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Formatives in Peru · Mysteria

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Every place in the atlas labelled formatives.

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Pacopampa

Formative (Pacopampa Early–Late) · Cupisnique / Chavinoid (Northern Highlands Formative)

Mountaintop ceremonial citadel (1200–500 BCE) on 2430-m Querocoto peak with three massive platforms, sunken courts, elite shaft tomb of Priest of Pacopampa (900 BCE) with gold crow...

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Piruru

Formative to Early Intermediate · Kotosh–Chavín–Wari local (Tantamayo highland)

Formative hilltop temple-citadel (1500 BCE–1000 CE) above Tantamayo on knife-edge jalca ridgetop at 3900 m, with Kotosh-tradition rock-walled temple pyramid 15 m, sunken court, and...

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Hualcayán

Formative to Early Intermediate (Chavín–Recuay) · Chavín–Recuay (Pashash)

Valley-head platform complex (1000 BCE–600 CE) at foot of Cordillera Blanca east of Huaylas, on Hualcayán fan at 3180 m with terraced Chavínoid temple overlain by Recuay galleries,...