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🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Tumulus Cemetery Misc 7 — Peru Region 7 in Peru Region 7, Peru is a Bronze Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Cave Sanctuary Misc 72 — Peru Region 12 in Peru Region 12, Peru is a Neolithic hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Checta — Rock Art North Panel (Lima, Peru) in Lima, Checta, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Palaeolithic…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) · Andean Formative
Palpa — Geoglyph Ancillary Spiral North (Peru, Palpa) in Ica, Palpa, Palpa Geoglyph, Peru is a Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) geoglyph at…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Toquepala — Cave Painting North Panel (Tacna, Peru) in Tacna, Toquepala, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Toro Muerto — Ancillary Petroglyph North (Arequipa, Peru) in Arequipa, Toro Muerto, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art at…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Wiracochapampa — North Compound Wall (Huamachuco, Peru) in La Libertad, Wiracochapampa, Peru is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city at…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Huaracana — Rock Painting Ancillary Shelter North (Ayacucho, Peru) in Ayacucho, Huaracana, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (900–1470 CE) · Chimú
Adjoining Chan Chan’s outskirts three blocks from Mansiche temple in urbanization La Esmeralda, this Chimú adobe pyramid is a U-shaped two-level mass with three terraces, ramps and courtyard…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon — Gallinazo/Virú, Mochica and Wari–Huari (200 BCE–900 CE) · Virú–Gallinazo, Moche, Wari
Capital mound on south bank mid Virú River overlooking valley neck, first stratified mound excavation in Peru (Bennett 1936), defining Virú (Gallinazo) ceramic sequence underlying Moché.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (1100–1470 CE) · Chimú
North Trujillo square adobe pyramid enclosed by high double wall with 14 intact 2 m rainbow serpent (dragon) reliefs alternating with Chimú processional figures along outer wall.
🇵🇪 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 to Middle Horizon (200 BCE–600 CE) · Lima culture (Maranga complex)
Pyramidal mound within UNMSM Ciudad Universitaria fenced archaeological park belonging to Maranga complex alongside Huaca Aramburu and Huaca la Palma.
🇵🇪 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 · Pyramid
Initial Period — Sechin (2000–1500 BCE), early Moxeke–Punkuri · Sechin / Moxeke–Punkuri / Cupisnique precursor
Known locally as Punguchuco (door/hat), adobe temple pyramid in Nepeña Valley tributary before Chavín, built by Sechin culture of Casma/Nepeña interaction sphere, contemporary with Sechin Alto and…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Horizon, Wari Empire (600–900 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Dramatic ridge mound 4 km from sea, long known as Castillo, surprising 2013 discovery by Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimentel of intact Wari royal burial complex sealed beneath 5 tons of rubble — first…
🇵🇪 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 Intermediate (Chincha, 1000–1470 CE) · Chincha
Secondary adobe mound 7 km north-east of La Centinela in Chincha Valley interior, surveyed by Wallace 1957 and Sandweiss 2010 as part of 50-mound Chincha hierarchical pyramid system feeding Centinela…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Intermediate Moche 100–700 CE (Sipán tombs 100–300 CE Early Moche, late tombs to 700) · Moche (Mochica, north coast of Peru)
Moche necropolis-platform complex (100–700 CE) with two adobe pyramids (Huaca Rajada 10 m and Huaca de la Raya) covering 10 elite tombs – crowning discovery of 1987 Lord of Sipán (Señor de Sipán,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Quarry
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Port Playa Quarry in Ancash, Peru is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) quarry attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca · Sican Lambayeque → Chimú
Túcume (Valley of Pyramids) in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca pyramid attributed to Sican Lambayeque → Chimú culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Upper Lima Ridge East — Lima (56-08) at Lima, Peru is a Iron Age (regional) earthwork of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Lima Platform Inner — Lima (56-14) at Lima, Peru is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for platform and associated settlement.
