic midden, with Middle Horizon Wari cemetery (600–800 CE)…
🇵🇪 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period to Early Horizon (2200–800 BCE) · Andean Initial Period (Rímac tradition, pre-Chavín)
Initial Period U-shaped pyramid 11 km up Rímac Valley (c.1500 BCE, 17 m high, 500 m arms).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period to Early Horizon (Kotosh–Chavín) · Kotosh / Chavín (highland)
Highland ceremonial mound at Huaricoto — 30 m Kotosh-Chavín temple c.2100–500 BCE with hearth chambers, earliest Callejón de Huaylas cult center.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period, c.1800-1000 BCE (Sechín–Casma) · Andean (Casma–Sechín)
Sechín Alto in Casma Valley (Ancash): huge U-shaped platform compound 300×250 m, 44 m high, with atrium and sunken courts. Excavated by Julio C.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán to Late Sicán (Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque (Moche descendant)
Sicán capital Batán Grande (800–1375 CE): 20 adobe pyramids (Huaca Loro 20 m with Lord of Sicán 2 kg gold mask and 22 sacrifices) in dry forest world-heritage necropolis.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Horizon, c.600-750 CE (Mochica V / Sicán early) · Andean (Mochica / Sicán)
Pampa Grande Huaca Fortaleza in Chongoyape (Lambayeque): massive stepped pyramid 56 m high, 270×180 m base, with plaza, palace and reservoir.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (Sechín–Casma) · Sechín / Casma
Sechín polity satellite mound at Sechín Norte — 25 m adobe pyramid 6 m high c.1500 BCE, 2 km north of Cerro Sechín relief walls.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate (Sicán/Lambayeque 1100–1375 CE, Chimú 1375–1470 CE, Inca 1470–1532 CE) · Lambayeque (Sicán) / Chimú / Inca (La Leche Valley)
Largest adobe pyramid of Lambayeque–Chimú complex at Túcume (26 huacas, 220 ha): Huaca Larga 700 m long, 280 m wide, 30 m high truncated adobe mass with two joined platforms (Larga and central mound)…
🇵🇪 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 · Tell
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (c.1000-1532 CE) · Andean Late Intermediate-Late Horizon (Wari–Inca)
Yachaymarca (Yachay Marca) — buried late tell/village at Ancash Region.
