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Nazca culture , south coastal Peru, 1–700 CE; Norte Chico civilization (Precolumbian culture), coastal Peru; Paiján culture, northern coastal Peru, 8700–5900 BCE; Paracas, south coastal Peru, 600–175 BCE; Recuay culture, Peru (Precolumbian culture) Tallán (Precolumbian culture), north coastal Peru; Valdivia culture, Ecuador, 3500–1800 BCE
Only a few documents were hidden and thus remain today, leaving modern historians with glimpses of ancient culture and knowledge. From both indigenous American and European accounts and documents, American civilizations at the time of European encounter possessed many impressive attributes, having populous cities, and having developed theories ...
Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. After the first humans — who were then arranged into hunter-gatherer tribal groups — arrived in South America via the Isthmus of Panama, they spread out across the continent, with the earliest evidence for settlement in the Andean region dating to circa 15,000 BCE, in what archaeologists call the Lithic Period.
Other sources indicate that the Indigenous people comprise 31% of the total population. [5] [6] In the Amazonian region, there more than 65 ethnic groups classified into 16 language families. [7] After Brazil in South America and New Guinea in Oceania, Peru is believed to have the highest number of uncontacted tribes in the world. [8]
Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, many of the indigenous peoples of South America were hunter-gatherers and indeed many still are, especially in the Amazon rainforest. Others, especially the Andean cultures , practised sophisticated agriculture, utilized advanced irrigation and kept domesticated livestock , such as llamas and ...
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what is believed to be wealthy members of the Chimu civilization, a pre-Inca society that thrived for centuries in arid plains nestled between ...
The meaning of the word Chachapoya may be derived from the Quechua sach'a phuyu (sach'a = tree, [1] phuyu = cloud [2]) meaning "cloud forest". Another possibility is that it may derive from sach'a-p-qulla ( sach'a = tree, p = of the, qulla = the name of a pre-Inca kingdom from Puno ) that the Incas used as a collective term for the many ...
The Aymara or Aimara (Aymara: aymara, listen ⓘ), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America.Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.