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Tagspreceramic
9 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Preceramic – Initial Period (c.3500–1200 BCE) Andes · Norte Chico – Chavín-related Late Preceramic
Buena Vista in the middle Chillón Valley is a Late Preceramic fox-temple pyramid famous for its precocious solstice astronomy.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic – Initial Period (c.2500–1000 BCE) – Casma-Sechín · Casma-Sechín (Preceramic to Initial)
Las Aldas is a monumental U-shaped temple-plaza on a coastal eolian terrace at Casma, Ancash, at 30 m above the Pacific.
🇵🇪 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
Late Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE, peak 2200–1800 BCE, Cotton Preceramic) · Late Preceramic (Chillon Valley, pre-Carral, Andean initial urbanism)
Largest Late Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE, peak 2200–2000 BCE) architectural complex on Central Coast: 14 structures (huacas) over 47–58 ha in Chillon Valley 2 km from Pacific.
🇵🇪 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
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 · Mound
Lithic to Preceramic 14500 BP–2000 BCE, monumental mound 3500–1800 BCE (Huaca Prieta period) · Preceramic Chicama (Huaca Prieta period) to Cupisnique-Chavín
Compact mound-midden 12 m high 150×50 m 3 km north of Chicama River mouth beside Pacific: stratified 14.5 ka Lithic to Preceramic sequence with temple platform atop midden, preserving world's oldest…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
