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Tagscasma-sechin
4 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic to Initial Period (Casma-Sechin) · Casma-Sechin culture (Preceramic/Initial)
Earliest adobe temple pyramid Sechín Bajo (3500–1800 BCE) Casma: 39×39 m two-storey 18 m pyramid with 3500 BCE fanged frieze — among oldest Andean monumental architecture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (Early Formative) · Casma–Sechín (Las Haldas coastal)
Arid coastal initial pyramid center (1800–1000 BCE) on dune 20 km south of Casma at 35 m above Samanco Bay, with four sequential sunken circular/plaza courts descending to Main Mou...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period 2200–1000 BCE, Sechín-Casma tradition · Casma-Sechín (Initial Period)
Secondary platform south of main Las Haldas pyramid on coastal terrace 20 m above Pacific tidal flat: 9 m high stepped platform 40×35 m with plastered stair facing sea, contemporary with Sechín Bajo…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Archaic–Initial 3500–1500 BCE · Casma-Sechín tradition
First Plaza 3500 BCE, Third Platform 16 m × 300 m.
